Yesterday, Aari was watching Curious George on PBS and one of the characters made a replica of an Egyptian boat or raft for a history project. She kept talking about the boat so it gave me the idea to make paper boats with her and let her experiment with them.
I used plain white printer paper to make the
boat. I filled a 9 x 13 baking dish with some water and a few drops of blue food coloring for effect.
The first boat, Aari sank almost immediately. I was quickly folding back-up boats in the meantime and let her explore them in the water. She learned fairly quickly that she needed to handle them gingerly or they would take on water and sink. She was very animated during her exploration and especially liked the blue water.
