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Brittany of Suffolk, VA
Try out a tent made from tubes and tape.
- cardboard shoeboxes
- thumbtacks or push pins
- string
- straws
- scissors
- stuff from around your house to make your tent, like...
- wrapping paper tubes
- broomsticks
- tape
- rope
- sheets
- shower curtain
- Check with a grown-up before you get started.
- What if you didn't have a tent to sleep in when you went camping? You can make your own tent using materials you find around the house.
- First you'll need to make sure you have a good tent design. Start by building a tent model on top of a cardboard shoebox. The ZOOMers used straws as tent poles. Then they stretched string over the poles and used thumbtacks to anchor the string to the box.
- Test out a few different designs on your shoeboxes. Think about the size and shape you want your tent to be, how complicated it would be to set up, how portable it would be, and if it would have enough room to sleep in. As you test different designs, remember that the tension on the string keeps the poles from falling and holds the tent together.
- Once you've chosen the best design, find the materials you need to build a full-scale tent based on your design model. If you're building your tent indoors, your materials don't need to be waterproof. We've listed a bunch of household items above that you might use for your tent.
- If you build your tent outside, you might want to use different materials. Like, you might want to have plastic on the floor so your sleeping bags don't get damp - or you could use stakes instead of tape to hold the ropes in place.
- Test it out, and then send an e-mail to tell us how it went!
Cammie, age 12 of Vidor, TX wrote:
it all fell with a boom
Erin of Cobbs Lake Preserve, PA wrote:
well it worked good.
Jessica, age 10 of Portdover wrote:
it word for one min & then it fell a part
Soubia, age 6 of Hackensack wrote:
it was hard and then I got it.
Sara, age 11 of Northampton, PA wrote:
Well when me and my friend tried to to build it at first it fell, but then we put duct ape and it really worked!!!
Cadesha, age 14 of Warner Robins, GA wrote:
it was very intent but I was very fun... thanks zoom you are the best.
Matthew, age 10 of Miami wrote:
it didn, t look right
Katie of Toronto wrote:
It kept on falling on me... but when I straightened it up it worked!!:)
Alexis, age 9 of Bristol, CT wrote:
when you have a bunk bed grab two blankets see the holes put 1 faceing left and the other put to the right
Alishia, age 10 of Philadelphia wrote:
I tired to build it but it capey falling down can you give me some tips?
Natalie, age 8 of Fayetteville, PA wrote:
it fell down on me
Julia, age 8 of Lindsborg, KS wrote:
It kept falling down. But Finaly staied up.
Sydney, age 7 of Plainville wrote:
I was trying to build a tent but it was braking every time I was making it. The end
Haileigh, age 8 of Beatrice wrote:
it stayed up it stayed up! well sorta. kinda. have you tried it yet? you should cause it is very very fun!. I am telling you the truth. zoom is the best!
Grace, age 11 of North Hills, CA wrote:
2 days ago when I built a tent it seemed very sucsesful but wen I crawled into it it fell.
Samantha, age 7 of Charlestown, RI wrote:
it almost colaspsed that is what happened when I did it
Kaycee, age 12 of Brandon, SD wrote:
it was awsome my parents were amazed on how it worked. I made it big enough for 3 people to sleep in. my sister and my 2 borthers. they thought it was cool.
Janan, age 6 of Florida wrote:
It was awsome really awsome.
Nora, age 10 of Spring Valley, NY wrote:
when I did it was cool
Hania, age 7 of Detroit, MI wrote:
I got to do it my self and it worked.
Taylor, age 7 of Old Bridge, NJ wrote:
I went to build a tent and it fell on top of me.
ZOOM Fan, age 9 of Patton, MO wrote:
It clapsed!
Amanda of Auburn, MA wrote:
It was very hard.
Tamara, age 7 of Yorkton, MB wrote:
It did not fall down at all. me and my friend slept in!!!
Raven, age 8 of Chicago, IL wrote:
It was hard at first then I got the hang of it. then it turned out toy be easy.
Taylor, age 10 of York, PA wrote:
It fell down.
Ally & Alexandra, age 12 of Yarmouth wrote:
It was sturdy and it was big anough for 2 people to play in it. It collapsed a few times but once we figured out why it was collapsing it stayed up.
Rebecca, age 11 of Kenosha, WI wrote:
It stoud up for 3 hours stright.
Amanda, age 8 of Ballground, GA wrote:
We did a very god job it only 5 min to do it it was really cool.
Lauren, age 10 of New Waterford, NS wrote:
It worked out good intesd of shower curtains we used broom sticks and a hevey blanket and it fell down so we put a lighter one on and it worked we also used a lot of duck tape to make it stand then we put blankets in it it was cosey but the only thing was you couldn't stand up!
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