Let’s continue our practice building houses for fairies and gnomes and see if we can’t build something a little bit bigger so they can have some friends over.
You will need:
- 4 sticks the same length
- 1 stick a bit longer than the others
- 5-8 pipe cleaners
- soft ground
- a small blanket or piece of cloth
- clothes pegs
Last week we learned how to make a tipi style shelter.
This week we are going to start with a similar shelter but instead of 3 sticks the same length we will add one that is a bit longer. When you stand it up you can see the longer stick makes more room for storage at the back of our house. But we are going to continue and make even more room.
The full scale inspiration for this Woodland Forest Shelter
After you have made your modified tipi. Take your two remaining sticks and make another X in the same manner you started the tipi.
Take the end of your long stick and place it between the top of your second X and viola! A frame stick shelter.
It is going to fall down very easily until you secure the poles. You can do that by pressing the ends of the Xs into the ground or tying the ends of your ridge pole to a tree.
Now that you have a frame your next task is to build walls. You can use more sticks and bark and lean them up against the edges or you can use your bit of fabric or blanket and peg it with a clothes peg.
After you have built the walls you might want to decorate. You can use leaves, grass, flowers, pinecones. Whatever you want to lean up against the walls of your mini shelter. When you’ve done decorating it’s time to play!
Find some toy animals and see what they think of your creation.
Maybe you can build a whole town of shelters for your toys.