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The Mayflower  Travis Lane

Supply List
 * 1) 1 cardboard filing box
 * 2) 1ft.x5ft. thin fabric
 * 3) 1 pair of scissors
 * 4) 2 18”x 12”x1” Styrofoam plate
 * 5) 1 box of chocolate cake batter
 * 6) 1 box of vanilla cake batter
 * 7)  1 mixing bowl
 * 8) 1 box of puzzle glue
 * 9) 4 chopsticks
 * 10) 1 cake cutting knife
 * 11) 1 plastic knife
 * 12) Kitchen knife
 * 13) Pencil
 * 14) 1ft.x1/2ft.x1/2ft. Styrofoam block
 * 15)  Bread knife
 * 16) 3 wooden round rods
 * 17) Container of gorilla glue
 * 18) Glue stick
 * 19) Box of 750 flat toothpicks
 * 20) Elmer’s liquid glue1
 * 21) 1 1/2x1/2ft. cake pan
 * 22) 1 roll of kite string
 * 23) 2 8” straws
 * 24)  2 10” gauge wires
 * 25)  File

How to Make a Mayflower!

This is how to make a model Mayflower and then stick it on a cake! First you need to get a filing box and some scissors. You only need three parts of the box, the front and back and the bottom. So cut those pieces out and set them aside. After you cut look at a picture of the Mayflower and draw the sides of the ship on the front and back pieces of cardboard. Make sure it is the size you want; if it is you can then cut them out. Once they are cut out put them up to each other and test if it is the same size. If they aren’t use the scissors and make them even. You then form the angle you want and use the Styrofoam plate to make a wedge the size as the angle you chose. Once that is done you use that wedge and cut 5 of the same size. Then you put the first three in between the cardboard and glue them in (don’t use Gorilla glue for this task. It will dissolve your Styrofoam). As you may have noticed there are 2 decks and they have a drop in between them. This is easily done. Put the wedge on the lower deck and cut the Styrofoam to its shape. Do the same for the next deck. There is one more deck but that will come later. Next cut a square piece of cardboard from the bottom part of the box that fits on the back. This piece will curve so you will have to create a Styrofoam wedge to make the cardboard curve to the outline. You can then shape the block of Styrofoam into that top deck. Get the bottom back out and cut a small piece to make the back of that deck. Then glue it all together using the puzzle glue. Set the main frame aside and get the rods. Take the longest and cut it into three even piece for the yards. Then cut the thickest ones into the masts at the length you choose. Then take a file and notch them at the touching points. Then take the kite string and tie the two rods together. Do the same with the others. Once done begin cutting the fabric into squares about 4 square inches. Then cut a small hole in the top and slide it over the top. Wrap the sail partly around the yard and use gorilla glue to stick the sail to the yard. Do the same to the others and make the one that will be in the middle taller. Take the 8 inch straws and feed the wires through them. Then take the pencil and poke 2 holes in each side. Bend the extra wires into the two holes. Take the kite strings and tie around the bottom corners and tie the other end to the straws. For the top masts tie a chopstick to the mast with the kite string. Then cut a chopstick in half for the top yard. Cut a sail a little bit smaller and do the same as the bottom sails. Tie the kite string to the sail below it. (The very back sail doesn’t have a topsail). When you tie the back sail stab a hole in the back of the ship. Stick it through the hole and tie a knot so it will stay. Now back to the front. Take half of the chopstick and put it were the bowsprit should be. Then cut a super small sail and put it on the bowsprit like a sail. Tie it back to the straw and drill holes in the Styrofoam for the masts. Put them in and get the toothpicks. Use the Elmer’s liquid glue to make a deck of toothpicks. Once the decks are finished take a black sharpie and a white crayon and color the designs on the boat in the picture. Once done with that take a plastic small bowl and color it with a blue sharpie. Then put cotton balls on the top and set ship on it. Finally get your cake supplies and follow the instructions on the cake batter box (any flavor is good). Once done decorate cake like the ocean with blue icing. Finally crown your cake with the ship itself!!
 * __ Now enjoy your cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![[image:bhwikiworld/2011_ship_003.JPG width="560" height="420" align="right"]] __**

The Mayflower In the harbor of Plymouth, Massachusetts, an old fashioned ship called the Mayflower //II// floats beside a pier near Plymouth Rock. Every year many thousands of people come aboard wanting to learn more about the original Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth colony Back in 1620. Some of those facts are now listed in the passage below.

This ship was not the first to sail from a different content to America. It was actually the 3rd to make the tough voyage. Columbus was the first to make the trip across the Atlantic. Another man named Amerigo Vespucci came, Discovered, and named this fine country. The pilgrims (102 passengers) were quite exited to begin their voyage, only being the third ship. It would be their first time in a new country plus they would do stuff they couldn’t imagine of doing in a million years!!! This was going to be a good voyage-so they thought.

Few Mayflower passengers had been to sea before. Weeks of rough weather and wet conditions below decks made people sick. Some passengers stayed weak and ill even after the ship arrived in America. This was only one obstacle though. John Howland, a passenger, had to be helped back aboard after being pitched into the sea by the wildly tossing Mayflower. The crew constantly worked to keep the ship seaworthy while that ruckus went down. The crew stayed busy repairing sails, sealing up decks with caulking (a glue type substance), and keeping secure on the aging Mayflower. Bowsprit bouncing Sails expanding the Mayflower bounced over the Atlantic waves.

The food was not like your dinner today. Hot meals such as pottage (stew) could only be cooked in calm weather, so passengers often passengers ate cold food. Also everyone on board including the children drank beer! Why that is, is that back then they didn’t have such strict laws as we do today. More or less there were close to no laws, they hadn’t created any of them yet!!

Passing the time wasn’t much fun either though. Reading was one of the few things they could do. There were a few little games like __Nine Men’s Morris.__ That was one that could be played in tight quarters unlike some of the others. There weren’t any video games or televisions in 1620. So it was very hard for the little ones of the Mayflower.

**__A thank you to my information resources listed below__** **__Mayflower 1620 A New Look At A Pilgrim Voyage,__** **__The previous textbooks,__** **__Wikipedia the Free encyclopedia,__** **__And…__** **__Mrs. Johnston!__**