Make Your Own Practice Dance Floor

This post details all steps and materials needed to make an 8 12 dance floor on even ground.

Make your own practice dance floor. May 17 2014 whether you have an aspiring ballerina living in your home or you need to polish up your moves for an impending special event carpet doesn t lend itself to dancing. I used a piece of plywood that used to be about 4x8 but my husband had cut off 2 or 3 feet of it for my 6yo who is obsessed with building. As a do it yourself project making your own tap floor can also be quick and relatively easy. Fortunately anyone with boogie fever can build his own dance floor on a minimal budget and in limited space.

However i will also show you how you can use this basic structure to create a larger dance floor surface further in this article. How to build a dance floor in the form of your own portable diy dance floor. In fact i thought i had a dance floor until the sunday before the wedding carnival. Instructions for making your own home size tap dancing floor.

Fortunately instead of having to go out of your way to find a place to tap dance you can make your own portable tap floor. Enhancements can include attaching material to the top of the board for durability or a better tapping surface and attaching cushioning material to the bottom of the board to make tap dancing easier on your bones and joints. It fell through five days before the event. Including a hinge on your dance floor will keep each half together and will make the floor easy to move and store.

This is a piece of wood that has been in the backyard for ahem quite a while salvaged from a construction project at my husband s workplace. There are many ways to build a dance floor on the grass. The most basic home practice floor is simply a piece of plywood. Three sheets will create an 8 by 12 foot dance floor.

To make a somewhat long 5 month long story short i had a dance floor and then i didn t have a dance floor i had a dance floor and then i didn t. I made my own dance floor. Have the sheets cut smaller if you. A five or six foot piano hinge is ideal but you can also use multiple smaller hinges instead.

With a little ingenuity you can transform basic materials from a hardware store into a portable dance floor in less than an afternoon s time. You will need 3 x sheets of fiberboard that are about 3 4 inches thick some remnants of carpet wood glue and wood sealant. Here is a cheap method to build a makeshift dance floor at home in your lounge study or bedroom for your aspiring ballerina to dance on. This tap floor will be small enough for you to move but will also give you plenty of space in which to dance.