The really big milk carton Igloo

It’s not often I pass on plays I’ve seen rather than done. But I saw this sitting outside my boys’ old nursery and had to find out more. They’ve been collecting 4 litre milk cartons from their parents to build igloos. This one stands about four foot high, and seems to be able to take three of four kids inside.

You will need
at least 150 4 litre milk cartons
a hot glue gun and a couple of those rubbery refills
a meter ruler/ thin plank to serve as the lintel

You might want to run the milk-cartons through a cool dishwasher to stop the slightly cheesey pong that could develop. Make a horse-shoe of twenty to thirty bottles, bottoms outwards, making sure that the doorway is narrower than your lintel beam. Hot glue (a growed-ups job) spots together somewhere away from any carpet you wish to keep. Then lay and glue the next ring in between the ‘bricks’ of the first… I believe brickies call this regular stagering a ‘header bond’, though I always have it classed as a ‘my first duplo’ wall. Now build up layer by layer, perhaps starting to shape it over into that classic igloo shape, until you get to the top of the door where you add in the lintel and build across. Then start to make the roof come in in earnest until its all glued up. Now, after you’ve been good and recycled any spares, it’s time to crawl in and read books to everyone’s hearts’ content.

Enjoy

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