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I have had my calendar booked forever for Peter Pan Live! ever since I heard it was the next live theater production to hit television.
Did you hear that it is coming to NBC on Thursday, December 4 at 8/7c? The cast includes several of my favorites like Allison Williams, Christopher Walken, Christian Borle and Minnie Driver.
In honor of the film, I have crafted up a watermelon boat that you can share with your kids for your family night together.
This fun food craft can be created together, adding your own personal pirate touches, or you can create it to surprise the kids for your family night.
Not many people know this, but I did theatre for many years and my favorite type of shows to do were musicals.
My love for this started in high school and I took a year off in between high school and college to do more shows.
In fact, I even did a show when I was pregnant with my son.
Thankfully, it was of an era with empire waists and flowing Victorian clothing.
I miss it a lot and that is, perhaps, why I appreciate the opportunity to catch any production that I can.
I also appreciate any opportunity I can get to expose my children to the arts and it is why I put a big significance on this in our home.
Not everyone can afford a ticket to see a show and I love that this is an affordable way to enjoy the arts as a family.
Let’s create a fun pirate ship for your family night!
Supplies Needed
1 watermelon
1 pint blueberries
1 pint strawberries
1 pound grapes
1 sharp knife
cutting board
1 piece of cardstock
5 paper straws (I found these in the party supplies aisle)
1 hole punch
1 pair of scissors
Directions for Watermelon Pirate Ship
1. To help your boat sit upright, slice very thinly the end off of the bottom of the watermelon, making sure not to puncture your watermelon so it can act as a boat for your fruit.
2. Slice the top half of your watermelon off. Set aside.
3. Using a melon baller, remove the meat of your watermelon. If you do not have a melon baller, you can score the watermelon into chunks and glide your knife all around watermelon to help create the shape of your chunks. Use a spoon to then scoop out the squares of melon. Ideally though, a melon baller makes quick work for your fruit salad.
4. Once the melon is completely hollowed out, slice your fruit and place it inside of your bowl, weaving in your watermelon, to create your fruit salad.
5. Now we can make our sails for our ship. Cut out five squares from a single piece of cardstock, any size you wish. I just cut out one square and used it as a template to create the rest of my sails. These do not have to be perfect, in fact, if they are imperfect they look like they are waving a bit in the breeze.
6. Using a hole punch, punch out a punch near the top of the square and then near the bottom to create a place for our straws to slide through. I stacked them all together and then punched them all at once so they would look more uniform.
7. You will then need to cut your straws are varying sizes. I did one long straw, two medium, and then two short. Slide the straw through making sure that the straw is peeking out of the back and not the front of that pretty white sail.
We hope you love this craft we created in honor of Peter Pan Live! and we hope you can catch the show with us! You can learn more about this amazing production here! We can’t wait and hope this idea inspires you for your family night together!
xo
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