Gettin’ all snooty at the Sailboat Regatta

We took the kids to a sailboat regatta the other day. Doesn’t that make us sound all snooty and important? A sailboat regatta. Ooh. Aaah.

But really our sailboat regatta involved sailboats made from milk cartons.

The library had a little craft event. Weyerhaeuser provided the milk cartons. The library provided the water. And the kids provided to creativity.

I helped Skyler & Caleb with their boats. The kids cut out sails and I helped them attach them to straws in their milk carton boats. Then they added some stickers and used markers to draw on the boat.

Lee helped Spencer with his boat. Whereas I took a hands off approach with Skyler and Caleb, Lee took a different approach with Spencer. Of course, he sort of had too since Spencer pulled out his shy card and was reluctant to begin working on his boat. But eventually he came around and helped dad out. They thought about the whole construction of their boat; what kind of sails would give them the best wind power, how they could make their sails turn, etc.

Once the boats were built they got to race them. There were four lanes to race the boats in. The kids stood behind their boats and blew them to the end of the lane. Then they turned them around and blew them back. There were volunteers there timing their race.

Caleb was pretty upset by this because “it wasn’t a race.” He wanted to go neck and neck with somebody else. He didn’t want somebody just timing his race. So when we got home we let them race their boats in the pool. Those races eventually turned in to just dunking their boats in the water and watching them sink while Skyler blew her boat around the pool. This is the difference between boys and girls I guess.

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