Cardboard Cityscape or Country Town

Students have particular guidelines to follow. They need to have at least three cardboard layers, with cutouts and additional details adding to their final grades. I give the students a handout of old-fashioned stores, barns, and homes. They can combine them in any way they wish. We talk about how older homes are often symmetrical. I always ask for the projects to be painted in shades. Afterward, they see how nicely all of the "blackened" colors go together.

If the students are going to make a city block, I show them Romare Bearden's, The Block.