For those engineer-minded kiddos, this idea for cardboard dragon boats over at Ikatbag will probably be enough to keep them entertained for a while. Momma Lorraine even shares a printable pattern you can use to create the boats (thank you!). How perfect for a nautical-themed party. A few riggings, helms and sails later and it’s all aboard!
Sharlyn Petit is a Northwest-obsessed, annoying iPhone food-documenting, day-tripping fool. By day, she's an HR communications specialist, but she spends every other waking minute as a freelance writer and editor for food, travel and lifestyle content. Born in Hawaii and raised in Alaska, she left the coconuts and survival camps behind long ago for a quiet life in the Emerald City with her French husband.