DIY bottle ship
If someone is looking for a craft idea for children's birthdays, here comes one: Make Buddelschiffe! An age limit, I can only deliver from my field of experience: even 4-year-olds have enough dexterity, 6-10-year-olds put in a lot of imagination and from 11 (especially boys!) Is also the researcher and architectural urge through - and comes in adulthood the enthusiasm at the latest.
There are some preparations to make:
1-2 sharp kitchen knives, kitchen board as a cutting and crafting pad
many corks
many Hipp-glasses with lid (or similarly shaped - from labels previously released!)
colored plasticine - a lot of blue, less yellow and white
many toothpicks
colored and / or white paper for the sails
scissors
small stones
Tesak crepe or superglue
small cardboard pieces in the height of the glass
The corks are halved lengthwise with the sharp knife so that two hulls are created per cork. Cut the bow of the ship through two more oblique cuts at the front. (This can be prepared well, then no child needs to take the sheep knife in hand.)
Now the toothpicks (ship masts) can already be cut or broken to a uniform length. A toothpick inserted into the cork half must fit upright in one of the lying glasses.
From the paper small sailors are cut, four- or triangular, at will, which are then punctured above and below and bepiekstst the toothpick, that a vaulted sailor arises. Now the sailmast with the pointed side is inserted into the cork half. If you want, you can stick a small flag (made of paper or plasticine) on top of the mast with a lot of sensitivity.
Now the glass is prepared. It must be clean and without a label and have an opening (with a lid) that is almost as big as the glass diameter.
So that the lying glass does not roll away, it is stuck on a cardboard strip. In the glass is now pressed from the colored clay a background. Yellow clay for the sand, blue for the water and white for the surf or tiny whitecaps. A few pebbles can be pushed in at the edge, before the ship enters the opening carefully. Now the ship is pressed into the clay, if it does not hold up, you can help with some glue.
Then only the lid is screwed on it and the first ship is ready!
The whole thing is a lot of fun, the bigger boys (even 13-year-olds) came to my best and made one ship after another. The colors of the favorite club were the hit and the most beautiful building was awarded a three-master!
On Sunday I have the next bottle ship action, then I also provide a photo for illustration. Now you have to make do with my drawing first.
