Completing my house

Now the plaster is dry I am going to cover the rest of the base in paper mache remembering to give different places different thicknesses (eg.the path has different thicknesses to the grass).

Here is a close up on what it looks like at the moment.

Now I have painted the house and the grass. I have added some little rock type things to fill in the path and around the pond, hen I glued some (plastic) grass ontop of the hill. After that i did some sketches on the butterflies and stuck them on. Then we added some cut up match sticks to the veggie patch to look like soil, then I attached a old propella on a stick to a wood cylinder

This is what it looks like now

this is the nearly finished picture but at another angle.

As you can see I added a scarecrow it is made out of an old bead and some wood, I also added some solar panels made out of scrap card and tin foil.

My Eco house is complete! I hope you enjoyed learning how I made it.

Hattie



Getting started

First, my mum helped me to cut out some special wood to be my base but, before I did that I had to plan out where everything was going to go. So I got a peice of paper and wrote down the key features that my eco house needs. After that, I got another piece of paper and drew a plan of what my eco house would look like. Now I needed my mum to help me cut out some special wood to be my base.

We marked out the shape in pencil and mum cut it out for me on one of her special saws. It's about half a metre square and has a random wavy line border. The next thing to do was make the shell of the house. The frame was made out of chicken wire which we shaped to look like a hill. Next we added the bottom bit of a Screwball lolly as a sunlight catcher. We then covered it in a special plaster to make the shell hard. We're now waiting for that to dry and then we can paint it.

The last job in this step was to mark out the various areas of the garden, for example a pond, pathway and alotment. We did this by screwing up pieced of newspaper and sticking then down in unsual places to mark each of the areas.

Hattie's year 5 school project

My school homework for this term is to focus on the environment and sustainability. Here you can read all about what I've chosen to do - a model of an eco-home which includes all the elements you'll ever need for the perfect eco home.  Mummy has helped me build the model and Daddy has helped with this blog but they've only helped to get both started - the ideas, creative thought and hard work have all been mine.

Hope you enjoy reading all about my eco house and seeing how it develops. Feel free to ask questions or suggest what else I might add.