Here it is.....the Titanic!

K.T. guessed it right, it is the Titanic. That wadded up piece of paper is the iceberg too...haha

This was so much fun to make. I was very impressed with Noah on this project. He came up with the idea from the toilet paper rolls...I only just helped him decide what size boxes to use to make the shapes...he did all the painting. I get to take credit for the circle windows. At the end, I asked him if he wanted to do the windows or for me to do it, and he said, "Mom, you can do it b/c I have done everything else on here, and I want you to get to have a chance to do some too!" So I got out my circle brush and dotted away! We looked all over the internet for photos, and it was really hard to find them in color, but we finally got it figured out as closely as we could. We ended up spending a lot of time online looking...watching music videos from the movie, watching interviews of the original survivors, looking at old photos. He was so excited, and now he really wants to go to the Titanic museum in Branson.

I have Clay to think for the supplies for this project. We go through so much trash each day, he started undoing all the boxes and just stacking them on top of each other on a shelf in the garage. I am always very quick to throw things away...but I was able to find just what I needed in his stash, and that isn't even the first time I have recycled his cardboard for school. For this boat, we used 2 of the 12 pack coke boxes, a shake and bake box and shells and cheese box, a Ziplock bag box, and then 4 toilet paper rolls! I then just hot glues all the layers together. If we hadn't fun out of black paint halfway through, then this project would have been free!