Useful Materials for Creating Models of Shelters
The following is a list of suggestions.
It is not necessary to assemble all of these.
If you find other items to add to this list,
please share them with us by contacting the webmasters!
- Raffia
- Willow branches or grapevine
(These can be soaked ahead of time in a bathtub and then curved into a circle, for use in longhouses and other rounded structures).
- Wooden Skewers
- Wooden dowels
- Twigs and Branches
- Leather thongs
- Popsicle sticks
- Assorted small boxes
- Flat corrugated cardboard for use as bases
- Twine
- Weeds
- Fake fur
- Fake leather fabric
- Felt (earth tones)
- Muslin
- Cotton Balls
- Styrofoam packing peanuts
- Pipe cleaners
- Air-drying clay
- Rocks and pebbles
- Sand
- Red paint (to simulate fire on ends of twigs)
- Single-face corrugated cardboard for roofs.
- Pipe cleaners
- Assorted tempera or acrylic paints
Tacky glue is great to have on hand, or, better still, an adult volunteer manning a hot glue gun.
To secure ends of sticks, skewers or dowels on the cardboard bases,
it is handy to first poke a hole all the way through the cardboard using an awl or a Philips screwdriver,
then place your posts and secure with hot glue.