How to make a boat made of polystyrene foam?

To launch boats is an activity that fascinates both adults and children. You can make them out of paper , cardboard , but it's easiest to cut it out of polystyrene. In order to create a ship from a foam plastic or even a whole flotilla, you will not need any special skills, nor much time. Remaining after the purchase of home appliances packaging foam, as well as other necessary materials, for sure there is in any house.

To make a ship model of foam plastic you will need:

• 2 sheets of foam plastic about 5 cm thick;
• thin sticks (you can pencils or sticks for sushi);
• fishing line;
• hot pistol;
• material for the sail (any old thing);
• paper clips;
• Super glue;
• tools: knife or blade, scissors, ruler, pencil or marker, stapler, sandpaper.

So, we are doing an interesting crafting - a pirate ship made from foam plastic:

1. We will be engaged in the hull of our model of the ship, for which we will draw a rectangle on the sheet of foam plastic and cut off 2 triangles to make the nose of the ship.
2. Next, let's go to the captain's booth. To do this, we need to cut along a piece of foam to get 2 squares (one thicker, the second thinner).
3. Let's paste a thicker piece of glue and gently glue the super glue to the hull of the ship, slightly sliding back.
4. From a thinner square, we cut out a triangle that is the same in shape with the nose of the ship. Gently paste it on the hull of the ship. The bottom of the bow must be carefully trimmed with a blade and sanded.
5. At us it has turned out here such preparation.
6. Further we make a mast, on which the sail will be fixed. To do this, cut off the 2 sticks of the right door and glue them crosswise with hot glue.
7. The last is the sail of the ship. Let it be from the old cloth, because the pirates on it have plundered a lot of space. Cut the rectangle of the desired shape.
8. In the middle we make an incision so that the sail is easier to fix, we fold the edge around the horizontal stick and fix it with a stapler.
9. To keep the sail on the ree better, from the paper clip we make hooks, which we insert into the hull of the ship along the sides and attach the lower edges of the sail to them with a fishing line.

As you can see, making a model of a pirate ship with your own hands is very simple, and such an article will surely please your child. Forward to finding the right pond!