Now that you have chosen your pet rock, it is time to take it home with you, and find a special area for the pet. After all, the pet needs a special abode just for itself. You also have to determine the gender and age of your rock, have it neutered or spayed, and give it a name.
Step 1
Find a suitably sized box. A box from a pair of toddler's shoes may be best. If you have a medium-sized rock (2-4cm diameter), then find a large variety of matchbox. These usually contain chef's matches. If you have a smaller rock, then you could just get away with a smaller matchbox, but don't leave your pet languishing there all day. Just keep it for sleeping.
Step 2
Make it a home. Find some felt or other suitable material for the carpet. Stick it down firmly.
Step 3
Make a bed for your rock out of a small pot filled with cotton wool or faux fur.
Step 4
Add some bent paper clips to the bottom of a match box. Lay down a cloth then cut off a square piece from an old sock for the blanket.
Step 5
Make bean bags out of tiny felt cushions stuffed with cotton wool. Make a basic table by bending down two opposite sides of a rectangle cut deftly from poster-board or other cardboard. Create a jacuzzi out of a small plastic pot, such as a yogurt pot, and fill it with water.
Step 6
Make a big screen TV out of thick cardboard. Unless you know how to wire this thing to enable streaming video, you can just cut out a photo of a particularly good looking fossil from the Smithsonian Institution or the British Museum. Paste it on the screen so as to look like an image on a TV screen. You could make different pictures to slide into the TV through a slit in the top.
Step 7
Add beaded curtains made from small glass or plastic beads.
Step 8
You can also make pillows with Styrofoam or bubble wrap or felt.
Step 9
If your rock is royalty then a good way to make it a banquet table is: Fold a piece of A4 Card in half so its A5 size. Where the crease is cut off the 2 corners and a small triangle in the centre. Open it up. On either side fold a flap in to the edge of the to cut off corners. Flip the paper over.
Step 10
Fold the flaps in to the centre (it doesn't matter if they overlap.) Put the bit with the diamond in it at the front (the cut off "triangle".) Spread it out so the flaps are like benches and the whole thing stands up on its own.
Tips
- " Pet Rock" is an inexpensive hobby. Try having a bathroom and bedroom all in one room, and a kitchen, dining room and lounge in the other.
- Add many other things, toys, photos and exercise equipment for your rock and for the exercise equipment try using tinfoil to make weights and a cardboard tredmill.
- If you like, you can make furniture and other stuff for your rock out of clay and then paint it.
Warnings
- This can get really addictive!!
- Don't feel discouraged if your pet rock's house doesn't turn out the way you planned. Your pet rock will appreciate your hard work no matter what it looks like.
- Dont feel angry at your rock if your rock doesn't like it's house. Your Pet rock still loves you and will learn to adapt.
Things You'll Need
- A large matchbox, shoe box, or doll's house
- Felt
- Cardboard
- Small containers
- Cotton wool
- Paint and/or clay (optional)
- Glue
- Creativity
- Pet Rock
