Cathedral history project ideas?

Question

I have to make a medieval cathedral for school. Does anyone have ideas of what to make it out of and how? Please help!

Answer 1

You could use cardboard, corregated board (aka cardboard boxes), or any other material that is stiff enough to stand on its own. Balsa wood is another alternative, although it won't have the feeling of the brick that we think of in most cathedrals.

You can paint the cardboard to a gray color so it will look like limestone. Depending on how elaborate you want to get, you can add stained glass windows with colored celophane (or paint), big wooden doors with the balsa, and a spire with a cross on top.

A real ambitious method would be to actually build the walls brick by brick. You'd have to mae each brick, which would be time-consuming, but it would look great. In that case, styrofoam might work well. Make sure you put a lot of paper down with that material though. Cutting styrofoam creates thousands of tiny white crumbs that stick to everything.

Modeling clay is another choice. If you get the gray kind the bricks would already be colored correctly, and if you buy the bricks of clay you could cut them lengthwise and then across to mass produce each individual brick. I'd go with another material for the roof though.

If nothing else, use Legos!

Hope that helps. Good luck on your project!

Answer 2

Not sure how detailed you have to get with it, but I think if I was going to do that, I'd start with a big shoe box like running shoes come in. I'd line it with white paper, then draw in details and color it with markers...kind of like a shadow box... and put construction-paper pews in. If you have to do a tall ceiling, maybe use a second box or the lid of the one, cutting shapes to fit it together.

Hope this gets you started. Good luck with your project.

Answer 3

make it out of marshmallows... mmmmhhhmm.. hahah and like stack em up with either toothpicks
or frosting hahah iono... im just into food...hahahah JK!!!!