Craftory: Ships in a Jar

[Music] welcome to craftery by prageru kids crafts history and your questions i'm jill and in 1492 columbus sailed the ocean blue did you know today we're creating our very own homemade action model of ships at sea in a jar to celebrate an explorer very important to america christopher columbus here's what you'll need a clear jar toothpicks baby oil or vegetable oil i'm using baby oil blue food coloring cardboard white packing tape and super glue be careful with this one because you don't want to get your fingers stuck together okay oh we've got a question there's a lot of explorers out there so why is christopher columbus so important good question and you're right there are many explorers important to america there was one explorer named leif erikson who discovered our american continent hundreds of years before christopher columbus but columbus was the first explorer who opened the new world in the west to colonization christopher columbus was born in 1451 in genoa now a part of italy and eventually moved to spain he learned to sail when he was a teenager and loved being at sea in the year 1453 europe stopped being able to trade goods with asia through an ancient route they used called the silk road so christopher columbus thought why don't i just sail to asia so we can trade again he didn't know there was land in the way columbus had courage and persistence after asking many leaders for help it was king ferdinand and queen isabella of spain who finally gave him a thumbs up and money to take a transatlantic voyage that set sail on august 3rd 1492 columbus took three ships the nina the pinta and the santa maria historians tell us that columbus's crew spotted land on october 12 1492. he arrived in the bahamas which he thought was india and named the island san salvador columbus was not a perfect person but his expeditions to the new world inspired exploration and discovery which led europeans to settle on new land that would eventually become our united states of america that's why in 1937 president franklin roosevelt officially declared columbus day an american holiday columbus day is recognized on the second monday of october you ready to make columbus's ships at sea let's go we're gonna start with our cardboard and making the teeny tiny little ship take your cardboard fold it in half it's kind of firm might be a little difficult but you can do it right where the fold is we're going to draw the shape of a little ship [Music] and then we're going to cut it out make sure you cut both pieces of the little cardboard so after you cut it you can see it's a little ship it kind of opens like this hold it at the bottom then you're going to make a little hole at the very bottom where the fold is so you can stick your toothpick through it like this this is going to hold your sail next take your packing tape [Music] fold it into a little [Music] cut off the sticky parts once you fold your triangle you're going to make little slits so that you have holes to put your sail through the toothpick [Music] it's a little boat so i think we should name this one the nina and now we have to make the pinta and the santa maria [Music] so now we've got our nina pinta and santa maria and now i gotta go fill this with water we got water this is gonna be our ocean fill your jar to a little more than halfway because what we're gonna do is drop these ships in here but first we gotta make it blue because it's the ocean a little bit of blue food coloring nice not too much swish it around that's a pretty ocean we've got the nina the pinta and the santa maria so cute once you've got your ships on your ocean you're gonna add the baby oil on top of it to fill the jar all the way to the top so that there is no air left in the jar here we go here we go here we go [Music] it might get messy but that's okay [Music] so now this is the part for the super glue put a little bit of super glue around the jar to seal it shut [Music] you might need someone to help you [Music] and there you have your ships on a stormy sea [Music] this is really cool it takes a while for the oil and the water to settle but those ships are sailing we did it the nina the pinta and the santa maria on the stormy seas heading for america in your own house we hope you had fun if you've got ideas or questions for our next craftery send them our way keep crafting keep learning and keep celebrating land of the free and home of the brave i could watch this all day thank you for watching this video to keep prageru videos free please consider making a tax-deductible donation