DLTK's Activities for Kids
Milk Carton Pirate Ship

Materials:

• 2 milk cartons
• 2 straws
• playdough
• yellow, black and white construction paper
• glue, scissors and tape

Alternative:  use craft foam instead of construction paper and you'll have a ship that you can play with in the bathtub.
 

Instructions:  

• tape a piece of construction paper about 1/2 way up the milk carton as shown in the photo to the right.
   
• tape black construction paper all the way up the back of the milk carton, leaving about 1 inch sticking up over the carton.
   
• tape white construction paper over the rest of the milk carton.
   
• glue two blobs of playdough into the center of the pirate ship.
   
• cut a two to three inch piece off the bottom of the second milk carton.
   
• Tape it onto the ship (covering the playdough).
   
• Poke two holes in it (with a pencil) right above the playdough blobs.
   
• cover with white construction paper.
   
• stick two straws through the holes you poked in the top carton.
   
• cut two large rectangles and two small rectangles from yellow construction paper
   
• Poke two holes in each rectangle with scissors or a hole punch and thread onto the straws as masts.
   
• draw windows and a door with markers.
   
• Cut yellow circles and glue them to the side of the ship as portholes.
   
• Add a gangplank made of cardboard.

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