A Trap and a Boat

Travi will be participating in the Raingutter Regatta tomorrow night at the Pack meeting for his Tiger Scouts. He and Trav had to shape and design a boat with sail that will race everyone else. Here is what they came up with. Travi did all of the painting himself and then asked me to write the phrase on the sail that he wanted. We were pretty impressed with his Patriotic theme.






In school he has been learning about simple machines ie: pulleys, levers, etc. So our assignment was to do a simple machine for him to demonstrate in class. Since St. Patrick's Day is coming we designed a Leprechaun trap using a pulley system. Of course, the kids are completely dying to set the trap and see if we catch anything here at the house. We are baiting him with candy and green coins. This morning when I took Travi into school and dropped off the trap in his class, he was beaming with pride over having the biggest, most colorful project. He and Trav developed the idea and spray painted it the "Construction Cone Orange" and I was left with the task of helping him to camouflage the trap to make it more enticing to a Leprechaun.