Students at Brunson Elementary Make Igloo Out of Milk Jugs

A whole class fits inside

An igloo built for reading

Nancy Smoot teaches kindergarten at Brunson Elementary School. Here’s what she had to say about students making an igloo out of milk jugs:

“Since Brunson is a magnet school for the engineering-design process, I wanted to tackle a design challenge with my kindergarten class and our fourth grade HAG (highly academically gifted) buddy class (Mrs. Demarie Anderson's class).

“I found the igloo online searching websites for project ideas. The web site Squidoo suggested collecting more than 400 milk jugs. Our goal was 450. We collected most of those from students in our school. Jugs were brought to my classroom. We started in November and completed the project in late January.

“Kindergarten kids grouped and tied jugs in bundles of 10. The fourth graders made a compass to create the circle on the large box. In addition, they glued groups of four jugs together for us. We used hot glue guns to bond the jugs together! We were given a ‘polar bear’ rug for the inside.

“My kindergarten kids enjoy reading in the igloo in my classroom.”

The igloo two rows into the process