Welcome to the Paper-hood
What’s your favorite thing about your home? Is it your playroom or bedroom with all of your toys and clothes? Or the kitchen where your parents make yummy food? Or maybe the room where your whole family watches movies together? Kids in South America love their homes too – even if they look a little different than yours!
Today, let’s make two houses out of paper – one for you, and one for a kid in a South American country – and fill them with families and fun!
Supplies
- 2 sheets of rectangular paper (we suggest 11x17”)
- scissors
- crayons and markers
- glue
- “building supplies” — South American houses are often VERY colorful, so gather decorations like paper, washi tape and markers in many bright colors
Step 1
Adult help needed. Place a sheet of paper in front of you, with one of the long edges facing you. Fold the paper in half, bringing the left edge to the right edge. Make a crease and unfold.
Step 2
Fold the left edge of the paper to the middle crease you just made. Repeat with the right edge, folding it to the middle crease too.
Step 3
With your paper folded, this is the front of your house. Draw your roof and windows.
Step 4
Cut your roof into a different shape if you’d like, and then cut window openings.
Step 5
With another sheet of paper, repeat steps 1 through 4, so you have two houses.
Step 6
Decorate the outside of the houses, so one looks like your house, and one looks like a house in South America. You can ask an adult to help you research pictures of homes in other countries.
Supplies
- 2 sheets of rectangular paper (we suggest 11x17”)
- scissors
- crayons and markers
- glue
- “building supplies” — South American houses are often VERY colorful, so gather decorations like paper, washi tape and markers in many bright colors
Step 1
Adult help needed. Place a sheet of paper in front of you, with one of the long edges facing you. Fold the paper in half, bringing the left edge to the right edge. Make a crease and unfold.
Step 2
Fold the left edge of the paper to the middle crease you just made. Repeat with the right edge, folding it to the middle crease too.
Step 3
With your paper folded, this is the front of your house. Draw your roof and windows.
Step 4
Cut your roof into a different shape if you’d like, and then cut window openings.
Step 5
With another sheet of paper, repeat steps 1 through 4, so you have two houses.
Step 6
Decorate the outside of the houses, so one looks like your house, and one looks like a house in South America. You can ask an adult to help you research pictures of homes in other countries.
Supplies
- 2 sheets of rectangular paper (we suggest 11x17”)
- scissors
- crayons and markers
- glue
- “building supplies” — South American houses are often VERY colorful, so gather decorations like paper, washi tape and markers in many bright colors
Step 1
Adult help needed. Place a sheet of paper in front of you, with one of the long edges facing you. Fold the paper in half, bringing the left edge to the right edge. Make a crease and unfold.
Step 2
Fold the left edge of the paper to the middle crease you just made. Repeat with the right edge, folding it to the middle crease too.
Step 3
With your paper folded, this is the front of your house. Draw your roof and windows.
Step 4
Cut your roof into a different shape if you’d like, and then cut window openings.
Step 5
With another sheet of paper, repeat steps 1 through 4, so you have two houses.
Step 6
Decorate the outside of the houses, so one looks like your house, and one looks like a house in South America. You can ask an adult to help you research pictures of homes in other countries.
