"Ahoy Mateys": supplies needed: large cardboard boxes, spray paint, dowel, posterboard, fabric, newspaper, blow up sharks, fishing net. I cut the boxes down one side to open lengthwise. Once spread out, I cut the top to make the boat shape and spray painted the boxes to look like wood. I attached strips of wood to the back of each box to keep the box sturdy when it was standing up.  I named each ship. One was Capt'n Jakes and the other was Lil Wak. Using the dowel, I attached that to the cardboard from the back and made a pirate flag out of black posterboard which I attached to the dowel. I also made each ship a sail out of cream colored fabric. I placed the fishing net out of one of the ships and put the sharks on the floor (the water) in between the two ships. This was supposed to be a cannonball fight with water balloons, but since it was raining, I had a good friend of mine crumble up newspaper to make the cannonballs. Since we couldn't put the ships in the middle of the yard like I originally planned, we set this game up in the garage. We had 2 teams and they stood behind the ships, when we said "go" they began throwing the newspaper cannons at the other ship. The object was to have the least amount of cannonballs behind your ship when we said "stop". Before we started, we mentioned that the object was to have the cannonballs behind the other ship, not hit the other kids. This was lots of fun, I can only imagine how fun it would be with the water balloons!