This is my first completed diorama. It is a model and draft for a real (hopefully) construction and its scale is 1m->5cm. The construction materials for the building and the ground are cardboard (mainly), clay, stucco and sifted soil. The grass was made in two ways: One was with finely cut, painted sponge (the yellow part of it) and the second was with painted (in various shades) sawdust. For the roof I used the green part of sponges (to give volume) and on top I glued the grass. At the edge of the diorama I have built a structure that looks like a well which will actually be something like a wood stove, and on top I have placed the solar oven.
The glues I used were PVA and hot silicone.
You can see the progress of the work (as well as the interior of the hobbit house) in the gallery photos.
Problems
The diorama was done at almost minimal cost (since it was originally intended to be used as a blueprint for something else). This means that I used whatever materials were available at the time. So in hindsight, I think the choice of cardboard was problematic as I mostly used cardboard pieces, which have a gap on the side (between their two sheets) which looks ugly.
Also, the roof does not rest at all on one of the door columns.
Easy constructions with cardboard rolls to make with your child. I've seen most of them from websites and videos (there are tons of ideas out there if one is willing to look for them). The materials I used are toilet paper rolls, thick colored cardboard, eyelets for crafts, paints.
The small planes are about 5 to 7 cm in size. Here I used thin cardboard rolls, temperas, silicone glue, craft wood, bottle caps and for the helicopter some extra materials (plastic for the rear propeller, a metal base for the propeller and a piece of glass for the front).
From time to time we have made other crafts with our children but I couldn't find them (lost through time and changing houses).
the publications of colleagues, Nov. 2021
Summer of 1969, Italy. A year after May '68, FIAT workers began a dynamic and unmediated strike against their powerful boss. Their struggle marked the beginning of a decade of workers' and students' mobilizations and the rise of the Autonomy movement. It was characterized by many as the last invasion of the working class into the sky. Last ... let's hope until the next one ...