Emma's Caravel Ship

In Emma's fifth grade class, they have been studying a unit on Exploration.  One aspect of the unit was learning about the difference sailing vessels that the explorers used during their time.  As a class project, the kids were assigned to "build" their own ship - they could choose which ship they wanted to duplicate and it could be built any way they wanted to, as long as the ship existed between the years 1300 and 1700.  Emma chose to make a "Caravel" ship and decided she wanted to make it out of rice crispy treats. :)  So we went and bought Cocoa Krispies and chocolate marshmallows so that the ship would be brown and got to work.  Here she is melting the marshmallows to add to the rice crispies.

She also had to create some masts and she decided to make them out of white parchment paper and kabob spears.

Her dad helped her shape it into a ship.....

.....and add the rigging and masts.

This is what a Caravel Ship looked like.  It is what Christopher Columbus used in his exploration.

Here is Emma's finished product.  It turned out really cute and hopefully she'll get a good grade on it.

And thankfully for us we had lots of rice crispy treats left over to munch on.  Good school assignment!!!