Walnut Boats – Walnut Craft Idea

If you live in an area where walnut trees are found, you can simply take advantage of this natural craft material and make a boat out of walnut trees.

They are easy to make and can float on water just like a regular boat… Just smaller.

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As the temperatures rise in the summer, it makes perfect sense to make a boat craft, let the kids play with it in the water (and cool off) afterwards. It might even be the best summer craft idea you can do with kids, as it is fun to make and will keep them busy for quite some time.

Now gather these tools and we will show you how to make this lovely boat friend.

How to make a walnut boat

What you need:

walnut
velvet stick
hot glue (with adult supervision)
glue
drag
colored paper
Self adhesive googly eyes
black gel pen

Let’s create!

Step by step instructions

Take a walnut and ask an adult to split the shell into two equal parts.

The easiest way to do this is to place the craft knife/scissors tip into the bottom hole as shown in the picture and twist the left half and right half until it cracks.

Great!

Pour hot glue into each half.

Like this.

Take a strip of velvet and divide it into 5cm pieces of velvet.

Then take a 5cm long piece and place it vertically inside the shell.

Let the glue dry.

Fold some colored paper in half and…

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