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1. Write your own exploration journal!
2. Go on a walk and see how many
"discoveries" you can make.
3. Take a field trip to a boat yard.
4. Talk about Christopher Columbus and what he did.
5. Ask the kids if any of them have ever been on a boat.
Mayflower Ship Craft
Materials Needed:
Construction Paper
Styrofoam Meat Tray
Straw
Glue
Instructions:
Using brown construction paper cut out two boat
shapes. Make the bottom flat. Glue the two shapes
together along the sides.
Cover the top of the styrofoam meat tray with blue
construction paper so it looks like water. Glue you
boat shape in the middle of the styrofoam meat tray.
Cut 2 triangles out of white paper (or 1 large
triangle), and glue it to the straw to be the ships
sail. Glue the straw onto the styrofoam meat tray so
it is coming up through the center of your boat.
Sailboat Snack Recipe
An edible fun craft
Materials Needed:
Celery Stick
Peanut Butter
Toothpick
Fruit Roll Snack
Instructions:
Cut a 3-4 inch section of a celery stick. Spread
peanut butter in the groove of the celery. Cut a
small triangle from the fruit roll snack and
attach to a toothpick (see below). Stick the
toothpick in the celery, through the toothpick.
Now you have a sailboat snack.
Mayflower Ships
Give each child a walnut shell half, a small piece of playdough, a toothpick
and a small square of white paper for a sail. Let the kids
decorate their sails with crayons. Help each child punch
holes in his or her sail. Show the child how to stick his
or her toothpick in one hole and out the other hole.Hve the kids
roll the playdough into a ball and place in the
bottom of the walnut shell.. Then stick the toothpick in the playdough.
APPLE SAILBOAT SNACK
The children make apple sailboats from an apple slice, a triangular piece
of cheese, & a toothpick. Eat for snack.
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