Ideas on how to make a card board boat with only cardboard and tape.......?
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Depends on the size. A simple toy boat size, almost any cardboard would work. Look at the construction of a container from your local Chinese restaurant. Simple yet effective.\nAs for a boat you sit in, well I would say tape is not enough. You would need to strengthen the cardboard alot with ribs. \nDisplacement of water is what causes you to float. Make a raft with sides. Approx 1sq ft for every 20 lb of weight.
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My dad made a 16' cedar strip canoe.  \n\nIt is beautiful, light, and quiet on the water.  I know there are books available at Barnes and Noble or Borders, but I know he just created the form and learned how to fiberglass finish the outside.  \n\nGood luck!
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i just build my snowboard box this last weekend. last year i built a 16' x 1' x 4' box and i had used plexiglass and it cracked and warped with the temperature changes, so maybe that isn't the way to go. I'm guessing you should go with treflon or perspex? or id say use the stuff from the hockey rinks which probably rang from 60$-80$. idk if i helped any.
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Limbo, Pinata. Musical Chairs, Pin the Tail On the Donkey, Dance contest, Pop The most Balloons, Simon Says, Toss the egg or water balloon, spoon race, 3 legged race, sack race, eating contest. You can do Arts And Crafts.... Have the kids fill sand bottles, paint bird houses or other inexpensive wooden items. If you go to your local ART & CRAFTS Store you can get many of the items at very little costs. You may also see some other ideas there. Good Luck!!!
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use old cardboard boxes and some spray paint
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It is cheap to make a surfboard only if you know how to make one. If you dont know how too you will waste a lot of money and it will be a pig in the water. \n\nSurfboards are made out of a foam blank, it is then shaped and a hard fibreglass put over the top. Its not a good job, it stinks and is higly toxic. Walk into a shapers bay and you have a headache after 2 minutes of being in there.\n\nBuy a second hand surboard if you want to save a few dollars. Best option I think.
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Thinking out of the box:\n\n  Just crumple it up into a paper ball.\n\nRough texture but easily a sphere.
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Anything homemade.  A card or a simple craft.
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I would mark 3 lines running the long way (11 inches) across the cardboard, dividing the cardboard into 4 sections each 2 inches by 11 inches.\n\nThen, I would fold the carboard along those lines as follows: folded in half along the center line, then each outer joint is folded the opposite way.  This leaves you wth a long piece having a cross-section that looks like an extruded letter "W."  I am going to call these folds the "hinges" in order to keep them from being confused witht he next folds.\n\nNext, I would mark three lines the other way, so that they divide the extruded "W" into four sections of equal length.  Now fold in the same direction along all three of these lines -- this gives you something that looks like a square when viewed from above.  I am going to call these new folds the "corners."\n\nFinally, the tricky bit:  the opposite ends of the now-bent-up "W" shape will have an inner hinge, a middle hinge, and an outer hinge.  By this I mean that if you look at the "W" shaped cross section, there is a "hinge" where the leftmost side of the W stops going down and bends to come back up -- this is the the inner hinge if the corners are bent so that the box shape is to the left of the "W" as you are looking at it, or the outer hinge if the corners are bent so that the boxt shape is to the right of the "W."\n\nAnyway, what you want to do is cut a slit along the fold of the inner hinge, from the edge of the cardboard HALF WAY to the first corner.  Then at the opposite end of the carboard piece (the other spot where you can see a "W"), cut another slit along the fold of the OUTER hinge again half way to the corner.\n\nThese two slits will allow you to slide the two "W"-shaped ends over one another so that they will lock together.  Now instead of looking like a square from above, this folded bit of cardboard looks like a triangel from above and has one sidewall that is twice as thick as the other two.\n\nA tennis ball should sit nicely in that triangle but be too big to fall through if you pick the carboard piece up.\n\nYou should easily be able to support 50 pounds on this triangle if the triangle is lying such that the three sides are all touching the table along one edge and the 50 pound weight is sitting on top of the triangle touching all 3 sides along their opposite edges (just the same orientation as it would have been holding the tennis ball in).  I have no doubt it can support 10 pounds on any given side either -- cardboard is amazingly strong when it is folded up like this.
