Paper City

An indoor craft activity as large as your imagination. Create one building or make an entire city with people, castles, bridges, trees and more.

paper / cardboard / boxes / glue or stickytape / textas / scissors / Blu Tack

Make a background for your city – what colour is the sky? Are there any trees?
Use boxes to make buildings – you could cut holes for windows or draw windows with people and furniture inside.
Stick your background on a wall with Blu Tack and put your buildings in front of the background.
Keep building your paper city – what is missing? You might add another building or a park, maybe even some people.

Conduct a tour of your paper town
Create a performance set in your paper town.
Add something new to your town each day – a tree, a shop, a person
Ask your friends and family what they like about the town/city that they live in – interview someone who lives in a different town to you.

How many people live in your house? How many people do you think live in your street? How many people live in your town/city?
What makes you like a particular town/city?
What did your city/town look like before your street was built?
Who are the traditional owners of the land that you live on?

See what cities others have made!

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