Toy Cork Raft

Toy Cork Raft 
"For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened."  Luke 11:10

Craft Project:         Toy Cork Raft

Childrens Book:    The Night Pirates by Peter Harris

Snack:                        Monkey bread

The finished raft ready to launch!

Luke 11:10 instructs us to ask God for the things we desire.  It is that way with friends too.  If we want to join in playing with a group of friends sometimes all it takes is to ask.  In the Night Pirates, Tom wanted to join a band of pirates but the pirates were girls!  He asked and they let him join their adventures.  And what an adventure it was!!  Today's project is all about creating a toy cork raft to have your own pirate adventures.

Supplies:

approximately 20 corks (wine bottle corks work well)

approximately 10 tongue depressors or popsicle sticks

1 kabob stick
1 piece of colorful scrapbook paper

non-water soluable glue, non-toxic- we used Elmer's

glue brush

hole punch

How to:

Cover work area.  Before gluing, arrange tongue depressors in a crisscross pattern to form the base of raft.  Lifting one stick at a time, brush glue between sticks.  Next,  arrange corks to cover base of raft.  Patterns can be formed by laying one row of corks in one direction and the next row perpendicular to the first row.  Lift one cork at a time then glue to stick.  Allow to completely dry.  Place kabob stick upright in middle of raft by gently inserting stick into a cork.  Cut out a house shape from scrapbook paper to form sail.  Cover each side with contact paper.  Punch hole towards top of sail and another towards the bottom.  Thread house sail through kabob stick and place upright in cork. (House should be upside down as in story).  Launch!

The criss-cross tongue depressor pattern

 Supplies can be found in local craft stores, dollar stores, dime stores and by following the links below.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140521161X?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=140521161X&linkCode=xm2&tag=fooavefinthep-20

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0020M854Y?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=B0020M854Y&tag=fooavefinthep-20

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ARDVTZU?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=B00ARDVTZU&tag=fooavefinthep-20

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RBZTKQ?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=B002RBZTKQ&tag=fooavefinthep-20

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001IWOSCU?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=B001IWOSCU&tag=fooavefinthep-20

Did you know?: We tend to think of pirates as men but Anne Bonny and Mary Read were two infamous and fierce female pirates. 

Extension: Explore history of pirates and famous pirates. 

Monkey Bread-Tropical islands laden with pirate treasure and monkeys.  What better snack than warm monkey bread?

2/3 sugar

1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

30 buttermilk canned refrigerator biscuits

1 stick butter, plus more for pan

1/2 cup brown sugar

Grease and flour a bundt pan and set aside.  Have an adult preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  

Combine sugar and cinnamon.  Place in a gallon size ziploc bag.  Cut refrigerator biscuits in half, roll into a ball shape,  and shake in cinnamon and sugar. Melt stick of butter in a saucepan, add brown sugar and bring to a boil.  Put coated biscuit pieces in bundt pan.  Pour how butter/brown sugar mixture over biscuits.  Have an adult bake for about 30 minutes.  Remove from pan immediately.  Cool.  Great with a glass of cold milk!