Imagine a Magnificent Building
Design a building with it's very own fountain! Make a realistic replica of a stately government building with steps and statues or your own dream structure with terraces and towering columns.
1. Visit government buildings in your area. How is the architecture different from other buildings? Often there are statues, fountains, gates, frescos, or plaques honoring famous people. This is how we made our building—yours may look entirely different!
2. Prepare the grounds. Use Crayola® School Glue to attach green construction paper to cardboard. Air-dry the base.
3. Design a building. Use Crayola Scissors to cut construction paper to cover boxes. Draw and color doors and trim with Crayola Twistables. To make porches, steps, sidewalks, and terraces, place construction paper on a textured surface. Rub Twistables over the paper to create a brick or stone-like design. Accordion-fold paper to form steps. Glue everything together. Air-dry the structure.
4. Add columns and frescoes. To make columns, fold rectangles of paper and glue the open edges. Or use Crayola Washable Markers to color recycled cardboard rolls. Glue columns on each side of the doors. Cut a paper triangle to span the columns. Design a colorful fresco on the triangle. Glue on and air-dry.
5. Plant landscaping. Create rows of bright flower beds, thick bushes, and tall trees on paper with Twistables. Cut around the plants, leaving extra space on the bottom for tabs. Fold tabs and glue plants around the building.
6. Erect a fountain. Shape a water fountain with Crayola Model Magic. To make gray, knead in color from a washable marker. Air-dry the fountain overnight. Glue it in front of your building. To make imitation water, cut thin strips of clear plastic wrap. Drape and glue strips around the fountain’s edges. Air-dry your construction.
7. Imhotep, the earliest known architect, wrote his name on every building he designed for kings. Why not write your name in big, bold letters on a wall, just as Imhotep did?
Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project.
Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—
- Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
- Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
- Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
- The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
- Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
- Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
- Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.
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