Help with a 1st grader's diorama project?

Question

I tried posting this in homework but maybe I'll have more luck here? My 7 year old has to make a shoebox diorama of a shark's habitat.....tricky, I know, being that you cannot use water with a shoebox! Any suggestions?

Answer 1

cellophane. Get blue to line the box to show water and hang green strips to show sea weed. Cut out and colour fish and glue on

Answer 2

let your child create the project.  get off of the computer and support the kid.

Answer 3

Well you could have paint the background of it dark blue. Kinda cheesy but it works and that's all I can think of.

Answer 4

u need to be creative u know. anyway heres an idea. have a blue backround in a shoebox. i mean having blue scrap paper and or blue plastic. then having fishes in the backround as well. then drawing a shark on a differnt peace of paper then cutting it out and then glueing it onto the shoebox.

heres a link to help u out somewhat,

http://www.stormthecastle.com/mainpages/...

Answer 5

My son just made one of these, we used one of those vans shoe boxes (w/the lid that does not detach) and glued dark blue construction paper on the bottom half with some on the top (cut into waves) with light blue on the top. He also cut out white pieces for clouds and added birds. On the bottom we used pipe cleaners for coral, styrofoam peanuts painted grey for rocks and printed out images of different sharks that he colored in to hang from the top. On the background he drew a small school of fish and posted different facts about the sharks (and other sea animals). To keep the box lid up we snipped a hole in the top, put a bit of string through it with a loop at the end that he attached to a tack at the bottom of the box, this way while taking it to school it remained closed but could be held open later.

If you feel really creative you can take some grey construction paper and add sea caverns.

I hope he has fun doing this.

Edit: Also, instead of using paper print outs you could also buy those little toys and hang them as well.

Good luck.

Answer 6

Hmm... Does the diorama HAVE to be in a shoebox? If not, you might be able to use a goldfish bowl and get away with that... If it does, maybe you could just have your child color the sides of the box blue, then put sand in the bottom of it, and then pick some grasses (or use construction paper) to make plants and such. Oh, and those little goldfish snack crackers glued to the sides of the box would work well for other fishes (as a source of shark food). Good luck, hope your child does well! :)

Answer 7

paint the bottom and sides blue -- darker blue at the bottom

glue rocks around

good luck -- they only get harder!!