Wednesday, January 15, 2014

We’re Building an Igloo

Have you seen blogs that show how to build an igloo using milk jugs?  Here is one from Little Giraffes Teaching Ideas that I thought would be manageable.  It only needs about 130 jugs.  I'm sure we could collect that many.
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So during December I started asking friends, teachers and families from
                     StrongStart to begin to save jugs.
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     Last week the jugs started to be delivered and we started building.
jan 6 006  jan 6 005 We placed yarn on the floor to help make the round shape, it turned out more
                                           like a horseshoe.

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We had to wait a couple of days before we had enough to add another row.  But in the meantime the children found other ways to enjoy the igloo.  The jugs work well as drums.
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And trying to take them apart was a popular activity, as well as playing with the
                                               loose jugs.

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Just gluing the jugs together wasn’t strong enough so I started wrapping each row with packing tape.   As the walls got higher the children explored the inside and continued playing with the loose jugs.

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Four rows high and we’re ready to start the beginning of the roof.  I attached a board across the opening so the row will be a complete circle.  Lots of jugs arrived today and these boys are placing them around to see if there is enough for the whole row.
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       Or maybe they were just emptying the box so they could play with it.

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This is how it looked at the end of the day.  
About 60 more jugs should be enough.  
Stay tune.