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Notes for teachers or adults

We suggest this project is done by children between the age of 6 and 7 but we think that most will need some adult help. Some of it, obviously, must be done at home but the drawing etc could be done either from home or in school.

Pens, paper. You will also need a ruler, a longer measure and some scrap paper. You may need a scanner or camera so you can upload it to your school's website.

I want you to draw me a plan of your home. Unless you have a very small home, or a very large piece of paper, you will have to draw it to a scale. So that all the plans you send in are equal in size I am going to have a fixed scale. Our scale is going to be 1 metre = 3 centimetres.

This means that if you have a measure of 1 metre, when you draw your plan you draw it as 3 centimetres. Now I don't think any of you are going to live in a house that is 1 metre long and 1 metre wide so you will have to do a little bit of maths. I'm sure an adult or older sister or brother could help you.

Once you have drawn a plan of the rooms, I would like you to put some furniture in. However I don't want all your furniture, I just want the following:

• in the lounge and/or dining room – chair, sofas, tables, desks, units
• in the kitchen – any of cooker, washing machine, dryer, fridge, freezer, dishwasher
• in the bedrooms – beds and cupboards
• in the bathroom – bath, basin and toilet (unless it is in a different room)

On your plan, put in any or all of the above (drawn to scale of course) and mark them with a single letter or two. You will then explain the code on your plan. For example BD-bed, B-bath, BS=basin. You can put the room names in full on the plan.

I know this is a bit complicated so I made Richard do a plan of his home, well our home sometimes, so you could see what it looks like before you draw yours. You can see it here. You will spot that he had to join 2 pieces of A4 paper together to fit it all in. If you have a two storey house you may need even more pieces of paper.

These instruction in PDF format and only intended for teachers can be found here

If you are doing this project on your own at home, you can email a copy of the finished project to us and it may find its way on to our site. Send it to homeprojectsi@owlbut.co.uk That would be owlingly brilliant. Off you go.

We are asking schools to set up a special part of their school website called Owlbut's World of Learning and all work done by pupils should be uploaded there. Each project, if you decide to do more than one, should have a separate section. Send the link to olderowlettesprojects@owlbut.co.uk.

We will start uploading projects sent to us and links from schools in September 2025. The projects and links will be accessed from this page.