Use cardboard food boxes, newspaper, glue and paint to make a city. This can take several days to finish, between drying the glue and the paint.
Start by cutting a large base for the city out of corrugated cardboard. Glue a cereal box on its side and continue stacking and gluing smaller boxes on top.
Use newspaper to cover all the boxes and fill in around the edges like rocks; the corrugated cardboard base can become a river or ocean. Wrap a long strip of cardboard around the "city" to represent the freeway. Paint everything appropriately--don't forget the center stripes on the freeway!
Make figurines out of aluminum foil, tape and newspaper. Twist a torso shape out of a sheet of newspaper. Twist arms and legs from newspaper and attach to the torso with tape. Fold a piece of newspaper into a square shape for the base. Tape the feet to the base.
Roll aluminum foil into a ball shape for the head and attach to the body by covering the whole figure with a sheet of aluminum foil. Bend into position. The figurine could be a ballerina, soccer player or mime depending on how it is shaped.
Dioramas are 3-D pictures. Choose from any landscape that you desire. Make a desert scene, an ocean, space or jungle diorama. Start with a box, such as a shoebox. Design the background on a sheet of paper, or directly on the inside of the box. Layer the picture with cut-out trees, people, animals and other elements of the scene you've chosen.
Paint or cover the outside of the project and display.