Yesterday I built a teepee and it felt amazing to do so.
It was started on Sunday when we had a fun day at the community garden and I worked on it yesterday. It reminded me of when I was a child and I used to make floor plans of homes.
I would draw floor plans, make floor plans out of grass clippings or my toys, I would imagine floor plans and play accordingly. I loved looking at display homes and my greatest dream would be that I could look inside all of the neighbourhood houses. I think you could say that I had an obsession with houses.
I reflect on this and think “How remarkable”! I had no desire to become an architect and even today I have no desire to be an architect. Yet here I am in a community garden building a primitive structure that reminds me of my childhood desire to create houses.
I get quiet distressed at what I call ugly new estates, where houses don’t make ecological sense. Houses should reflect personality not wealth. I believe that houses need to reflect an understanding to the environment and should be a place where we can be ourselves.
Any way, that’s enough of me preaching and here’s some pictures of my teepee.
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This reminds me of building grass houses in the hayfield behind my house as a child. My sister and I would weave the roof and hide out in the tunnels we made.
that sounds like a great memory. My hope is that kids of today will have that type of fun too xxxx
I hope you don’t mind that I have posted a link to this article on The Homeschool Club on Facebook in hopes that more homeschoolers will take the time to get kids outdoors and encourage them to create grass houses, huts, shelters and tepees.
Go for it!!!
Thank you so much for passing it on 🙂
This is mad tamar!! Love it, reminds me of a book I used to read over and over as a child called a house for ms mouse…about a mouse who was an architect and she used to design and build houses for other neighbouring animals 🙂
it was so much fun to make and has given me a strange confidence to be able to build my own house one day!!!
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