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Thinking sheet · Imagine and invent
Dream Bedroom Floor Plan
Draw a floor plan of your dream bedroom from above. A slide? A reading nook? A secret door?
- Grades
- 2–5
- Time
- about 30 minutes
- Topic
- Imagine and invent
- Kids practice
- floor plans, measurement, map keys
What kids do
“Design your dream room, seen from above like a map!”
- My bedroom from above (one square = one foot)
- Key (what the symbols mean)
- The best feature is…
How to run it
- Show what a bed looks like from above: a rectangle with a pillow.
- Make a key with symbols for each thing.
- Older kids can measure their real room first.
Talk about it
- What would you do first in your dream room?
- What could you really add at home?
- How is a floor plan like a map?
Take it further
Measure your real room and draw it to scale.
Pairs well with
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