Yesterday I got the kids to make up
simple floor plans for their dream houses.
This is Ethan's downstairs. It
has a mega living room complete with a wall-to-wall tv/movie viewing
screen, plenty of couches, a vending machine and a snack stand.
His bathroom has a heated jet spa in it. He has a nice big cat
play room, a long dining room so he can cook for and entertain lots
of friends and a large kitchen with granite counters all the way
around.
Emily's main want was a large room
where she could have pet wolves live. She also included a
kitchen, bathroom, tv room and two bedrooms.
I then transferred them as exactly as
I could onto big pieces of cardboard (making sure that I measured
each room to either the inch marks or half inch marks to make the
tiling work out) as official blueprints of their houses. I cut
out 1 inch square "tile" pieces from construction paper and had the
kids measure their rooms and order the correct amount of tiles to
cover their floors per room and then to tile them.
This is the official blueprint for
Ethan's downstairs part of the house.
This is Emily's.
Here is the Home Depot tile order
center.
They had fun "ordering" the exact
color tiles that they wanted per room and seeing if they were right
with the amount in the end. Below are the finished rooms.
Ethan added a black tiled yacht dock to the back of his house and
Emily decided on a multicolored tile floor for her guest bedroom.
Ethan has plans for his bedroom on
his second floor. We haven't tried to make that one yet.
We are thinking of making it as a 2nd story really would be and
supporting it over the first floor with toilet paper tubes.
We'll see how it goes. Below is his drawing. It has a jacuzzi,
water bed, couch, all the newest game systems, a robot station to do
all the tasks or chores he needs to do, shelves and shelves of video
games, and the bbtvktmkoak (a.k.a. the biggest best tv known to
mankind or alien kind)
I think it might be fun to do something
along this line as well. This family made up a website for
their daughter called
Trading Boxes. The daughter trades boxes with friends to
make newly decorated rooms for each other. They did some
really cute decorating. The picture below is from their
website. I'm thinking that we could use our newly acquired
area measuring skills when decorating these box rooms. Click
here to see more
of their creations.
We might do something with these
sites later.
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