Friday 20 July 2012

Summer Virtual Book Club

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(Goblin is 33 months)
The authors for the Summer Virtual Book Club this month are Don and Audrey Wood. To be honest I'd never heard of them so I was excited to get choose our book. They have done a lot of books (check out the linky) but we chose King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
The book is about a King who won't get out of the bathtub all day. Various people try to get him out by saying, there is a battle, a feast, a ball, to go to. But he insists on having them all in the bathtub. 
As I read the book I knew exactly what activity we would do to compliment this. We would have our own battle in the bathtub with junkmodel boats. 
Hublet and I found some instructions for making oragami boats and we tried our hand at it.  These got very soggy in the bath and sank pretty quickly.
I made a melon boat (and ate all the melon - yum!). Goblin threw this in the bath a bit too enthusiastically and it sank making the sails very soggy. It floated once I retrieved it from the bottom of the bath and emptied out the water. 
I made a giant pirate galleon out of cardboard. The cardboard did not like the water one bit and disintegrated instantly. But I retrieved the sails and popped them in playdough in plastic tubs.
This little boat made out of a juice bottle lid was sunk because the playdough was too heavy, once I took some of the playdough out it floated quite well except for Goblin's tidal waves.
And these two ice boats were a hit but didn't last very long in the warm bath. 
Goblin enjoyed the battle in the bathtub so much that the next day he asked for more boats. 
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14 comments:

  1. Your experimentation with different floatie things looked like a lot of fun! That book sounds like a hoot. I think my son will like it. I love The Napping House by this husband and wife team!

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    1. Having read one I am definitely going to look out some others so I will check out the Napping House. Thanks Carolyn

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  2. Ok first off, I don't think I've taken a single picture on my site as good as your series of boat trials. Second, I also like The Napping House (although we don't own it come to think of it, I think that's a grandparents house book). I am finally taking a little time to explore other blogs (when do people get to do it other than Friday night?). I'll end with one word: foam :)

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    1. My photos are the result of my new toy - its a little light tent with coloured backgrounds. It comes with two daytime lights. It can only photograph smallish things but ist very cool. But as you can see i am too lazy to iron the backgrounds.
      Yes I did think craft foam ...... after i made all the bloody things!

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    2. Oooo, I know what I am asking for for Christmas!

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  3. PS Friday nights mean that my comments could be slightly delirious, but at least I'm finally commenting!

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  4. I love all the different boats you made - what fun!

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  5. This is great we love all of your boats. You can carve ivory soap into a bot shape insert sail and it floats.

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  6. i love all the different boats! so creative! thanks for linking up to tip-toe thru tuesday!

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  7. this would be great to do outdoors with the boys. thx
    mari

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  8. Love the boats they look great fun!

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  9. Oh my, the book looks great and what a fabulous selection of boats! Love!

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  10. Oh fun! I don't know if you saw our Bidgood activities. We haven't done the battle yet, so I will have to link up to you when we do. I love your boats.

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  11. I love all the boats and experiemnting with what floats and sinks.

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