How do y ou make a diorama about the desert in a shoebox for a 7 yr. old?
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Make a sunset background.  Add some cacti.  Then let them color.  Even add some plastic wildlife
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do a erupting volcano. \nAll you need is viniger and baking soda.  Red food coloring on viniger if you want it to be red lava.
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http://www.desertusa.com/colorado/coloriv/du_coloriv.html
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For the ice cream cones, take lots of sprinkles and let them pick out the colors to put on theirs..or things like raisins, other fruit, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips so they can taste different things with ice cream....How about snail painting??  No they dont paint the snails, you gather the snails, dip them in paint and put them down on a long length of paper. Sounds yuk but the kids enjoy it especially the boys! :o)
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The site below has animated objects. I hope this helps!
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here is a cut out model\n\nits quite a way down the page, you need a shoe box.
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You can make lacing cards by cutting shapes out of construction paper and laminating.  After you have laminated it punch holes around the edges.  Give the child the cards with shoe laces and let them practice lacing and tying.   If you are not able to verbally communicate with them then simply sit down and play with the cards along side of the child.   Tie the the shoe lace and then clap for yourself...showing the child the tied shoelace.  \n\nYou can also make availble dolls with shoes that tie. \n\nWhen you put the childs shoes, get their attention and be sure that they are watching. Tie his/her shoe (clap) and then untie and lead their hands to try as well.  Just some ideas.  hope they help :)
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Take a cereal box and cut it down a bit.  Cover it with construction paper and let him decorate it.  That would be the nicest.  Even if he's young.  If hes really too little.. maybe decorate a box with photos?
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Create a little clear area, dig a hole in the ground then fill it with sand. Make a little wood border to hold the sand in (only for the back, left, and right side though, you need the front to be open)then stick a long metal pole into the sand and ground to it can hold steady when being hit with the shoes. Have fun!
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Get an old trunk or big suitcase and decorate the outside of it really fancy, with glitter, paint, etc. Then go to garage sales and find old dress up clothes like boas, etc. Add a mirror that you can pdecorate with that tube paint. lol I can't think of the name of the tube paint. Old empty make up containers, etc. can be added.\n\nOr make her a craft basket and put some kids crafts that you could do together in it.
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a trip to the ruler factory. hahahahaha.\nsorry but they just wont be interested and will cry if they cant measure by themselves. just make it as fun as possible. videos w/ little animals, etc are good.
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Well first of all, why are you making it and not your son, after all it is HIS science project.\n\nTake a bottle, build a plaster of paris volcano mountain around it, put baking soda and red food dye into the bottle then just before the experiment is shown . add a teaspoon of vinegar - and watch the lava flow.\nBetter yet have your son do it under your supervision, he will learn more that way
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Build an abacus.  \nArrange 10 beads on a piece of piano wire.  Every fifth bead should be a different collor.\n--oo--oo0-oooo0--\nMake a few more strings and mount them together in parallel or inline with each other.\n------ooooxoooox\nooo----oxoooox--\n--ooooxoo----ooo\n\nA really cool math based model would be a display of geometric shapes.\n\nYou could go to the matherworld site and print out some patterns for the platonic solids.  Then cut them out and fold them together.  The collection can be displayed in a couple of ways.  The easiest would be to mount them on straws poking out from a block of styrofoam.  The most dramatic would be to arrange them to hang in a mobile.  If you want instructions on making a mobile, send an email to samphelps at yahoo.\n\nPlatonic solids are the 3 dimensional shapes where all the sides are the same.  The most familiar is a cube where each side is a square.  Another is the tetrahedron where each side is a triangle.
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Here are a few ideas:\n\n-Make ornaments.  Find a playdough recipe that you can bake in the oven.  The kids can use cookie cutters to make different Christmas shapes, don't forget to use a straw to poke a hole for string before you bake!\n-Frosty pictures.  Using crayons, color a winter scene picture on black or blue construction paper.  Boil about a cup of water and add about a cup of Epson Salts, disolve.  Have the kids brush the solution overtop of their pictures.  When it dries it should look frosty.  OR you can also dilute white paint with water in a spray bottle, invite the kids to spray "snow" onto their pictures.\n-Photocopy a picture of Santa's face...have the kids color the pic and glue cotton balls on his beard.\n-Trace kids hands on red and green paper.  Make a wreath with the hand cutouts.\n\nAlso check out this site for some great ideas...\nhttp://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/santa.html
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Providing a safe environment is number 1.  Then let them explore through arts and crafts.  Like making bubbles with different size wands, or finger painting.  Take them on a nature hike and point out things of interest and perhaps collect a few things and make a poster of them.  How about using an inflatable pool and fill it with sand, let them create a castle....Clay is always fun, and modeling clay never dries out.  Plus taking them to the library and having them explore through  books increase their interest in reading ( very valuable) and allows for a protected environment.\n\nTry some Kitchen Science experiments too.  These are cheep and fun!
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Well, the way I always did it was to build your model volcano out of usually brown playdoh.  One of the better methods is to take a discarded paper towel cardboard center and glue it to some sort of paper (best more cardboard) then build your volcano around it making sure to keep the hole in th center open.  Pour baking soda into it...take it to school and at the precise moment pour vinegar into the baking soda...I think some people put food coloring into it (bright orange)
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vinegar and baking soda. \nWill also be fun experiment for them!