Create a Home for Your Pet Rock

Now that you have chosen your pet rock, it is time to take it home with you. This is also the time to find a special area for your pet. Your pet deserves a special abode just for itself. You also have to determine the gender and age of your rock and choose its name. Now, give your pet rock a name.

Steps

Making a house

  1. Find a suitable sized box. A box from a pair of toddler's shoes may be the best. If you have a medium-sized rock (2-4cm diameter), then find a large 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.
  2. Transform the box into a little house. Cut out windows and doors. Color parts of it into separate rooms, making the divisions and floor spaces using marker colors.
    • Find some felt, Sticky Notes or other suitable material for rugs or carpet. Stick these things down firmly.

Turning the house into a home

  1. Make a Make Your Pet Rock a Comfortable Bed. if you have a sponge cut a bit and sticky tape it to the bottom of the box.
  2. Add some bent paper clips to the bottom of a matchbox. Lay down a cloth then cut off a square piece from an old sock for the blanket.
  3. 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.
  4. Add a doll's chair for the pet rock to relax in.
  5. 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.
  6. Add beaded curtains made from small glass or plastic beads.
  7. Make pillows with Styrofoam, bubble wrap or felt.
  8. Decide whether your rock is royalty. If your rock is royalty (king/prince/queen/princess), decorate the house as a castle. A good way to make it a banquet table is:
    • Fold a piece of A4 Card in half so that it's A5 size. Where the crease is, cut off the two corners and a small triangle in the centre.
    • Open it up. On either side, fold a flap in to the edge of it, to cut off corners. Flip the paper over.
    • 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.

Introducing the pet rock to its new home

  1. Bring your new rock to its new home. Give it a name and show it around every single room in the house.
  2. Take care of your pet rock. If you want to know how to care for a pet rock, check out the Pet Rocks. A small cavalry of wikiHowians have devoted their lives to developing this category.
  3. Play with your pet rock every day. Take it for walks around the house. In time, perhaps make it a cardboard garden as well, to site around the house.
  4. Enjoy spending time playing with your pet rock. You and your rock should be very happy together for years to come.

Tips

  • 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 treadmill.
  • A good idea is some comic books/books to read; print pictures of comic books/book covers off the net or make some cool comic book covers on the hero factory site (search for it on Google)
  • If you like, you can make furniture and other stuff for your rock out of clay and then paint it.
  • "Pet Rocking" is an inexpensive hobby. Try having a bathroom and bedroom all in one room, and a kitchen, dining room and lounge in the other.
  • If you have a boy and a girl rock and they are not in love, it is a good idea to separate their rooms.
  • If your pet rock has a name and a unique personality, you can customize its home based on its likes and monogram its home with its name or initials.

Warnings

  • 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.
  • Remember not to leave your pet rock alone for extended periods of time; if they don't get enough attention, they might end up giving you the silent treatment.
  • This can get really addicting!
  • Make sure that your pet rock fits in its new home.
  • Don't 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
  • Cozy cover
  • Paint and/or clay (optional)
  • Glue
  • Pet rock

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