Milk Jug Igloo

 

            The dog days of summer are coming. You KNOW you're going to be hot!

 

            Well, use your imagination to stay cool . . . and make a one-of-a-kind play fort for indoors or outside.

 

            Transport yourself, at least mentally, to the Arctic Circle, with a hot-glue gun and as many washed-out empty gallon milk jugs as you can scrounge from family, neighbors and friends. It might take you a while to collect enough, but it'll be worth it. Won't it?

 

            All you have to do to prepare is to cut off the top one-third or so of each jug, so that the spout is off. You'll make the igloo "bottoms out," with the bottom of each milk jug facing out. Use hot-glue to secure them to each other.

 

            Here's an igloo that took 400 milk jugs, from a Midwestern grade school. You have to admit, just looking at this makes you feel cool . . . because it is:

 

By Susan Darst Williams • www.GoBigEd.com • After School Treats 6/23/06 • © 2006