How To Make A Portable Tap Dance Floor

Perhaps you have a passion for tap dancing but like most people don t live in a dance hall or have access to the proper floor.

How to make a portable tap dance floor.

How to build your own lightweight tap dance 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. The actual assembly only took a few hours. 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.

Individual tap dance floor and exercise platform made from reused flooring. Building a dance floor for a carpeted room. Love that you took the initiative to make your own dance floor. Purchase sheets of 3 4 inch thick medium density fiberboard commonly called mdf from a home.

The most basic home practice floor is simply a piece of plywood. 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. I only paid 15 for my floor. It s musical artistic great exercise and awesome.

Method 1 of 2. Most of the time was spent waiting for the glue to dry. For a more permanent cushioned floor you ll need to use multiple layers of flooring included some type of impact absorbing subflooring. I spent a little under 100 for an 8 x4 floor.

Since the laminate flooring fits together perfectly this is also a good floor for other types of dance. Make precise measurements of the space you have determined. I found a studio in my town that offers classes for adults and am so happy to be tapping again. Determine the size of your dance floor.

This is my first ever and very own tutorial on how to make your own tap dance floor. Complete written instructions are below in the comment section there are a few of these kind of vide. My son is a budding gregory hines or savion glover and we want to foster his artistic pursuits. I came up with.

Single tap dancers who are simply looking for a temporary place to practice steps at home may only need three square feet while people who are planning a dance party will need an area as large as their space will accommodate. Tap was always my favorite. Instructions for making your own home size tap dancing floor. For use in a carpeted room build a dance floor that can fold up for easy movement and storage.

Now another decade a husband and two kids later i am dancing again.