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| How to create a model of the Globe Theatre! |
| This is the model that Lyndi and A created, with help from various family members! ;) |
| This is sort of a side view of the theatre. You can kinda see how the backside of it looks in this picture... |
| This is the... little house thingys. |
| Here's a pic of the stage that Lyndi and A created using toothpicks and kabob sticks. |
| ...This is what the inside looks like. |
| This is Lyndi with a popsicle stick hot-glued to her fingernail. |
| First of all, you're gonna need LOTS of popsicle sticks, some toothpicks, 4 or 5 kabob sticks, some paint stirrer stick things, cutting pliers, a hot-glue gun, lots of hot-glue sticks, duct tape, some sort of flag to top the creation, a little brains and lots of patience! ;) |
| 1. When you've got all your "ingredients" together, you can begin to make the bottom of the first floor, the base. Lyndi's dad made the base for this theatre, and it's a good thing he did, cause Lyndi and A's might not have held up that well! ;) He lined up lots of popsicle sticks and hot-glued pieces of paint stirrer stick things to them to hold them all together, creating a wall, then in the same way made the floor. Then he hot-glued the floor to the wall. To cover up the triangular holes that ended up being in the corners, he just glued some popsicle stick pieces across them. To hold the floor up in the front, we hot-glued small pieces of paint stirrer stick things together then glued them to the bottom of the floor to act sort of like a block...And that's the base! |
| 2. After the base was built, Lyndi and A played with the hot-glue gun and made lots of "walls and floors" so we could have a stockpile of them while building the theatre. To make the "walls and floors", we lined up 13 popsicle sticks then cut a paint stirrer stick thing into a couple of pieces that were a little shorter than the width of the popsicle sticks, so that when we glued two paint stirrer stick thing pieces to the popsicle sticks, they all stuck together. |
| 3. When we had the walls and floors made, we began to hot-glue them to the base to create the second floor. To create a beam to hold up the second floor, we clipped each end of a popsicle stick with cutting pliers, so that it was square on the ends, and hot-glued one end flush with the top of the first floor and the other end flush with the bottom of the second floor. |
| 4. The third floor is made just like the second floor... |
| 5. Lyndi duct taped a lot of popsicle sticks together to make the roof panels; then A's older brother helped Lyndi hot-glue them to the top of the third floor first, then hot-glue the peaks together. They hot-glued popsicle sticks to the top of the peak to make it look asthetically pleasing to the eye. ;) |
| 6. Lyndi used pre-cut interlocking popsicle sticks to create the "square" of the little house things, then used cutting pliers to cut the door frame out. For the roof, Lyndi and A hot-glued the top edges of popsicle sticks together until it fit nicely on top of the little house things. To make the little porch thingy, Lyndi lined up popsicle sticks until they were wide enough, then superglued popsicle sticks to the bottom to hold them together. Then she super-glued the porch on the top of the third floor in the center. Then she glued the little house thingys on the top of the third floor. |
| 6. A hot-glued pices of toothpicks to kabob sticks to create the railing for the stage. Lyndi broke a fourth of the toothpicks off to make it flat so that it would lie flush with the stage. A's brother used paint stirrer stick things to create a ...block thing... to hold up the stage. A hot-glued kabob sticks to the beams on the second and third floors to create railings, so that the imaginary little people wouldn't fall onto the stage. |
| 7. Last but not least, Lyndi hot-glued the flag to the top of the tiny little house thingy to finish the project! :D |
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| Have you created a model similar to this one? Send us pics, cause Lyndi and A want to see it! What do you think of Lyndi and A's model? Let us know by leaving your comment in the GuestBook! |
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