Rainforest Diorama Ideas
Whether you have an environmentalist at home who loves to create visual aides in appreciation for threatened territories or you're a teacher in charge of inspiring 30 youths to want to learn more about Earth's beauty, a rainforest diorama suits both needs. Various animals, plant life, flowers and ecosystems are available for exploration and consideration.
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How To Make A Rainforest Diorama
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The Diorama Man (see References) shows the construction of the basic structure of a rainforest. It consists of five different layers: the overlayer, canopy, underlayer, shrub and ground layer. White card stock or poster board, a cardboard box, crayons, markers or colored pencils, scissors and glue or tape are necessary materials. Cut a single side of the cardboard box off and build five separate layers of trees in various sizes and shapes. The ground layer receives little sunlight but does have scarce patches of grass and house anteaters. Color the trees green and brown. Line the backside of the box with four 2-inch wide pieces of card stock and stagger one layer of trees or grass to each shelf. Add a single wave of green and yellow construction paper on top to extend the canopy and resemble sunny skies. On the left side of the box, use a marker to label each layer of the forest.
Complex Rainforest Diorama
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A complex rainforest diorama offers students an opportunity to use their imagination and create a complicated replica of a brightly colored, authentic, vivid rainforest. Prepare to spend at least a full day building this diorama due to its extensive details. You will use a large cardboard box, aluminum foil, paints and brushes, paper mache paste, green raffia or straw wrapping ribbon, plastic animals, various colors of molding clay, string, tape, glue, tissue paper and blue cellophane wrap. Provide children with stencils of trees or a forest or cut these images out of magazines. Should they choose to paint, they will need blue, green and brown paint. While waiting for the paint to dry, roll the aluminum foil into tree trunks with branches and use brown craft paper or recycle the inside of a paper trash bag to bunch up around the bases. Tape the trees into place. Paint paper mache paste on the trees and base and color them brown. The next step is to make the animals with the red, blue, yellow and green modeling clay. Add trees and animals into the background box, using string to hang birds or eagles from the sky and blue cellophane to wrap around the basin of trees and form a river. Scrunch up green tissue paper for bushy leaves and wrap the green straw throughout branches to resemble vines. Don't forget to label the different layers of the rainforest, animals, flowers and plant life.
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Easy Rainforest Diorama
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To make an easy rainforest diorama you will need a large shoe box, access to a printer, copy paper, markers, colored pencils or crayons, glue and modeling clay. Thin cardboard--such as the inside of a cereal box or a manila folder--scissors, toothpicks and small shells or whole almonds and cream paint are also necessary. To begin, set the box upright with the lid the base and the box the background setting. Download rain forest images from the Internet or cut pictures out of magazines and affix to the inside of the box with glue. Among the photos, include ferns, flowers, gorillas, toucans, parrots, jaguars, frogs and snakes. Small dabs of white modeling clay stuck onto the ends of toothpicks replicate mushrooms. Glue background trees around the outside of the box for added emphasis and print a single label including the layers of the rainforest and its inhabitants on top.
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- Photo Credit pathway to rainforest image by mdb from Fotolia.com
