What You Need 

• Pop Tart Box (or one of similar size and shape)
• Construction Paper
• Scissors
• Tacky Glue
• Pennies, pebbles, or modeling clay
• Tape
• Photographs of all family members (Get permission first!)
• The person should be alone in the photograph and the picture should be s
   

1. The top of the box (with flaps intact) will be the top of the house.
2. Decide what color you would like your house to be and cover the outside with construction paper. Leave three extra inches of construction paper at the top all the way around (where the flaps are).
   
3. Cut slits in the construction paper at the top corners, so that the paper can fold like the flaps can. Glue the construction paper to the flaps.
   
4. This is where you can get creative! Trim the pictures into rectangular windows, or you may decide to cut carefully around the person's picture (sort of like a paper doll) and glue that to a rectangle of paper to make a window.
   
5. Decorate the house, placing the windows and a door. You might want to include your family name - a message and the year.
   
6. Put the pennies, pebbles, or the modeling clay in the bottom of the box to give the project some weight and keep it from falling over.
   
7. Fold corners of the big flaps of the top of the box inward to make an upside down "v". Fold the corners inward, but leave them sitting like tabs, so that you can glue the roof to them. Fold the small flaps down inside the box.
   
8. Decide what color you would like your roof to be and cut the construction paper to cover it. Glue this on and then add any details you would like on your house (window boxes, shutters, flowers, ivy, or anything else you like)!