My Inquiry V hut

Our V hut

For Inquiry we have been learning about New Zealand history. So we have created a Model of a V hut, which early Europeans lived in. They lived in V huts because they were easy to build. 

We made the V hut out of cardboard because it was similar to the wood, the V huts were made of back in the 1850s. We covered the roof with brown card-like paper and tied it up to look like flax. Which the people would cover their roof with to keep the inside warm. We added a fire which they would use to cook or heat their ironer. We made a clothes line made out of cardboard to symbolise the wooden clothes line they used to dry their clothes in the 1850s. We created a two man crosscut saw which they used to cut the wood for the fire back in the 1850s. We made a garden because how else are they supposed to get vegetables and fruit? We made a laundry bucket because that's how they washed their clothes in the 1850s.