Backyard teepee tent

learn how to make a teepee tent like the indians of just thing in a backyard or forest area this is also my first instructable and i hope u like it

Step 1 Step 1 Materials

for this "project" you will need

1. 8-10 6ft long sticks
2. twine, rope or vines
3. a large sheet of cloth or a bedsheet
4. a knife or shrapnel
5. large rock or hammer

Comments

[love2make]

um well i dont think its really that simple

[Kiteman]

'taint "walla", it's "voilà" (it's French for "see this")

[Pointy Cactus24]

are you just one of those poeple that have to say something about someones pronounciation, especially with another labguage, same here. and i just had to agree witchu.

[Kiteman]

and that odd "A" started as a lower case a with an acute accent (little line sloping up to the right). I don't know why the system swapped it.

[dchall8]

It swapped it because, as great as this website is, it can't handle special characters. Curly quotes are not supported either.

[fatinha]

Walla "" i like that ! i sounds good. I like your Tee pee too. !

[balisticjoe]

Neat instructable but highly unauthentic.

[CybergothiChe]

indeed, very unauthentic, but nice

[wishes]

This would be better if it actually showed us how to do it. How are the sticks put together? is there a particular pattern or shape? How were they tied? just rope wrapped around a few times or woven or something? Is there supposed to be a hole in the top where the sticks stick out? or does that somehow magical close up?

[komies]

Things that would make this instructable better: -pictures you took -capital letters -punctuation

[dchall8]

The secret to making a tipi is to cut the skin in a half-circle shape. I made a tipi out of heavy duty plastic sheet from the hardware store. When you go in, ask for "visqueen." I'm not sure why it's called that but it is. Unroll or unfold it and figure out the largest half-circle you can make - mine was 10 feet. Mark the half-circle and cut it out. Then find some bamboo, straight limbs, PVC, or something to make stakes AT LEAST 2 FEET LONGER than the radius of your half-circle. Tie three poles together at the 2-foot mark to make a tripod. Then lean the rest of your poles up against the tripod to make a circle the same diameter as the radius of your half-circle. The middle of the straight side of your half-circle will be the top of the tipi and the cut part will be toward the ground. Grab a bunch of the plastic right at the middle of the straight side and tie a rope to it. Throw the rope across the top of the tripod and hoist the skin up to the top. Then find the straight edges of the skin and wrap around. I used duct tape where the edges overlapped and left the bottom open as an entry. If the straight sides don't come together, then your circle of poles is spread too far apart. Bring them in until you can tape the skin together. Then scoot the poles back out until the skin is relatively tight against all the poles. Practice this with paper first. Here is another hint: do not let the skin touch the ground. You will be much more comfortable inside if you have full air circulation. We used my little 10-foot tipi on a camping trip. My family was in our nylon Coleman tent and my friend was in the plastic tipi. When it rained, my friend in the tipi was the only one really dry. A 10-foot tipi is okay to sleep one person plus equipment but not much else. It makes a nice sized play tent. Before the Europeans introduced the horse to North America, the natives used dogs to help them pack their belongings from place to place. The dog's strength limited the size of their tipis to around 10 feet in height/diameter. When the horse came the natives took advantage of the extra pack strength and increased the size of their tipis to 20 - 25 feet. That is just large enough for a small family or scouting group to camp.

[HamO]

Pix of a teepee you actually made would really help this Instructable.