summer day camp: big ships

Juma attended a day camp at a local hands-on museum this past week. The theme for his class was Big Ships, and each day they build a small model of a ship out of wood, and learned about what the ship does. All week long, they worked on one big ship. He had a ton of fun designing, painting, nailing, and gluing.

Here is Juma proudly displaying his work.

A tug boat, complete with magnet to pull along the big ship (see below):




A "booby tender," the ship that takes care of all the buoys.




A coal carrier, complete with little bits of coal:




A submarine:




And the big ship itself, a battle ship, equipped with more guns than the entire US Navy:




The battle ship also comes with lifeboats:




And on the disheveled inside, you can see the engine (roundish, on the left), and some prisoners with guards watching them: