Creative Shoebox Diorama Ideas For the School Season

Shoebox Dioramas are a part of every school year and in just about every grade they serve as a breathtaking studying tool. They are used to learn the arts and crafts of production things and they are used to also learn about subjects. This narrative shows you some creative ideas from both the arts and crafts aspect and the studying aspect.

The Arts and Crafts of Shoebox Dioramas
 
There are a lot of common ways to make a shoebox diorama and they contain tape, glue, construction paper and all the regular assortment of arts and crafts stuff but there are a few things you can do to make a diorama just a small bit special. Here is a list of ideas:

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• If you are doing an underwater scene you can cover the front of the box with Saran Wrap or thin plastic. This gives the diorama an underwater feel
• Use string to use the full three dimensions inside the box; suspend objects from strings or tie strings from side to side and top to bottom and attach objects to the strings. This works well for flying objects like bird, pterodactyls or even clouds and stars.
• Cut slots in the back and top of the box and use this to insert objects that you can move across the diorama. Make a bird, boat, comet or some other type of attractive object then attach a tab to the back of it. Insert this tab in the slot then you can grab the tab from the back and slide the object across the diorama. This adds a nice small interactive element. This works well with all kinds of things from a rising sun, flying bird, erupting volcano or just about whatever else that would move.
• Think surface the shoebox! There is no need to run out and buy a new pair of shoes if you don't have a shoebox. A more than sufficient box can be made from scraps of cardboard or even a few cereal boxes cut and taped together. And there is no need to make a typical shoebox shape. Be creative in the shape you make. It adds a size of interest to the project. Half round, amphitheatre shapes are generally used for dioramas and look great.
• Achieving Depth - The most common trait of an mean shoebox diorama is that it has a decorated background and objects located on the bottom surface.  You can add an attractive touch by decorating a strip of paper that is about two inches wide with a foliage pattern then attach this to the inside bottom of the diorama about an inch from the back wall - it reaches all the way from the left side to the right side. This adds a lot of depth and makes it look much more interesting.
• Using alternate materials - You don't have to use cardboard or boxes. As an example, if you are doing a polar bear or penguin diorama you could use white packing Styrofoam.  If you are doing a desert scene you can apply glue to the bottom of the diorama and sprinkle real sand on it.

Theme Ideas and studying Tools
 
The biggest point of a shoebox diorama is to show a natural habitat of something. In the process of drawing and cutting out the varied objects a child is studying about the habitat. This is great but you can take it to new levels with a small thought and a small creativity. 

Creative Shoebox Diorama Ideas For the School Season

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• Freezing a occasion in time - A diorama is a occasion in time and you can focus on this. Some good examples are you can have a meteor streaking across the sky of a dinosaur diorama; this explains a theory of extinction. Or you can show a large predator fish about to eat a smaller fish as it is eating something even smaller. This dramatic occasion in time is a good display of the food chain.
• Interactions in a habitat - The focus of a diorama is often to correctly identify and place the right objects for a natural habitat but you can take this to a new level by focusing on the interactions within the habitat. The upper layer of canopy in a rainforest blocks out sunlight from the lower layers and this is an leading aspect of the rainforest. A coral reef provides shelter for many creatures in the sea and a diorama can display this.
• Adding a Fact Sheet - This is a great tool that should be added to every diorama. You should make a fact sheet that can be glued to poster board and stood up near the diorama. The sheet explains the basic facts of what the diorama is about.

Diorama Ideas
 
Here are some ideas you can use as a theme for your diorama:

• The Natural Habitat of just about any creature like fish, polar bears, black bears, penguins, wolves, humans, dinosaurs, camels, lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants, dolphins, and well you get the idea!
• A Desert theme complete with pyramids, mummies and camels is fun
• A Rainforest is a good diorama for teaching about diversity and the interaction of species
• An astronomy diorama complete with sun, planets, comets, and stars in the background
• A medieval Castle scene complete with catapult or dragon
• Underwater scenes are all the time popular
• Arctic themed dioramas are fun because of the creative options for snow and icebergs

Whatever diorama you pick to make you should take a small time to make it separate and unique and there are lots of creative ways to do that. Have fun with your project!

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2. Slow down. It is highly difficult to find a subject, avoid scaring it away, originate your shot, and take the picture when you are swimming a million miles an hour nearby the reef. Especially when shooting macro, focus on one or two coral heads and find those cleaner shrimp, arrow crabs, and nudibranchs. Close-ups of fish eyes or faces make for inviting abstract shots too. Take some pictures of the same branch and pay attentiveness to composition.

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3. Built-in flashes are evil. Do you have a bunch of backscatter in your shots ruining that otherwise exquisite picture? The culprit is that built-in flash. On compact digital cameras the flash is located so close to the lens that it illuminates any particles that are in the water, and then your camera records all that backscatter at 10+ megapixels! How do you avoid this? There are a combine of options. You can whether stay shallow and shoot with ambient light (no flash) and a color correcting filter, or you can get an external strobe and angle it at about 45 degrees above and to the side of your branch so those particles in the water are illuminated from the side, not the front. You may need to do a dinky creative engineering to sync your strobe to your camera. You will also need to cover or deflect the built-in flash so it does not work on your shot. If your housing does not come with an attachment to cover or deflect the built-in flash, duct tape also works great for this purpose.

4. Get close. You think you're close to your subject? You probably need to be closer. Three feet or less is ideal. Why? You need to be close because water absorbs light. You already know this from your quarterly diving - as you descend through the water column, the water absorbs the reds and oranges from the ambient light, and you are left with cooler colors, such as blue. Well, the same principle applies horizontally through the water. The light from your strobe has to trip to the subject, illuminate it, and then trip back to your camera lens. If you are more than a few feet away from your subject, the light is plainly absorbed, and that strobe is just as good as dragging dead weight around. Also keep in mind the result of refraction. Water makes an object appear 33% larger and 25% closer (4:3 ratio), so what appears to be three feet away is admittedly four feet away. Unfortunately strobes don't care about refraction, so you have to get a dinky closer than you think in order to properly illuminate your subject.

5. Think about composition. Fish tails do not make for inviting photos, even if it is the tail of the rarest fish on Earth. Shoot at upward angles, rather than finding down on your subject...and stop chasing those fish! result the Rule of Thirds for visually pleasing photographs.

6. Stay off the bottom! Buoyancy is key in diving, especially when taking underwater photos. By maintaining neutral buoyancy, you will avoid stirring up sand or silt in the water column, thereby keeping the water as clear as potential and helping to minimize backscatter issues. You also won't be labeled as "one of those" photographers who plants themselves on the reef, damaging coral and disturbing reef creatures, while trying to get the exquisite shot. No picture is worth damaging our beautiful and fragile reefs and wrecks.

I hope these tips help. These are just some of the practices I have followed over ten years of underwater photography. I've used both compact digital cameras and digital Slrs, and have gotten very nice results with both. Remember, the only way to get good at underwater photography is to take underwater photographs. And take lots of them! custom taking photos on land. Get to know the features, functions, (and limitations) of your camera, and you will find that underwater photography can be highly rewarding!

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