How to Make a Dinosaur Diorama

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Laura from youngwritersworkshops.com and I'm going to talk about making a dinosaur diorama. A dinosaur diorama is a pretty common assignment you might receive at school and I just want to give you a few ideas about how to put it together. You're going to need a shoe box and some pictures of magazines, from magazines, or some pictures that you've taken and printed out from some foliage, like leaves. You're going to need some dirt and glue and probably some leaves or little bits of grass and rocks to be the boulders in your landscape here. So start by placing a whole bunch of glue in the bottom, I'm just going to add a little bit more here to the front of the diorama, and then you just apply the dirt right on to the glue. Stick a little dirt on there, make the ground that your dinosaur is going to walk on. The leaves, whatever kind of little bits of green that you've gathered up can go in there. Just glue stick them on with glue in the same, same way you did the dirt. The rocks might need a little extra just to hold them down, and just stick them right in there, the landscape. Take your photos like this and just also with glue just attach them to the back and on the sides and then last but not least you need the dinosaur for your dinosaur diorama. Again, use glue to hold them in, you don't want to lose them. Attach them here, and you're going to have, when you're finished, you're going to have your own prehistoric scene complete with a dinosaur. That's how you make a dinosaur diorama."