Every summer as part of a local raft race they run an edible boat regatta, with prizes for the best designed boats & also the boats that float the best. We had a good think about what food items we could use to make our boats & decided to use 1/2 a pineapple for Josephs & 1/2 a melon for Daniels.
I do confess to giving lots of help making these but i was most impressed by Josephs suggestion of using spaghetti to attach the decorations. I was assuming that wooden skewers & tooth picks would be banned however a winning boat contained them! I also debated weather the melon/pineapple skin would be allowed as not eaten but I'm sure it wouldn't kill you!
For our decoration we used toast cut out using cookie cutters, rice cakes, crackers & writing icing.
The boys were really chuffed with their boats & get a medal just for entering (thank goodness we made 2 boats). The really exciting bit was when everyone put their boats on the lake to see how well they sailed (floated). Ours did very well and lasted at least 10 mins, when I lost sight of them.
It was a great day out & we will be entering again in the future.
WE are huge raft racing fans here and are lucky enough to have a good stretch of river running right through Coombe Mill just perfect to race from bridge to bridge. We have tried recyling rafts, organic tree trafts so perhaps edible rafts should be next. Thank you for the idea and sharing on Country Kids.
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