2nd grade project: Make an adobe house?

[DisneyKT]

I don't know why this thread took the turn that it did. Was I the only one that read the original post and assumed the OP was looking for materials to supply for her child on short notice to do this project?

DD9 just finished an awesome project of a Lenni-Lenape village. She did almost all of the work herself and came up with all of the ideas. I handled the hot glue gun to avoid severe burns (which one of her classmates suffered from). I gave her a little direction in the material for the longhouse as her original plan was next to impossible. I see nothing wrong with parents giving a little guidance and like the above post mentions, someone needs to buy the materials. Why does everyone assume the worst?

ITA with you. People are very negative.

 

[declansdad]

I don't know why this thread took the turn that it did. Was I the only one that read the original post and assumed the OP was looking for materials to supply for her child on short notice to do this project?

DD9 just finished an awesome project of a Lenni-Lenape village. She did almost all of the work herself and came up with all of the ideas. I handled the hot glue gun to avoid severe burns (which one of her classmates suffered from). I gave her a little direction in the material for the longhouse as her original plan was next to impossible. I see nothing wrong with parents giving a little guidance and like the above post mentions, someone needs to buy the materials. Why does everyone assume the worst?

Maybe because of the bolded parts of the quote below. Maybe the op didn't mean it that way but it comes across that way when read.

So my 2nd grader has a project due, and she had her choice of 3 Indian tribes to pick from to do the project on. I let her pick her favorite, and I didn't realize till AFTER we wrote her report that she now has to make an adobe house for the recreation part of the project. I googled it, but I don't have that clay and straw around to make a model of a Pueblo house. So I am thinking..I don't know, is there a homemade playdoh I can use that would harden and I can paint it brown to make it look like an adobe house?

In a pinch, I could really cheat and paint cardboard to recreate a Pueblo house, but I would rather not do that! I want her to get a semi-good grade! Any tips, has anyone ever done this project before?