For the base I used 28 jumbo lolly sticks that started out as 15cm in length and i cut them down to 13.3cm. I glued them side by side to make a circle shape and layered several layers of plaster strips. That took about a day, day and a half to dry completely.
I then painted it with 3 shades of acrylic brown, 1st colour is brown and the lighter colour is a mix of yellow ochre and light brown. I stuck a double layer of rope that has wire in the middle, 2/3 at the top of the hut.
The top of the hut is a large 30 cm cone shape cartridge paper, painted with brown acrylic paint and covered with 3 different coloured raffia paper strips. I stuck the raffia paper strips a 1cm over the end of the cone.
I covered the tip of the cone with dark coloured twine to make it a little bit neat, and also because it looked like a straw hat without it.
The hut is approximately 40cm in length and 30cm in width.