Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Milk Jug Igloo

So after I saw some crazy thing on the internet about a kindergarten class saving up enough plastic milk jugs to make an igloo--I thought, sure I can do that at home.  So through the use of freecycle, several wonderful people saved their milk jugs for me.  In the end I had over 350 milk jugs.  It took just over 2 months and over 250 sticks of hot glue, but the product is finished, well as finished as I am going to go with it, let me explain.  Here is the final product.

My original plan was to make a doorway and go all out and make it look like an igloo, but half way through we had to do a major reconstruction due to an accident the igloo had suffered at the hands of my children.  So I thought more of a cavelike structure would be a much better fit for our needs. 

Here are a few other construction photos. 




The kids are very excited, and it is big enough to sleep in, so we plan on having a few camps outs, in the event that it lasts, I fear it won't last as long as I want. 

Thank you so much to everyone who helped me accomplish this!


1 comment:

  1. Thanks for sharing this photo! I had 6 more jugs sitting here to take over to Barbarella! Glad to see the finished project!

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