Boat-Links is subtitled "The Mother of All Maritime
Links," and it's rightly named. The site is a comprehensive collection of
hundreds of free printable maritime and lighthouse activities, resources about nautical
science, navigation, sailing, maritime history, merchant marine, the U.S. Navy,
naval history in other countries, naval warfare, maritime museums around the
world, nautical music and boat images.
Celestial Navigation offers free printable vintage maritime
activities. Before modern navigation, pirates and sailors relied on the sky
to guide voyages. Ancient instruments such as the sextant, astrolabe,
cross-staff, quadrant, kamal (latitude hook) and nocturnal were indispensable.
This site shows how to make old navigational tools.
US Lighthouse Society has free printable lighthouse lesson plans, crafts, coloring pages, worksheets and educational materials. You
must create a user Id to access. Boats, Ships and Subs has dozens of links for free printable paper boat models. There are sailing
vessels from all periods in history, including clipper ships, Chinese junks,
Roman warships, Coast Guard boats, viking long boats, pirate ships and models
of the Titanic and Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki.
Disney Experience has free printable nautical toys and crafts from maritime-themed Disney movies. There's a Spanish
galleon, Capt. Nemo's Nautilus, Jack Sparrow's compass, dead man's chest,
Cortez's treasure chest, a Mark Twain riverboat and several other models. The
Toymaker has a free printable puppet theater in which children can act out the adventures
of Florimel the Magnificent. Florimel is a rabbit sailor who has adventures on
the high seas in a boat that looks very like Sir Francis Drake's "Golden
Hind."
Yes, Coloring has has dozens of realistic free printable coloring pages of
boats,
ships and submarines for many periods in history. There are also coloring pages of pirate ships.
