How to make floating Ice boats

A little while ago, one hot late summer day, we floated ice boats with the children.

First, I cut out some triangle shapes out of heavy duty scrapbooking paper in pretty designs

Then I took all of Ned's baby tupperware containers, placed a small circle of blu-tack in the centre of them, added a skewer stick (half of one in each, the pointy bit cut off) and water, then froze them overnight.

The first time, I added a bit of food colouring to make them stand out when they were floating.

But BAD Idea!!  Of course, the children later wanted to eat the ice 'block'. 

(Lesson learned: Fridays group ice boats were just plain water,

then it didnt matter if they did eat them after all!)

We filled up an old baby bath with COLD water.  The colder the better.  Add as much ice as you can, and let it melt to reduce water temperature before you set the boats free.

This helps the iceboats to last longer!

The children and mums added a 'flag' to their boats and watched them set sail.

The tupperware containers made good boats too!

And after all that fun,  iceboat iceblocks helped keep us all cool!!