Our Little House in the Country

Match stick mini rafts:

What you need:

• Wine corks
• Paper
• Match sticks
• Elastic bands
• Cocktail sticks or wooden skewers
• Ice lolly sticks
• Blue tack or playdough
• PVA glue

What you do:

• Attach 3 wine corks together by wrapping 2 elastic bands around the corks ensuring that the lie flat like a raft. (I had to do this for my kids)
• Cover the top of the raft in PVA glue
• Place an ice lolly stick on top of the raft, press down to ensure that it sticks.
• Now, cover the lolly stick in PVA glue
• Stick the matchsticks close together across the length of the lolly stick
• Leave to dry
• Cut a triangular sail from coloured paper of design you own sail and cut it out.
• Pass a cocktail stick or wooden skewer through the sail.
• When the raft is dry, stick a little lump of blue tack or playdough onto the raft and stick the sail into it.
• Fill up your sink or paddling pool and launch you rafts!

For more rafting fun check out:

• Winecork Pirate Ships
• Ice Lolly Stick Rafts

Have fun!

Ciara xox