Milk Carton Pirate Ship

	2 milk cartons
	2 straws
	playdough
	yellow, black and white construction paper
	glue, scissors and tape

ALTERNATIVE: use craft foam instead of construction paper and you'll have a ship that you can play with in the bathtub.

milk carton pirate ship craft

	tape a piece of construction paper about 1/2 way up the milk carton as shown in the photo to the right.
	tape black construction paper all the way up the back of the milk carton, leaving about 1 inch sticking up over the carton

tape white construction paper over the rest of the milk carton

glue two blobs of playdough into the center of the pirate ship

	cut a two to three inch piece off the bottom of the second milk carton.
	Tape it onto the ship (covering the playdough)
	poke two holes in it (with a pencil) right above the playdough blobs
	cover with white construction paper

	stick two straws through the holes you poked in the top carton
	cut two large rectangles and two small rectangles from yellow construction paper
	poke two holes in each rectangle with scissors or a hole punch and thread onto the straws as masts
	draw windows and a door with markers
	Cut yellow circles and glue them to the side of the ship as portholes
	Add a gangplank made of cardboard.