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Cardboard Box Pirate Ship

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Tinkerbell & Peter Pan 4yr

April 2002 Winner.

April 2002

Tiffany in Plano, Texas, USA

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We planned to hold the party outside but were faced with a day that called for floods! If you look at the maps of Neverland you'll see rainbows everywhere. I made rainbows out of streamers on the walls in the family room (main parents area) and put rainbow streamers on the door coming into the party, and the doors leading to the different rooms. In the hallway I suspended glow in the dark stars and Christmas lights on gold ribbon that I pinned into the ceiling with push pins. I constructed a pirate ship out of boxes and packing tape. It sounds - and actually - looked elaborate but was really simple to do. I scrounged a large wardrobe-sized box from a friend and cut it open. The box had four sides, so it had three folds in the card board. I left three of the sides of the box on the ground to be the base or main area of the ship. I cut the top and bottom flaps off the fourth side of the box and used them as supports; I taped the supports to the fourth side of the box to make it perpendicular to the bottom. This was the ship's prow. Next my husband and I collected six printer paper box tops from school and work. I taped three to each side of the ship from the prow the rear. I then got two pieces of poster board and taped them to the prow to make it larger. I cut them to mirror the curved design of Hook's ship, but it actually looked fine squared off too. Three cans of spray paint turned the ship brown. I happened to have some gold paint lying around and spent about fifteen minutes painting windows on the prow and along the sides and some simple curlicues at the top of the prow. Easy, easy. The final touch was the ship's mast. We used a fitted red and white striped sheet that belongs to my son and simply fitted it around a large dowel. We had an old broken vertical lamp in the garbage pile and quickly salvaged it. My husband cut off the cord and used more packing tape to secure the dowel across the top of the lamp, where the light used to sit. I was worried that the ship wouldn't survive the party, but it was sturdier than it looked and is sitting in the garage now. The biggest challenge was getting it into and through the house. The final touch to the pirate area was about a dozen black and purple balloons floating over the ship. 

 
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