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Paper Bag Teepee

Make an real looking Great Plains Indian Teepee. We took the designs for making an authentic teepee and used household materials to form a replica.

Time to Complete : < 30 minutes

Difficulty : Easy

Submitted By : Crafty Shops Creative Staff

Materials Needed

1. Find four fairly straight sticks or twigs, each about 12 inches.

2. Pack of toothpicks (4 or 5 per teepee)

3. Large paper grocery bag

4. Yarn or Twine

5. Glue

6. Scissors

7. Paints (Bright Red, Blue, Yellow, and Brown)

8. Hand held hole puncher

9. Pin or thumb tack

Instructions

1. Find four fairly straight sticks or twigs each about 12 inches long

2. Form the twigs into a four-point freestanding structure and connecting them by weaving yarn or twine around the twigs at the top.

3. Measure the length of your sticks from where they are connected to the point at which they touch the floor.

4. Cut the bottom out of the paper bag, so that it lays flat forming a long rectangle.

5. You will cut out a half circle that is as deep as the length of your sticks and twice as long as that number.

6. Cut out a regtangle using the dimensions above.

7. Fold the Newly cut rectangle in half long ways.

8. Cut a deep quarter circle from the bottom of the fold to the top of the outer perimeter.

9. When you open the paper bag half circle you will see your skin or wrap for your teepee.

10. Wrap the skin around the stick structure to make sure that it fits.

11. Lay your skin down and paint your designs. Note : Teepee usually have geometetrical shapes and mystical animals like deer, turtles, buffalo and use colors found in nature like reds, blues, yellows, and black.

12. Punch holes about one inch apart around the bottom of the teepee or the around the circular part. Lace string through the holes to give the effect of how the Indians would attach it to the ground. fold the ends of the skin under and paste it to seal

13. Make door - Cut a circle out of the extra pieces. Draw an inner circle about a half inch in. Cut slits from the out cirle in about a centimeter apart. Cut along the inner circle every other section. Fold the existing sections in. Take a piece of

14. Wrap your skin around the twig structure with the overlap in front.

15. Poke holes with a thumb tack on each side of the overlap. Make two above the door and two below.

16. With the toothpick position above the door, put your teepee door loop through the toothpick (pin) before you poke it through the second hole.

17. Traditionally, Indians used pins to hold their teepee together, we will use toothpicks. From Inside the structure, poke a toothpick through the thumb tack holes and push the tooth pick down through the opposite hole.

18. Now you have a traditionally looking replica of a great plains teepee.

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