We had so much fun working with our daughter to build her cardboard boat four our church’s annual Cardboard Regatta. The basic premise for the regatta is for parents and kids to build a navigable boat using mainly cardboard and duct tape. In addition to racing against other kids’ cardboard boats, boats are also judged on creativity and asked to come up with a theme for their boats. For our daughter’s boat, we came up with a winter/Frosty the Snowman theme with Frosty being towed from behind to look like he was water skiing.

This was the first time for our daughter to compete in the regatta. She was very apprehensive and nervous about her boat sinking in the chilly and “dirty” lake water. We assured her that she would be okay, and thanks to a whole lot of extra duct tape, we made sure that she wouldn’t sink. Thankfully the rules on duct tape were pretty loose.

When it came time to launch the boats, Frosty (being towed from behind) quickly fell over, but our daughter’s boat still stayed afloat. In the end, our daughter (and her co-pilot friend) came in second place, but the greatest victory was being one of the few boats to finish the race without sinking. It was a fun day, and best of all, our daughter is looking forward to competing in the cardboard regatta next year.