Sunday, July 31, 2011

They Built-a-Bear and now they Built-a-Boat

Girl Scout Troop Leader Annie saw a cardboard boat race advertised at our local aquatic center. She rallied up the troops and had a pizza party/build-a-boat event at her house. The girls (and a handful of boys) had fun duct-taping cardboard like crazy, into the shape of a boat. We ended up with two boats and then drew names to see who would ride. Caelan picked boat #1 with Della. Gabby was happy to cheerlead, until another little girl's dad built a boat on his own time and then she picked Gabby to ride along with her. We realized once we got the girls in the boats on the water that a few instructional moments in paddling a boat "how-to" would have come in handy . . . :)






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