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If you have to actually build this thing then a castle-style drawbridge would probably be the easiest thing I can think of. \n\nBuild a tower out of boxes, wood or whatever. If you’re real lazy simply stand a shoebox on its end and paint an archway on what was the bottom.\n\nCut a piece of cardboard slightly narrower than the base of the box and about 8 inches long. That piece of cardboard is your span.  Bend the first couple of inches of the cardboard up at right angles. Push thumbtacks through that bent up section and into the tower a few inches above the tabletop. That way when the span is lowered it will slope downwards on to the table.\n\nPass a piece of wire through a cotton spool and bend both ends around to make a U shape. Bend the ends of the “U’ shape into tight circles. You can now put a screw through those circles and into a piece of light wood/heavy card that you can glue to the tower somewhere near the top.\n\nPoke a hole in the free end of the span. Tie some thread through it. Pass the thread around the cotton spool a few times. \n\nYippee, finished in one afternoon.\n\nWhen you turn the spool the span will lift. The spool is both a wheel and a pulley system. The span itself functions as a lever. Because the span slopes downwards onto the table top it is an inclined plane/ramp.\n\nAttaching a couple of parts using screws and a couple more using nails/tacks gives you your screw and wedge.\n\nSimple. Next time don't procrastinate.
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a needle, tweezers, glue and/or duct tape!
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Hi Manda\n\nTry putting them on a corkboard covered with green felt. Using some twist ties run threw the board. Then if you like you can put the m in a nice frame.\nJust an idea.\n\nLeon
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Go to a "game store" and look for a three dimensional puzzle, or some other similar puzzle.\nA company called "Binary Arts" used to make a couple of good ones.
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just get a almost deck (if you want) some thunder trucks ( i think those are the best)\nalmost wheels( you dont want to make youre skateboard look tacky)\n\nand some black magic or mob grip  tape
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JUST MAKE A 3D-MODEL OF A PRISM OUT OF A CARDBOARD OR THERMACOL
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Are you talking about the entire board?\n\nIf that's what you mean, I've never heard of anyone doing that. Nor can I imagine in what situation that would be worth the effort.\n\nFew thoughts:\n\n1. If it's a vintage board that you want to restore to pristine condition, you'd still be better off painstakingly fixing each ding. You'd really compromise the shape and risk utterly destroying it by attemping to rip off all the fiberglass. \n\n2. If it's a magic board - a shape so perfect that you don't think anyone could ever reproduce it - then maybe you'd want to consider re-glassing it. However, I still think you'd be better off simply fixing all the dings individually. Plus,  after ripping the fiberglass off and re-glassing it, chances are you'll have altered the board fairly substantially. I guarantee it won't be the exact same board ever again. \n\n3. If it's a board that's simply so thrashed, and so full of holes, that re-glassing seems like the best course of action...well, I still don't think it would be worth the effort. Your time and money would be better spent on a new  stick.   \n\nBottom line: surfboards are semi-disposible products (ironic, considering the toxic, long-lasting materials they're made with). Unless I've missed a potential scenario, re-glassing a board really isn't worth your time or money. \n\nHowever, if you're simply talking about re-glassing a section of the board, then absolutely. That's Ding Repair 101. \n\nThere's a good "how to" site here:\nhttp://surfsource.net/dingrepairguide.html\n\nAh, one more thought. If you have an old board that you want to spiff up and add some durability to, then you might wanto to consider adding a coat of gloss. \n\nThere's a good forum on Surfline about that very thing:\nhttp://forums.surfline.com/showthread.php?s=e2b338cfb16a64f0ed9a0b0b51a3ba1c&t=27741\n\nHope this helps!
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It depends on what you mean.  If you want to make one from scratch, start with boat plans.  You can get plans from the local library, boating magazines, and even shipyards.\n\nThere are many models available that are in kit form.  You can build those and paint in your own color scheme.\n\nLastly, there are ready to float boats that are R/C.  You can have an out-of-the-box boat in the water in less than 10 minutes, once the batteries are charged.\n\nGas powered boats are the most fun, but they travel too fast for the backyard pool.  You will need a calm lake...or a flooded back 40, to have any fun.  I have a Prather Lap Cat...see link.