My Sons First KinderGarden Project – The Hut Model

Every parent is going to come through his beautiful phase of our kid’s school projects, exams, practices, and charts. In the olden days, we as parents helped our kids with projects when they studied in 4th and 5th classes. I was really surprised to learn that my 4-year-old nursery boy had to do a school project on his own. This was part of his nursery class exam. I was shocked because when we were young, we just learned the alphabet and numbers until grade 1, and there were no other projects or assessment tests. But nowadays education system changed a lot for young kids. For older children, it is a bit the same but for preschool kids and KG kids, everything changed. I liked this change in the education system for young kids. It is good for the kid’s creativity and innovation skills. Kids and parents learn a lot through this. Teachers are focusing more on doing activities with kids like dancing, painting, reading stories, group games, paper cutting, clay models, drawing, and celebrating all the festivals and embracing the country’s culture.

However since KG and nursery students are very small and cannot do everything on their own, it is a parent’s project though it is given to kids. Parents have to do it all by themselves. From thinking about what model to do, what colors to use, how to stick cardboard, using chart papers, glue, plasters, etc. We just revisit our childhood school days when we start doing it. Trust me, you and your kid will enjoy a lot working on these school projects. When my kid got the project named Hut Model, I also had many doubts and since this was my first project I was very nervous and this was literally like an exam to me. I thought of making the best with a low budget and easily available materials. Some materials were at my home, some I bought online, and some I bought from local shops. It was an amazing experience and thatswhy I want to share it with you all. The images of the hut model are not very clear as I took photos from my old phone. So please ignore it. But I will tell you every detail of the project in this article and also give you links of the things that I bought for this project.

Materials required:-

• Thermocol board or Foam sheet as a base.
• 50 Ice cream sticks for making a fence.
• Glue or Fevistick to stick all the things together.
• Paper card box to make the hut.
• Real Mud from the park or from your garden to make it look real.
• Toy farm animals to keep in the garden.
• Plastic grass or real grass as the floor of the garden.
• Color papers to stick to the hut.
• Toothpicks to make doors and windows.
• Sweeper strings to make the hut roof.
• Toy people to make a realistic experience.

How to make it step by step:-

This project took me one week to prepare. My son was enjoying it just by seeing. He also helped me a lot by cutting the papers and applying glue. I used to explain everything and he also listened to me very interestingly. It’s not so hard to make it but I took time because I was busy with household things and 2 kids. So whenever I had free time I spent on this project. The school also gave so much time to do this project. They gave us 20 days to complete it.

1. The Hut:- It was so easy for me to make this hut because I already had a small Amazon cardboard box at home in which I got baby wipes from Amazon. So I didn’t need to stick each side of the hut with glue, as everything was ready in a box shape. Only one side of the box was open so I kept it upside down to stick the roof of the hut. For the small roof that is shown above the hut door, I just folded one side of the box and cut it in half, so that it looks like a small roof in front which acts as a shade for rain, sun, and dust from entering the hut. Then I applied red color paper for the hut and yellow color paper for the door and windows. We can actually paint it but applying colored paper was so easy.
2. The roof:- I took one long piece of cardboard paper. Folded it in half. Opened it again and put it above the hut in the shape of a triangle. Applied some paper glue on the side of the roof to stick to the hut completely.  To make it look like a real hut, I cut some old sweeper strings, put some glue on them, and stuck them on the roof of the hut. I just made sure that the roof is larger than the hut so that it acts as a shield against rain and sun rays going into the house through the side windows.
3. The doors and windows:- It was very easy to make doors and windows. Just cut 3 small sides in the middle of the hut for the door and for windows, you can either cut them just like 2 small doors in the middle of the wall or just put some square frame to make it look like a window. To make the door and windows look like real wood, I stuck toothpicks entirely on the door and made a square-shaped toothpick frame for the windows.

1. The grass:- We all know all villages have grass on the floors. And their houses are built in jungles and forest areas. So I ordered a plastic grass mat from Amazon. I put it under the hut and made it look like a garden. Since the mat is not firm or cannot be used as a strong base, I got a thermocol from a shop and put the grass mat on it. To make the grass mat stick on the thermocol I applied some scarf pins all around the mat to the thermocol so that it wouldn’t come out. In the middle of the grass, I put some real mud to make a road from the hut entrance door to the main gate or fence.
2. Farm animals:- Since villages have so many farm animals like cows, buffalo, hens, cats, dogs, and rabbits, I ordered all these online and stuck them on the grass with glue so that they don’t fall off when we try to move the hut model. Along with those toys, I also got a small brown colored plastic fence with 2 plastic coconut trees, and 2 small rocks. This made my work very easy and made the project look more beautiful. I made a small fence on the left side of the garden and put some cows, hens, and buffaloes in it along with some mud showing others that this is where the animals are kept in a village.  I also put other animals like cats, dogs, horses, and rabbits in the garden to make it look like a real village hut model.
3. The most beautiful garden bench:- This was the most beautiful part of the project. I ordered a mini couple on the bench toy from Amazon. It was a bit costly and very beautiful. I didn’t like to give it away to the school as I loved that couple’s toy a lot. But I thought they would return the project so gave it to the school. But the toy couple along with the bench never came back. But I got the whole project back.  I put that toy on the right side of the garden and made a small terrace above it with two ice cream sticks and a small bit of cardboard paper to look like a real garden. To stick that terrace on the grass, I had to cut the grass area on which the ice cream sticks were placed to stick it into the cardboard. Because the ice cream sticks were not sticking on the grass with glue. I cut some grass from the grass mat and stuck it above the small cardboard piece to make it look like a real wooden terrace.
4. The Main Gate Fence:- This was the easiest task. To make the fence just take 4 ice cream sticks and stick them together with 2 other ice cream sticks in a verticle position. Make at least 10 pairs of these fences and align them straight on the thermocol and push them inside the thermocol to fix it correctly. no need to apply any glue to it.

After the completion of the project, the teacher of my kid gave full marks to him. There were other kids too who did wonderful projects. We went to see all of them. Each student got different models and everyone had done their best. Making a school project like this is very exciting and kids enjoy it a lot. These creative ideas are necessary for every student in every class to make something innovative and creative. Kids learn a lot through this.