My son has a project?

Question

I need some info or resources on making a small model city the child is eight years old....

Answer 1

I have found the secret to amazing school project models of all sorts - sheets of blue wall insulation foam! 1 sheet is about 4 ft x 8 ft and I have been using one sheet for it for about 3 years now! You can cut it into any shape, paint it, make it look like rocks, water, concrete, etc. It is very light weight but very sturdy. It glues together quite well.
Use one piece approx. 2x2 ft for the base. Use an exacto knife to cut out rectangles and square which you can paint to look like buildings. Just paint them grey or brown and make the windows with magic marker.
Paint on roads and parks and ponds, etc. You can carve the foam into any shape you want - so you could make a planetarium or any unusual building. Make little trees by painting chucks of sponge green and gluing them to toothpicks, then you can stick them right in to the foam ground.
I am telling you - my 3 kids have used this stuff to make pioneer villages, rock collection displays, medieval castles, you name it.

Answer 2

Model it on your city/town. Pick 1 or 2 of each: kid place, restaurant, mall, school, highway, your house, park, and the like.

Use juice/milk cartons for buildings, flexible straw for stop-lights, crumpled streamers for bushes/grass, chop-sticks/twigs for trees. Pipe-cleaners(chenille sticks) for monkey-bar.

Consider making it a grid. On the board, before starting, paste medium sized construction paper squares. A1, A2, B2, B2 etc.all over the board.
On a piece of paper, write the names of buildings and the squares they are in.

Glue or tape everything securely to the board. It will be need to be taken to school, and be strong enough to withstand some handling by 8 year olds.

Answer 3

Let the child make it out of colorful clay. Use hotwheels for the cars, get some small branches and stick them in clay for trees...really easy and won't cost to much...

Answer 4

Let him use clay, boxes and milk cartons or other craft items. If it's allowed, he could use Lego's or blocks. He might actually like those as they are toys.

Check with his teacher.

Answer 5

make a diarama from a shoe box, use card board cut outs and toothpicks to line the buildings.

Answer 6

look in your recycle you can use pizza boxes,milk containers,egg cartons straws spaghetti to make sidewalks or sticks from outs side for trees or playdoh or flour and water for glue,news paper

Answer 7

look up "make a village" for good crafting ideas.