Popsice Greenhouse

This will be simple, instructable achievable for grades 3-5. This will be a step-by-step tutorial where you will successfully make a popsicle stick greenhouse. This is a fun craft activity aimed at a 3-5 grade audience but can be done by everybody of all ages.

• one sheet of construction paper
• 20 popsicle sticks, if necessary
• scissors,
• a ruler,
• pencil,
• Elmer's Glue-All or hot glue gun,
• yarn
• and coloring pencil
• plastic wrap

• Students will be able to craft a popsicle greenhouse
• Students will be introduced to a functional example of a 3D craft
• students will learn the importance will understand the criteria and constraints for a greenhouse while also expanding their creativity in designing a greenhouse in their way

While this project is simple, it does not mean it refrains from addressing the standards, practices, and contexts that help students excel in their educational journey. Listed below are those standards, practices, and contexts that this project applies to students.

• (Standard 7) Design in Technology and Engineering Education - This is an artistically based project and will assist in any child's creative process and nature. Understanding the creative and design processes better in this project will help them apply that to other sorts of assignments.

• (Standard 2) Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering - Completing this project helps to explain to young students how parts that are seemingly unrelated can be used to create a whole product, given criterias and constraints.

Creativity - the creative process they will be asked to use can be applied to future assignments and assessments.

Making and Doing - This is a hands-on process that shows that creativity can create new physical products. And students will learn about the engineering design process and how to apply it to this and many other things.

Each student should take their first sheets of construction paper and then Lay down two Popsicle sticks the same distance apart as the length of one stick. Lay two more sticks on top of the first two forming a square, and Glue these at the corners to form a base

Next, we need to create the walls; we will need five individual walls that will all be made similarly. To create one wall, you will need four large popsicle sticks that will be First, attach two regular popsicle sticks by their sides. Next, mark 1/2" below the top of the two popsicle sticks and glue one of the large ones right below that mark; it is crucial to ensure that the large popsicle stick is perpendicular to each other. Once the large stick is glued on correctly, glue on the then you want to attach another two glued-together popsicle sticks. After this, repeat the process until you have four walls in total.

Connecting all of the pieces. make sure First the attach four popsicle sticks are securely glued to the construction paper Next, glue the side of the bottom onto the walls where there is more of the regular popsicle stick poking out; just like with the wall, try to make the bottom connect with the wall.

After putting together your foundation, you will want to build a roof. How I did it was I had two popsicles standing horizontally at the entrance of the greenhouse walls and two more popsicles at the back of the greenhouse walls. Then I created a beam of sorts that connected the two across the greenhouse, and on the sides is where I had two other popsicles merging slant into the beams on the sides of the walls.

After building the foundation and the roof, you want to ensure everything is wholly glued and secured. Then you want to lay a plastic wrap or any other see-through thin material that wouldn't have to break from the foundation then, completely wrap the outer layer in plastic wrap, and cut with scissors to the needed dimensions then finally, design and color to the way you want it to be designed.