Diorama

My husband recently got a new pair of shoes that came in a really nice box (hello, Nordstrom!), and he have that box to Grasshopper for the express purpose of making a diorama. After he read the Boxcar Children books, Grasshopper decided that he wanted to make his diorama of a scene from the first book. He chose the scene where the kids are having a picnic supper and they find the dog that adopt and name Watch (because he will make a good watchdog). 

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We started by rereading the section. Then Grasshopper tried his hand at drawing the dog, but he was extremely unhappy with the way it turned out (“it looks like a slug with legs!”), so I helped him out. I’m not much of an artist myself, but I was able to look at the picture in the book and put lines in equivalent places on a sheet of paper. We also made a “blanket,” and Grasshopper painted the inside of the box to blue for sky and green for grass. He also made pictures of food for the blanket, and we worked together on the blueberry bush. I sent him outside with a big brother for a few minutes, and they gathered some real grass and pine cones for the diorama as well. When they came back in, we put everything together. 

F3BE4364-59A9-4438-BBFF-06CEED805EECFirst, we glued the grass to the bottom, then added the blanket. For the pieces that would stand up, we made sure to leave tabs on the bottoms when we cut them out. When it was time to attach them to the diorama, we folded the tab over and taped the tab to the bottom of the box. It still didn’t work super well (we had to make sure the bigger pieces were leaned against one of the walls), but it gave us a place to start. 

All in all, this was a really fun project! It was great to be able to take a book he had read and reinforce the story with an art project. 

Blessings,

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