Make a boat which floats successfully in your sink, bath or washing up bowl.

Use anything you have in your house, for example: tin foil, lego, straws or paper.

It must be able to carry at least one penny.

Post an image of your boat on our blog, the winner will be the boat that carries the most pennies.

 


 

9 comments on “Design Technology – Which boat can carry the most pennies before it sinks?

  1. Ms O'Connell says:

    Hi everyone ..what a great activity Ms Savage?
    Have fun making your boats ..what will you call them?

  2. Ms Pereira says:

    I can’t wait to see images of your boat.

  3. Moses really enjoyed the activity. With the help of his siblings he created a pirate ship named ‘Lightning Zap!’ The boat successfully carried 102 pennies.Good luck to the other contestants ?

    (We will email the photos separately )

  4. Miss Savage says:

    I’m so pleased to hear that you enjoyed this activity Moses. I look forward to receiving your photos. Maybe now you need to make a pirates treasure chest to put all those pennies in! Or did you use a pound? ?

  5. Ms O'Connell says:

    Great name Moses

  6. Thank you Ms O’Connell?

  7. I used a big water bottle, I painted it with light blue, I used a straw and blue paper for the flag with my name on it.
    I put it in the water and I put 40 coins and it didn’t sink!

  8. Miss Savage says:

    Well done Nico!

  9. I made a boat with a sea horse mast and a pink ribbon. I used stickers and drawings to decorate /sail my boat.
    We moved and did not bring our coin boxes with us but Mummy gave me all the coins she had in her purse. I put 4 x 2p and counted this to be 8p. I found it too difficult to count the silver coins but I counted 10 coins in total. The boat could carry more coins but Mummy had no more.

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