Monday Fun Day ~ Float A Boat

A rainy day needs some rainy day activities! We weren't able to attend stroller strides this morning due to the rain, so we stayed in our jammies and started our day with our 'Float A Boat' activity!  I had a cardboard container that was left over from grocery shopping (I think tomatoes came in it).  We covered the boat with packaging tape to seal the cardboard in.  That was it!  Sometimes simple is best!  We could have decorated the cardboard first, but we were more interested in seeing if our boat was going to float and how much it could hold!  

Logan helped place the tape on the boat

Logan placing pegs in the boat

 Once we had our boat it was time to set sail!  This activity would work well in the bathtub, but I didn't want to have the babe get in the bath this morning and leaning over the water in the tub is a recipe for disaster.  Logan gets really excited and three times I have had to catch him so he didn't take a dive into the water.  So we got a small tub and filled it with water on the kitchen floor.  We placed the boat in the water.  It floats!  Excellent! I know in the picture it looks like the boat is touching the edge of the tub but it wasn't.  Next we placed items in the boat to see how much it could hold.  We used a few bath toys, some light weight toys from the toy box and then we used some pegs.  We kept piling pegs in the boat and it was able to hold them all!  We even got a little water in the boat and it still floated!

This activity was a lot of fun and Logan really enjoys his boat.  He has been carrying it around since we made it!  Clean up is super simple too!  I did have to wipe water off the floor that the boy splashed out of the bucket, but hey, he had fun and that's the whole point of doing these activities! We may have to try other cardboard containers that we obtain.  It would be interesting to see what shapes will float and which will not etc.

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