Mark, and his Son, from Boston, love making fantastic 3D cardboard dioramas. Let’s take a look at their fantastic cardboard model of a spooky graveyard…

What did you do?

Please see info for spooky graveyard below –

Things you need:

  • Cardboard box
  • Scissors
  • Paint
  • Pen/Pencil
  • String

Step by step instructions:

1. Cut top off of box (keep panels to use later).

2. Draw outline of graves and fence.

3. Cut around outline.

4. Draw background hills, clouds, gravestone, moon, ghost, skeleton hand on top panels of box.

5. Glue Gravestone, hills, moon, etc into scene

6. Cut rows of grass out of paper

7. Paint everything!

8. Cut a slit into the bottom of the box next to the gravestone so you can fit the skeleton hand up and puppeteer from underneath the box.

9. Put a small hole into the ghost head, tie string to ghost head and attach the other end to a piece of cardboard that you can hold.

10. Wait till dark and shine a flashlight onto the graveyard and get spooky!

Tell us a bit about yourself…

My name is Mark. I’m a Graphic Designer with a 3yr old son. We live just outside of Boston. In my spare time I like to make things out of cardboard for my little one. It’s free material that we all have access too and after the kid is bored of it, we can recycle it. A win-win! Instagram: @greenbomb

How have you found being housebound recently?

It took us all a few weeks to adjust to the housebound routine. We have found a few things that work and are able to use a small portion of the day to teach him his letters and numbers. Mostly we are playing games with him and doing our best to keep him happy. 1 Major thing was his temper tantrums and the need for him to get his energy out. For this, we wrestle, jump off the bed and have pillow fights!

Thanks to social media, there is an endless amount of activities that are being posted by other parents that we can try with our son.

We have found it’s important to give our son a few jobs around the house to help foster his independence and to earn him coins.  We have plastic gold coins that he earns by cleaning up his toys, doing his letters/numbers, and going potty. At first 3 coins = a lego guy. We slowly upped the ante and now he earns 10 coins to get a lego pack.