Ok we had to buy 10 gallons of water for our fish tank and now we have all these milk jug shaped bottles left over and dh suggested to the kids making sail boats out of them. I've been messing with this for two hours now and I can't figure out how to do it. Ok maybe it's just that I really don't feel well but for some reason this isn't sinking in. HELP!!!!! Also any suggestions for the rest of the jugs? We are going to use the top half of some for scoopers for cat food and stuff like that but the kids really are interested in being "creative" with them.
Have your kids studied density yet. I don't know if your jugs are frosted or not but you could do some density experiments with different colored liquids like water and oil, now that I'm thinking about it that might get expensive. Maybe a soil density test with sand, rocks/gravel and soil or clay. If all else fails you got the beginning for some really noisy music makers, rocks, marbles, bells -- got a headache already :lol: . I'm clueless on the boat issue
This would take more than the jugs that you have, but if you save up enough you can build an igloo with the jugs. You lay the jugs on their sides and hot glue them together. I saw the idea on the internet some where along time ago, but I don't know where. It will take quite a few jugs but if you have room to store them while you save them up it would be a worthwhile project (maybe work it as part of an Eskimo/Artic Life/Types of Housing unit). Not sure how many you need, it would depend on the size of the igloo. Maybe you could ask friends and family to save their water and milk jugs so that it wouldn't take forever to get the number you need. Mariann
I read about that igloo project somewhere this morning but I can't remember where. It really would take us no time at all to save up the jugs. We refuse to drink the tap water so we go through about 2 gallons of water, if not more, a day plus 1/2 gallon of milk a day. Normally we would just refill the water jugs but since we needed so much this time we just had to flat out by 10 jugs. WE'll really have to think about that it might be pretty cool. I also read something about a skelleton made out of them but never got an real directions on it just an overview.
I saw the igloo in Pack O Fun!! It looks excellent. I'm working in a pre-map skills book with Jeannie that uses milk jugs to make houses. Just use markers to make windows and other features, or cut them from constr. paper.
Have you ever seen ppl use milk jugs around the holidays to make their Christmas lights glow? They look kinda like a luminary or something. You weight the bottom of the jugs (sand or even water if it is freezing outside) and place the bulb from each light in the top of the jug. It gives decorative lights a unique, soft glow.
