Dinosaur Diorama

Use your Crayola Cutter to transform paper into a lush, leafy, green, 3-D environment for your favorite dinosaurs. What an impressive school project!

1. Find a box that is just the right size for your Dinosaur Diorama. Use your Crayola Cutter according to the package directions. Place green, brown, and then black paper on the cutting mat. Cut out lots of fringe, irregular leaf and tree shapes, and interior holes in the papers. Herbivores eat a lot of plants! Intricate cuts are easy with a Cutter, so make plenty of foliage.

2. Use Crayola Glue Sticks to attach your leafy cutouts inside the box in layers. Make sure some pieces hang loose from the top and sides for a true 3-D effect. Glue some shapes standing up from bottom.

3. With Crayola Washable Markers and Twistables® Crayons, create your dinosaurs on more paper. Use the Cutter to cut small holes in their bodies. Cut sections of patterned paper that came with your Cutter to place under the cutouts. Glue onto body.

4. Cut out the dinosaurs. Glue them in place. For school projects, add labels, write reports, and make your assignment memorable.

Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project. Observe children closely and intervene as necessary to prevent potential safety problems and ensure appropriate use of arts and crafts materials. Some craft items, particularly beads and buttons, are potential choking hazards for young children. Avoid use of such small parts with children younger than 3 years. Craft items such as scissors, push pins and chenille sticks may have sharp points or edges. Avoid use of materials with sharp points by children younger than 4 years. Read all manufacturers' safety warnings before using arts and craft supplies.

Monster Socks

Jolly Jiggly Jellyfish

Dazzling Peacock

Crafts

crayola supplies

• Markers
• Twistables®
• Glue Sticks
• Crayola Cutter
• Construction Paper

household supplies

• recycled cardboard box

"After the scouts discovered how easy it is to make interior cuts, they cut more peepholes in paper to cover their diorama openings. They shared their dinosaur peek-inside shows with younger scouts. "
Vlado B., scoutmaster.

"This was a school project, so my daughter used the letter stencils to cut out dinosaur names and descriptions to cover the outside of her diorama. "
Leigh F., parent of 7- and 9-year-olds.

Dinosaurs used the plants and vegetation around them as hiding places to stay safe from their meat-eating predators. The larger herbivores, or plant-eating dinosaurs, ate tons of vegetation every week. There are also theories that because dinosaur parents were too large to incubate their eggs, they warmed their eggs instead with plants placed on the nest. As the plants fermented, they provided heat. Crocodiles today incubate their eggs the same way.