Celebrate fall with this creative and eco-friendly craft for kids. Kids will have fun creating a Fall Diorama using a cereal box. This miniature, three-dimensional fall scene helps kids express their creativity while working on fine motor skills and learning about sustainable crafting. Kids will also enjoy our Fall Tree Window Painting.
*Please supervise children during this entire activity.
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🍂Why Making a Fall Diorama Is A Great Kids Activity
- Kids will use their creativity and imagination as they create this fall scene. Another fun diorama kids can create is this Rainforest Diorama from Crafting With Kids.
- As they cut, glue, and decorate this cereal box diorama, they will practice their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
- This project is fun to do as a family and it also helps to teach kids to to reuse household objects for a different purpose.
🌳Supply Notes
- Cereal Box - 10 to 12 oz box works well.
- Light Blue Paint - For painting the background sky.
- Green Construction Paper - You be gluing and cutting to make grass.
- Brown Paper Bag - Lunch sized.
- Red, Green, Orange and Brown Tissue Paper Squares - You can use pre-cut tissue paper squares in fall colors or just tear small pieces of tissue paper to make the leaves.
📋How To Make A Fall Scene Diorama
STEP 1: Cut open a cereal box so that the front part of the box opens downward. This is a good job for an adult.
STEP 2: Paint the inside portion of the box with blue paint.
STEP 3: To make the tree cut 2.5 inches off the opening of a paper lunch bag. Then cut strips from the opening of the bag to the part that folds over.
STEP 4: Twist the bottom part of the bag to make a trunk and the strips you cut will be sticking out.
STEP 5: To form the branches of the tree, gather 2 or 3 of the strips and twist them together until all the strips have been twisted.
STEP 6: Once the paint on the box has dried, you can start constructing your fall diorama. Cut and glue some green construction paper to cover the portion of the box that opens up. Cut some hills from green construction paper and glue to the back of the sky scene. Make some grass by cutting a thin strip of green construction paper that will fit the front of the box. Cut strips in the grass, careful not to cut all the way through. Glue to the front of the box and fold up the grass so that it appears to stand up.
STEP 7: Glue the paper tree into the center of the diorama. Roll the yellow pipe cleaner so it becomes a circle. Tie some clear thread to the yellow pipe cleaner and tape it to the top of the box to represent the sun.
STEP 8: Decorate the tree with leaves by using small pieces of fall colored tissue paper. Squeeze the the tissue paper and glue the pieces to the tree branches. You can also glue a few to the ground to represent fallen leaves.
🤷🏻♀️Activity FAQs
The items will not stick as well with a glue stick. I highly recommend using white school glue.
If you don't have a brown lunch bag you can use a white one and change this whole diorama into a winter scene.
✂️Expert Tips
Tip 1: If you have young children, tearing and squeezing tissue paper makes for some great fine motor practice.
Tip 2: If you don't have a brown paper lunch bag, you can try and assemble a tree but cutting a larger brown paper bag or making a tree from brown construction paper.
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Fall Diorama
Materials
- cereal box
- scissors
- light blue paint
- paintbrush
- brown lunch bag
- white glue
- yellow pipe cleaner
- clear thread or string
- scotch tape
- tissue paper in fall colors
Instructions
- Cut open a cereal box so that the front part of the box opens downward. This is a good job for an adult.
- Paint the inside portion of the box with blue paint.
- To make the tree cut 2.5 inches off the opening of a paper lunch bag. Then cut strips from the opening of the bag to the part that folds over.
- Twist the bottom part of the bag to make a trunk and the strips you cut will be sticking out.
- To form the branches of the tree, gather 2 or 3 of the strips and twist them together until all the strips have been twisted.
- Once the paint on the box has dried, you can start constructing your fall diorama. Cut and glue some green construction paper to cover the portion of the box that opens up. Cut some hills from green construction paper and glue to the back of the sky scene. Make some grass by cutting a thin strip of green construction paper that will fit the front of the box. Cut strips in the grass, careful not to cut all the way through. Glue to the front of the box and fold up the grass so that it appears to stand up.
- Glue the paper tree into the center of the diorama. Roll the yellow pipe cleaner so it becomes a circle. Tie some clear thread to the yellow pipe cleaner and tape it to the top of the box to represent the sun.
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Notes
- If you have young children, tearing and squeezing tissue paper makes for some great fine motor practice.
- If you don't have a brown paper lunch bag, you can try and assemble a tree but cutting a larger brown paper bag or making a tree from brown construction paper.
Sapana V says
This is so creative. I have never thought of this kind of activity. Awesome.
Karlyn Cruz says
Ooh! I remember doing these but mine was never as creative as this! Oh I'm definitely going to try it with my little guy! He would love this and you could also make a little hole to peep through as well, right?