Since we had so much fun with our earlier ice investigation, I decided this week to make some ice boats for the kiddie pool this week.

I found a few small yogurt containers in the recycling box and filled them partially with water and a couple drops of food coloring.  Then I stuck a straw in it to be a mast.  To keep the mast from floating in the water or becoming crooked I used a little bit of tape to hold the straw in place.  Then I popped them in the freezer.

The next day I cut sails from construction paper and cut 2 small slits in each sail to slip the straw mast through.

They were super excited when they saw the ice boats.

They didn’t last long (It was a pretty hot day out!), but they had fun swirling the boats around and feeling the colder water in the boat’s path.

Have a boatiful weekend!

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