Water Bottle Rafting

by Danielle · February 17, 2016

Are you creative and have a sense of adventure? If so, read this post….

First let me say, I think drinking from a re-usable container is a better idea for the environment vs. other non-reusable options. That said, the water at my work comes from old pipes and just isn’t good. I now generally bring water with in these containers which I love:

They are not very pretty anymore since they have been used a lot but they still work great for me.

They have been used a lot so they don’t look as nice as they used to but they still work great for me.

HOWEVER, until I got them I would bring a gallon of bottled water with me to work each week. My co-worker, Sandra, also would bring one. One day we were gathering our empty bottles from a shelf in her office to take to recycling and we noticed that their design allowed for them to stack quite nicely. “Hey, what if we made a raft out of these??” I said, to which Sandra laughed at me. Then we both got quiet for a minute thinking about how it might be possible and BAM! a new project was in the works.

We saved up our water bottles and met at my house to construct it. Being the type of people who get distracted easily we interrupted our raft project with a quick game of human bowling. This was another one of those “Hey, what if we….” moments that developed into a game. We got some floor polish, a large pillow case, our friend Skyler, and a few water bottles. This video is our result:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9IIZjwIJ7I&feature=youtu.be

Anyway, back to the raft idea…

So, we lined up our bottles into a shape that resembled a raft, dug a roll of duck tape out of the garage, got a roll of cling wrap from the kitchen, and Viola!! a raft was made. It sat in our garage through the winter/spring and when summer rolled around we were ready to test it out.

We had a blast and the raft handled amazingly. We floated down the river on it for 2+ hours and got lots of amused looks from people along the way. When we were done with or mini river adventure we passed it along to another person who was excited to take it on future float trips. It wasn’t pretty but it was functional and fun.