Learn to Make a Milk Carton Sailboat - Episode 7 - Nā Pāka ma ka Hale

It’s time to get crafty in our 7th episode of Nā Pāka ma ka Hale, brought to you by the Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation!
For this activity, our trusty Booth District Park Pool Manager Keo will take you through this easy and fun method to make your very own milk carton sailboat.
The things you will need to make your sailboat are a milk carton, pencils or chopsticks, a hole puncher, scissors, tape and construction paper.
First take the milk carton and cut a hole in the top. I already started so I’m going to finish that. You can either use the milk carton this way or this way but since I have this I’m making it this way.
Next we’re gonna take the hole puncher and punch a couple of holes. We’re punching one here and here and these will be for the sail masts which are the pencils or chopsticks.
Go to our construction paper. I already outlined the sails. I made one larger than the other. This is 8 inches by 4 inches. You can make it however big you want as long as one is bigger than the other. The “X’s” that you see are going to be where I punch holes.
We have our sails now back to our boat. The reason I have four pencils is because they are not long enough to go into the boat and have enough space for the sails. Stick your pencils into the holes.. We can also take our tape just to make sure they don’t go anywhere we can tape the insides. One piece of tape there against the back wall and this one tape it to the floor.
Take your other pencils and slide the sails on it. If you have long enough sticks then that will be fine but as I said earlier the pencils aren’t long enough so I’m having to make two. I have the sails here so now take a couple pieces of tape and line up this one first and tape it. Same for the second one. Now your boat is complete so take it for a test!
Make sure to test out the boat in a body of water where you can retrieve the boat easily. You would be surprised how well this little boat will catch the breeze and get swept away. We would hate for your craft work to be taken away by a strong gust of wind. You can also attach the boat to a piece of string, which acts as a tether or leash. Safe sailing!