One of the highlights of the year for us at White Elephant Creations is the Cardboard Regatta that our church hosts. It is a fun opportunity to get creative and work with one of our favorite mediums…cardboard! This year, our son was old enough to participate. After consulting with him, we settled on creating a space rocket boat. Using cardboard, duct tape, some cool plastic flower pots that were perfect for the booster rockets, and lots of aluminum foil, we crafted our rocket. Faith decided to join our son as co-pilot and we found some fun space helmets at the party store as a cool finishing touch. Although they did not win the race, their boat did not sink, which was the bigger win for Faith. Thanks Faith for being a good sport and being the only parent to participate!

With both kids participating this year, Mike was anticipating having to help construct 2 cardboard boats. Thankfully, our daughter decided to build her boat with her friend instead. They decided on a patriotic theme for their boat creation and ended up winning most creative boat design. Unfortunately, their boat did not fair very well in the race, sinking shortly after the start; but we were very proud of her for creating her boat without our assistance.