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No time or money to visit the Nubble Lighthouse in York, Maine?
Don't worry you can create your own Maine lighthouse from the privacy of your
own home courtesy of Campbell's, Post, and General Mills.
Supplies Needed: empty cereal boxes: small and large
empty soup cans: 12 oz
empty large can - 32 oz (Large Pumpkin or tomatoes cans work great)
empty plastic container from Fruitsensations Applesauce
White Glue
Double Stick Tape
Paints (poster, acrylic, or other kids paint)
Directions:
The Lighthouse:
1. Take a clean Fruitsensation container and
place it on the open end of the soup can. It should fit snuggly on the can.
This is the top of your lighthouse.
2. Glue a small can in the center of a down large 32 oz can.
You will be gluing bottom to bottom so that the ends are the open can.
Take a thick bead of glue around the rim of the small can to add strength to
your glue job.
3. Let dry for 24 hours.
4. After your glue is dry, paint the lighthouse any colors you
want. We used white for ours but found it to be too boring for our tastes. We
ended up painting red stripes up our lighthouse to give it some pizzazz. You
can use any colors you want. To find more pictures of Maine Lighthouses click
the following link: http://usa.visitmaine.com/category/act_sightseeing_lighthouse.php
Tip: If you don't like the ledge effect of
having a small can on top of a large can. Cover the top can all the way to the
rim of the large can with a piece of heavy construction paper so that it creates
an angled effect similar to real lighthouses.
The Buildings:
1. Use cereal boxes of different sized and thickness for your
houses. We used one family size granola bars box, several large cereal boxes,
an empty plastic wrap container, and one Cream of Wheat box.
2. To create a house, cut a shape similar to the one below.
You will make this cut on both sides of the box.
3. Use a separate cereal box to cut the roof shapes out.
4. Use double stick tape to connect the roof to the house.
5. Paint your houses making sure to add windows and doors. To
create a working door cut the door along three sides so that it can open and
close.
Tips: Because we all have different sized boxes
in our houses, you will need to use your imagination to determine how to create
your houses. Below is what we did to create ours.
For a small house similar to the one in front of Lighthouse
picture above, we cut a triangle shape out of the top of a Cream of Wheat box
leaving the bottom of the box intact. We then placed doubled stick tape on the
open edges. Next, we cut a long stripe for the roof which we folded in half
and placed on the other end of the double stick tape.
For the back house, we used a family size granola bar box. We
didn't cut it at all. We used a wide sheet from another cereal box for the roof.
We bent the sheet in half long ways and glued a paper tube in the middle so
that it kept it shape.
We also added a small connector house similar to the one in
the picture. We taped shut a plastic wrap box and painted it.
Lastly, my daughter created a fake ocean by painting paper towels
with glitter glue. Then she wrinkled them up and let them dry. If you don't
have glitter glue add blue food coloring and glitter to white glue to get a
similar effect.
When your all done you will have your very own lighthouse to
play with.
Candace Huber is the original creator of Onawhim.us an interactive art portal for kids. Candace left Onawhim to establish the dynamic graphic design firm, Speckle Hen Media. Take a gander on over to Speckle Hen Media to see what Candace is up to now.
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