Visit My Museum
Create a tiny collection of your favorite items. Call your friends over to peek into your miniature museum--and make their own!
1. Museums contain large collections of similar and important things. There are art museums, natural history museums, historical museums, and many other kinds.
2. What will your miniature museum contain? Decide on a theme. Find real, tiny objects if you can. Collect pictures from recycled magazines. Cut them out and trim with Crayola® Scissors.
3. Lay an empty recycled tissue box so the opening to your museum looks like an arch. Open the top and bottom edges of the back. In the middle, cut a vertical slit from the top to the bottom, making two doors that open. Now you can see inside your museum.
4. Cut and glue construction paper into the front arch of your box. Cut the paper vertically to make two doors.
5. Cut construction paper to fit the inside floor and walls of your museum. Glue in place with Crayola School Glue.
6. Arrange your museum collection on the walls. Glue in place. Create decorative frames for your pictures by drawing around them with a Crayola Marker.
7. Decorate the outside of your museum, too. If you want to paint it, cover your art area with newspaper. Paint the building with Crayola Washable Kid's Paint and Paint Brushes. Dry.
8. For a classical-style museum, flatten Crayola Model Magic to create pedestals for columns. Cut short sections of a recycled paper towel roll. Press into pedestals to make columns.
9. Choose either Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian capitals. Create them with Model Magic. Glue in place at the tops of your columns. Glue to the front of your museum.
10. Many classical buildings have a structure on the roof called a pediment—a triangle above the front entrances. Create a pediment for your museum by forming a Model Magic triangle. Glue in place.
11. Decorate your columns, pedestals, capitals, and pediment with Crayola Markers or Gel Markers and Crayola Glitter Glue. Dry.
Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project.
Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough With Small Parts—
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—
- 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.
- If the arts & crafts project involves making small objects, follow the small parts/choking hazards standards: WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Small parts. Not for children under 3 years."
- 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.
Glitter Glue— WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Small parts. Not for children under 3 years. Not for use on skin.
Crayola Washable Paints—Not for use as body/face paint.
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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