Art for Kids: How to Make a Learning House

Video Transcript

"So for this clip, we're going to make a learning house. For this you will need some thin card, some white card, scissors, felt-tip pens, and glue. Now each piece of card, I'm going to fold in half and on the outside, draw on it to make it look like a window. So that means I can draw a window frame, maybe the dividers for the window, and maybe, if you want you can do some fancy curtains on the outside. So that's a window. When the window opens, inside, you can choose who in your family you want inside. So I think I'm going to draw Daddy here. He's got his ears. This is a funny Daddy. He's got spiky hair. I'll do a number two, that'll do his eyes, and he's smiling. Another eyebrow, there's Daddy standing there. He's got his best T-shirt on, that has a picture of a flag on it. There we go. And on this side, to help us learn the words, I'm going to write "here is dad." Close him up and we'll get him ready to stick on. I think this one could be Mummy's window. So we'll make her a nice frilly curtain, shall we, all the way down, and some dividers. She's watering the plants, I think, in her front window. There she is, "here is mum." That' one's ready. You can do whoever you want in the other windows. You might want to do a pet or you might want to do an uncle. You might want to do the goldfish. Now then, all of those doors need to be closed and stuck onto the background. So we'll get our glue ready and we'll decide where to place them on the house. The door will have to go downstairs, won't it. So some blobs of glue, all the way around the edges, and press it down onto the front of the house. Nice and straight, and count to ten. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. And that should have them good and stuck. Do the same for each window. Press them really well down. Press them well down and don't forget to put the glue on the back and spread it right out to the corners, but only put it on the back of the bit with the picture on it. Leave the other half so it flaps. So that one's going to go there. Press it right down and count to ten. We haven't got the roof on so a little bit of glue along the edge, all the way along and press down the roof. And then you can decorate your house if you want to. So we can open the doors by going knock knock. Open the door. Here is me. Knock knock. Open the window. Here is Dad. Knock knock. Oops. Knock knock. Open the window. Here is Mum. And the last one. Knock knock. Open the window. Here is the cat. Ha ha! Bye bye everybody. Close the doors, and that's how to make a learning house. And you could put whoever you like in the last window. Nobody's there yet."