Bark Boat Race
A piece of bark, a twig for a mast and a leaf for a sail make a boat that really sails. Two boats and a ditch full of rainwater make a race worth arguing about.
What you need
- Pieces of bark or flat sticks
- Thin twigs
- Large leaves
- A stream, a ditch or a big puddle
How to play
- Find two flat pieces of bark of roughly the same size — one boat each.
- Push a thin twig into the bark as a mast and slide a leaf onto it as a sail.
- Mark a start and a finish on the bank with two stones.
- Launch both boats at the same time and run along the bank to follow them.
- Rebuild the boat that lost: move the mast, make the sail bigger, and race again.
- Fish both boats out at the finish so that nothing is left in the water.
