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Shape House
Materials: construction paper, glue
Have a variety of construction paper squares, rectangles, and triangles prepared for this project. Ask the students to glue the shapes on their paper to make their house or apartment. After the shapes are glued to the paper have students add house features such as doors and windows with crayons.
Folded House
Materials: Paper, crayons or markers.
Fold large sheets of construction paper in half and cut the top in the shape of triangular roofs. Once you have a class set of folded houses ask the students to add the critical attributes of a house or apartment to the front. Next, they can open the house and draw what is found inside. (this project is the perfect companion to “In a People House”)
Class Mural
Materials: butcher paper, construction paper, glue, crayons or markers.
Using a large sheet of butcher paper (color of your choice) have the students each make a small construction paper house to add to the class mural. You might want to add the school as the central point on your “map”. Have the students add features such as roads, buildings found in your community, and favorite stores. You can even add environmental print for the stores like McDonald’s or Wal Mart. This mural could be a starting point for learning about homes, then extended upon when you learn about community. You could leave it up from the time you study homes until you get to community and then add the community features at that time.
Collage House
Materials: old magazines, scissors, glue, butcher paper, black marker.
Cut a large house shape from butcher paper. Divide the house into “rooms” using a black marker and hang on the wall near your art center. During center time let the students cut pictures for each room from old magazines and glue on the collage.
Class Phone Book
Materials: student photos, glue, scissors, construction paper, sentence strips, markers.
Make a class phone book to keep in the writing center. Make a cover for your class phone book using construction paper (triangle for roof, square for house), decorate it with markers and give it a title like “Our Class Phone Book”. Next, glue each student’s photo to a sentence strip and write his or her phone number using the marker. Glue each sentence strip to a piece of construction paper and write the child’s address below the phone number. Once all the pages are finished, laminate and bind into a class book.
