We made our fishing rods including hooks from sticks found around the site, by cutting the V joints on branches we were able to fashion hooks. The group had a go at tying a round turn and two half hitches to conect the rod to the hook and with the addition of some wood cookie sharks we were off to catch the big one. The wood cookie sharks were just wood cookies with holes drilled in them to allow a piece of wire to pass through. The piece of wire was then looped over and knoted on the back with a wiggle eye fixed on just above the gapping mouth the sharks were ready.
It wasn't all Jolly Rogers and shark fishing, there was sewing business left over from last week and using blanket stitch a quiver was fashioned. With the rain coming down harder and harder one of the boys came up with the idea of making himself a cape from the tarp fabric used for the quiver.
Today the sun came out and with a fresh crew we were building boats from junk.
Using a collection of old plastic bottles, those who wanted to build a boat started lashing the
botttles together, no designs were the same. One of the boats had two masts and with hot chocolate jars adding floatation looked great, another had a wheel added to make it more like a really sailing ship.
At the end of the session we took them off to the school pond to hold a regatta, unfortunately even with yesterday's rain the pond was near to empty. Although there was enough water for one boy to fill his wellies!!
As well as the boat building we did go fishing as well, no sharks caught today but we did catch a chocolate bisciuts.
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