“Little Drifters,” art boats made from natural materials

This just showed up in our inbox moments ago, and man does it ever look like a fun and creative way to spend a lazy summer afternoon. And it’d make a perfect MAKEcation project! Booooooom, the Vancouver arts community and blog, headed up by Jeff Hamada, hosted this event at Trout Lake in Vancouver last month. The idea was to build little boats, exclusively out of found natural materials (leaves, twigs, flowers, grass, etc), put them in the lake, and watch them drift away. Love the variety in the designs.

If you decide to build and launch little drifters of your own, take some photos and upload them to the MAKE Flickr pool.

(More images after the jump and plenty more on the following links)

[Thanks, Lenny!]

Little Drifters / Vancouver (gallery on Booooooom)

Little Drifters set sail in Vancouver (article in Vancouver Sun)