The Story of a House Activity
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Recycling Houses
Author Miki Conn joined us for a live reading of her fabulous book, The Story of A House. We loved how the house was loved and grew so much we created a fun craft to go with it.
Here’s what you’ll need:
How to do it:
Pick your recycled item.
Wrap it with construction paper and tape it on.
Draw on doors, windows, and any details you like: porches, stoops, lintels, cornices (our. ABCs of architecture posts might give you some ornamental ideas)
Make an easy gabled roof by folding the paper in half and putting it on top. Or get fancy and make a hipped roof by starting with a square piece of paper, fold it in half to make a triangle. Unfold, and refold making a triangle in the other direction. When unfolded, you’ll have an X on your paper. This little shape with four triangles is.a hipped roof. The roof can be taken on from underneath or just sit on top.
Fun details! Make your house prettier by adding details out of cut paper like shutters or maybe shingles on the roof. The sky is the limit how much detail you can add to your houses.
Use other recycling to make other blocks that can be added to your house. A cider bottle can become a porch. A paper towel tube can be a Victorian turret, berry boxes can make a stoop when stacked up. Toilet paper tubes can be chimneys.
Put all of your house parts together to see how your house can grow and change!
Make you’re house along with Cara in this how to video.
