Teepee Model

   Below is a picture of our region's home, the teepee. Our region is the Western Plains. Since we are the Western Plains, we are nomads. Nomads travel a lot, so the teepee is easy to take down. The materials are simple. There are wooden poles for the base, and there is buffalo hide on the outside over the poles to cover.
    For our real project, we started by scratch. For the first part of the teepee, we got a piece of plain cardboard for the base. After that, we got a bottle of glue, and fake grass. We dribbled the glue over the cardboard, and then we spread it around with a stick. We then sprinkled the fake grass over it, and if it was in clumps, we spread that around too. The next thing we got was dirt and woodchips from outside on the playground. I brought some pebbles from my house. We took the pebbles, and we each got three pebbles to glue onto the cardboard. We sprinkled the dirt over the grass, and pebbles. There was some leftover cardboard from when we cut out the base, so we used that as buffalo hide. We cut out a circle for the teepee base. I folded the cardboard into the shape of a teepee, and we glued it together with tacky glue. Anna made a zigzag piece of fabric, and she put stitches into it so it looked handmade. I cut out a tiny circle of cardboard, and I colored it in with a black marker, and kept on coloring it until it was full, and really dark black. I folded a tiny tab on the circle, and glued the tab onto the teepee with tacky glue. We used wooden sticks, and put it through the tiny hole at the top of the teepee. The last thing we did was making a name plate. It said: WESTERN PLAINS TEEPEE By: Anna, Reilly, Jordan, Jaylen, and Demetrielle. Here is a picture of our teepee.