Summer Virtual Book Club

(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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