How to make a boat made of cardboard?

Favorite game of children, especially boys - is the launch of boats on the water and it does not matter whether it is a bathroom, whether the sea, or a small stream, formed after the rain. If you have already used our master classes and crafted foam plastic boats and wooden boats , we suggest you make cardboard boats. They are light enough to swim and require minimum financial costs to produce them. About how to make a craft in the form of a boat made of cardboard, we will discuss further.

Boat from cardboard with own hands

Using familiar objects for children, combined with cardboard, you can make an excellent boat, which will be very similar to the real one. For the manufacture of such a ship we will need:

  1. Three matchboxes are glued together as shown in the photo.
  2. When the structure of the boxes dries, the top is glued in advance with a cut out strip of colored paper.
  3. Form the nose of the ship. To do this, on the long side of the cardboard sheet, cut a strip with a width of 1.5 cm. The ends of the strip are glued to the construction of matchboxes. The resulting free middle of the strip is neatly bent with your fingers.
  4. We apply the resulting boat to the cardboard and cut out the bottom along the contours. We glue it to the ship. In order to avoid gaps, we can additionally glue the place of junction of the bottom and the nose of the ship with paper from the inside.
  5. We proceed to manufacture the mast. A sheet of A4 paper is tightened diagonally and we seal the free end so that the mast does not untwist.
  6. In the top matchbox we make a hole for the mast and cover it with PVA glue. We put in the mast and wait until the glue dries. We cut out sails and a flag from colored paper. In the sails we make holes for the mast with a punch hole. Sails, if desired, you can paint. Dressing the sails on the mast, we seal the top with a flag, folding it in half. It is necessary that the sails remain in place. Our ship is ready!

Crafting a boat with your own hands

A cardboard boat can be large. This will allow him not only to swim, but also to be an excellent place for pirate performances on land. For the manufacture of children's crafts in the form of a large boat, we will need:

  1. According to the existing patterns, we cut out the necessary details of the future ship from the cardboard.
  2. We connect the cut out parts together with an adhesive tape.
  3. We make a mast. To do this, cardboard round blanks are threaded onto one end of a long wooden stick and attach the entire structure to the bottom of the ship.
  4. We glue the whole ship with pieces of paper on the papier-mache principle. To do this, mix water and PVA glue in an equal proportion and dip the resulting mixture into pieces of torn or cut paper.
  5. When the paper dries, paint the ship with paints.
  6. One side of the piece of fabric is wound on a smaller rod and perpendicularly attached to the mast with a thread. If desired, you can draw a skull and bones or a coat of arms on the flag. The ship is ready!