Haunted House Math

Today we decided to try to make a huge haunted house.  My plan was to incorporate math into the making of the haunted house.  Here is our finished product in the day light.

Here it is in the dark.

We got the idea from here.

First, the kids painted the box.

Then we talked about proportion and determined what we wanted the doors and windows to measure and how to place them evenly across the front.  Ethan measured it them all out and I cut them out.

We chose to make the windows crooked to make it more spooky.

Then we taped orange tissue paper behind the windows and glued on black cut out bats, etc.

The plan next was to use our past electrical experience to place a simple wire, bulb and battery circuit in the haunted house but it turned out to be too dim so we replaced it with a regular light up pumpkin.  The kids love the final effects! 

Who knows, we may end up deciding that we need to carpet the haunted house and then will be able to work on area.  Or maybe we'll put a rickety picket fence around it and will need to know the perimeter.  We'll see where this goes next.

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