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Grade: K-2

Age: 4-6

Activity Summary:

What You Need:

• blue construction paper
• brown and green construction paper scraps
• glue
• scissors
• example/model of finished product
• books and illustrations of log cabins

What You Do:

Introduction:

Procedure:

1. Choose a color of paper for the background of the log cabin, be it blue for the sky, plain white, etc.

2. Have students choose brown scraps from your scrap box, or use brown construction paper. This will be the material for the "logs" of the house. Discussion point: There can be many different browns because not all trees are the same color, and different trees may have been used to build one log cabin.

3. Children should cut the scraps into strips about as long and as wide as their finger. Show an example of a good size strip (.5 inches wide to 3 inches long) as some children with may have very small hands, and their strips will be too thin and take too long to compile.

4. In my class we discussed how a log cabin is built by laying one log (brown paper strip) on another, leaving room for windows and doors (children may want to pencil these in). Not all the logs fit together smoothly, so it is OK if not all the strips fit together smoothly. Just fill the spaces in with mud (color in between the spaces with black) crayon.

5. Children should cut strips and paste onto the paper, leaving room for windows and doors. They complete the cabin with the roof, which consists of diagonally placed strips.

6. Green scraps may be used to represent trees, bushes, etc.

Notes:

Good luck and have fun!

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