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DIY Toy sailboat racers for kids made from bottle caps

1,491 views · Published 20 December 2017 · 4:16 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Robb's Homemade Life · 2017 · Howto & Style

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This was a fun toy boat project I designed for kids. The toy sailboats are made from little caps taken from juice and milk cartons. I connected the toothpick mast with small sections of tubing so the sails could be angled to catch the wind just like a real sailboat. I could have done a better job on the keels.Thin metal from soda cans may be better to make the keels than popsicle sticks. I think if I play around with the shape of the keels I can actually get the boats to sail across the wind.

I used a heat gun and a vise to shape the caps but I don't know if it mattered much. If you try this I recommend the lighter thinner caps on juice cartons, the caps on coke bottles are very thick and hard to shape and would not need to be heated but you would still need to squeeze them in a vise. 

If you have some mud puddles and some very young kids this will get their attention and you can teach them about making things on their own and even how sailboats sail. 

 If you toy boats in the next month I will be adding a few more toy boat designs out of recycled material and will be adding small electric toy motors to them. Don't forget to check out my other DIY videos and playlists.

 Robb Moffett
 Robb's Homemade Life
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