Note: You cannot do this project online. It will only work with the full application.

GOAL: Create a drawing of a house using the tools in Microsoft Word. Your house should look something like the sample.

Instructions

Open Word. Create a new blank document. Choose View>One Page.

Draw the grass and sky.

• Choose Insert> Shapes and select the rectangle.
• Draw a rectangle for the sky.
• Draw a second rectangle for the ground.
• Change the color of the ground to green.
• Select the scribble tool. Draw the mountains. Color them brown.
• Select the scribble tool again to create snow on the mountains. color it white.
• Use the scribble tool again to make clouds.
• Find the sun shape. Add a sun in the corner. Use gradient fill to make it yellow in the center and orange on the edges.
• If you need to, change the order of the shapes by sending them forward or backward.

Group the background

• Click the sky.
• Control-click the grass. Both the grass and sky will be selected.
• Control-click the other parts of the image.
• Select group.

Draw the house.

• Draw a rectangle for the body of the house. Color it red.
• Draw a triangle for the roof. Color it gray.
• Add a door and windows.
• Add a doorknob.
• Add a chimney. Use pattern fill to give it a brick pattern.
• Group the house.

Draw a tree.

• Use the scribble tree to draw the tree and leaves.
• Color them correctly.
• Group the tree.
• Make a copy of the tree.

Add more details.

• A sidewalk, a street, a picket fence, a doghouse… whatever you want!

Sample

Word document: Word House Sample