Fall Diorama

Celebrate fall with this creative and eco-friendly craft for kids. Kids will have fun creating a Fall Diorama using a cereal box.

Author: Vicky

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.

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.