Start with an empty shoe box, and paint the front wall and the two side walls to look like a beautiful blue sky. (Sky wall paper can also be used.) Paint the back wall to look like green grass with little flowers. The bottom of the box should be covered with "grass. To do this, either glue down some moss, or take a bag of shredded coconut and shake it up in some green food color. Allow it to dry and then glue to the bottom. Cut out and create 3-D animals such as deer, rabbits, squirrels and raccoons out of poster board and glue parts of the animals together, then glue in the field. You can also use pre-made miniature animals if you wish. Glue down some tiny silk flowers around the field. Allow it all to dry.
To create a spring at the lake scenario diorama, glue on the back wall of the shoe box a blue-green lake with the sky at the very top area of the wall and slightly to the sides by using some aqua-colored felt material. If you can find a nice picture of a lake in a magazine, you can glue it on top of the felt. On the other three walls, paint the sky or glue one from a magazine and create a few trees with brown and green felt material. On the floor of the box, create the parameter of the lake by gluing some earth colored clay around the edges. Using either moss or green dyed coconut shavings, create the grassy area beyond the lake boundaries. Ducks and geese can be either pre-made or made with painted clay or white felt material. Glue them around the water and perhaps place a few on the grassy areas as well. Be sure to glue brightly-colored silk flowers around the grass.
To create a forest diorama in the springtime, paint the walls of the shoe box sky color. The bottom of the box should be textured with earth-colored clay. Create some trees using items such as Popsicle sticks with green felt leaves cut out and glued on. Place trees thickly around the bottom of the "forest floor". Painting some trees on the walls over the sky will also help create a nice effect. Leaves on trees should be light green to show that they are just beginning to bloom. Add flowers to some trees, as springtime is when most flowering tree species also begin to bloom. Either create small flowers for the trees out of felt or use pre-made silk ones.