Eco-friendly crafts for kids: toothpaste boat

Childrens environmentally friendly crafts - toothpasteBoat1

Childrens environmentally friendly crafts - toothpaste boat 2

Childrens environmentally friendly crafts - toothpaste boat 3

When you buy toothpaste, the toothpaste box is usually thrown away as garbage. However, children can use the toothpaste box to make a small toothpaste boat, which would look amazing on the desk. When the weather is nice, you can go to the river and try sailing. Maybe you will actually sail away!

1. Prepare various materials and tools in place.
2. Draw diagonal lines on both ends of the toothpaste box and cut along the lines.
3. Glue the toothpaste box firmly with transparent glue as shown in the picture, and the boat body is ready.
4. Use the same method to cut both sides of the small toothpaste box into a ladder shape.
5. Make it look like a cabin.
6. Then put the hull and cabin together.
7. Use acrylic paint to color the hull.
8. Apply it once, then apply it again after it dries. The color will be more even.
9. Use a needle to drill a row of holes on both sides of the hull.
10. Then putInsert short toothpicks to create railings.
11. Take a paper cup and cut off the mouth of the cup as shown in the picture to make a sail.
12. Sew the sail to the straw with needle and thread. Insert a toothpick in the center of the hull, then insert the straw, and the mast and sail are complete.
13. Cut an anchor out of colored paper and connect it to the boat body with a thread.
14. Cut the paper into thin strips and paste them on the toothpick railing.
15. You can also cut human shapes out of colored paper and let them stand on the boat.
16. Cut out waves from colored paper and paste them on the hull.
17. The sailing boat is completed.
This is a ship made in the same way.