Supplies
Needed
*
7
Toilet Paper Rolls
* Cereal Box
* Glue
or Tape
* A Bit of Cotton (optional)
* Green, Black and Blue Construction Paper
or
Plain Paper and Crayons
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| You
can use a cereal box as your base if you do not have any empty
food boxes that are smaller. The bigger the box the more "land"
your cabin will be on, where you can add large rocks, a pond
and anything you like. You can use green construction paper
for the grass, blue for the pond and black for the rocks on
the land. |
| Step
1: Take your construction paper and cut strips the
width and length of the sides of the cereal box. A standard
piece of construction paper fits nicely over a standard cereal
box but if you need to you can trim a piece of the green construction
paper so that it fits over the front of the cereal box. Cut
out some rock like shapes of the black construction paper and
cut out a pond shape of the blue paper. |
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If you don't have colored construction paper you can have your
toddler color in the grass, rocks and pond on plain white paper
with crayons. |
| Step
2: Help your toddler glue the green paper around the
edges of the box and on the front of the box. Squirt the glue
yourself if it is too messy for your toddler to do it and have
them place the paper over it, and quickly adjust it if you need
to. Have them glue the "pond" on the box and the "rocks",
just make sure that they leave enough room to build the log
cabin. |
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| If
you don't have glue, or don't want to mess with it you can use
double sided sticky tape or standard tape. |
Step
3: Put a few dabs of glue on the green paper where
you want the first "log," the toilet paper roll,
and have your toddler place the roll onto the glue. Dab some
glue on the "log" and have your toddler add another
"log" on the first "log," and then one
more. Stand a toilet paper roll upright at the back of the
wall of logs you have just made to make a "chimney".
Build another wall of logs with the upright log between the
two walls. |
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| Again
if you are not using glue put some double sided sticky tape
in place of the dabs of glue. You can use standard tape and
simply make it like double sided sticky tape by connecting it
so it becomes a circle. |
| Step
4: Now cut a square plus triangle shape for the sides
of the house and glue it to the side of the cabin. Cut a piece
of contrustion paper that when folded fits your cabin as a roof
and place it over the trangle portion of the side of the cabin.
Add a bit of cotton to the top of the "chimney" to
create some "smoke." |
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| Feel
free to add a small triangle of construction paper over the
back part of the roof as well as windows and a front door to
your log cabin. |
