I have a unique project for you today, an animal habitat triorama, to showcase 3 different types. Also, look at my page Trioramas: How To Create Engaging Visual Narratives For Kids for more ideas.
Surely you know what a diorama is, but have you ever had your children make a triorama?
It is the same basic principle as a diorama, but it gives you three different sections to work in.
This is a great activity to compare and contrast the differences in whatever your topic is.
Dioramas and trioramas can be adapted for preschoolers through high school teens.
And they are a wonderful hands-on activity that can be used for most subjects and topics of interest.
For today’s activity, we are doing a land, sea, and water animal triorama to learn about their various habitats.
The 8 major habitats are polar, tundra, evergreen forests, seasonal forests, grasslands, deserts, tropical rainforests, and oceans.
You can let your child choose which 3 habitats they highlight and which creature for each one.
Our animal habitat triorama consisted of ocean/coral reef for our sea turtle in the water.
The rainforest in the canopy for our cockatoo in the sky.
And woodlands for our fox on the land.
ALL ABOUT ANIMAL HABITATS
Animals live in all sorts of different places, called habitats.
Their habitat provides them with everything they need to survive, like food, water, shelter, and a place to raise their young.
Some animals live in forests, which are like big, green jungles.
Forests are home to many kinds of animals, like deer, squirrels, bears, and owls.
Other animals live in grasslands, which are like big, open fields.
Grasslands are home to animals like lions, zebras, elephants, and giraffes.
Deserts are hot, dry places where animals like camels, snakes, and scorpions live.
Tundra is a cold, snowy place where animals like polar bears, caribou, and Arctic foxes live.
Oceans are home to all sorts of sea creatures, like fish, whales, dolphins, and sharks.
Animals have adapted to living in their specific habitats.
For example, polar bears have thick fur to keep them warm in the cold Arctic tundra.
Camels have long legs and wide feet to help them walk through the desert sand.
Marine mammals like whales and seals have streamlined bodies to help them move through water efficiently.
AMAZING RESOURCES FOR YOUR ANIMAL HABITAT TRIORAMA
First watch, All About Habitats: Kids’ Guide to Tundra, Deserts, Grasslands, Forests, and More to help your child better understand the different habitats.
Water
Freshwater habitats are rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, swamps, wetlands, bogs and lagoons.
Marine Habitats include oceans, seas and coral reefs.
Land
Terrestrial habitats (or where creatures live on land) include forests, deserts, grasslands, mountain, tundra and polar ice.
Sky
An aerial habitat is a type of habitat that exists in the air, this would include birds, insects, and bats and would be within all of the other habitats.
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Next, look at these fun animal habitat activities to try.
MORE ANIMAL HABITAT ACTIVITIES TO TRY
- Fun Arctic Habitat Diorama and Fascinating Facts About Walruses
- Take a look at two very different habitats with the Arctic Animals & Forest Animals: Comparing Animal Habitats.
- Awesome Serengeti African Savanna Fun Facts | Free Color By Number
- Enjoy some Hands-on Learning on Animal Habitats for Preschool.
- See my How To Make A Shoebox Toucan Habitat Diorama With Waterfall for a different style of display like the triorama.
- Fun Hands-On Bee Activities for Kids Make a Mason Bee Habitat
- Free Color By Number Penguin And Penguins Antarctica Habitat
- Learn how animals hide within their habitat with these 8 Animal Camouflage Activities and Resources & Fun Camouflage Art
- The Wonders of Nature: Free Color by Number Sloth Rainforest Habitat Page
- 5 Easy Bat Stem Activities and Create a STEM Bat Habitat
- Simplify and highlight just one habitat by following the tutorial on How to Make an Easy Wetlands Paper Plate Habitat Diorama.
Finally, look at how to make this fun animal habitat triorama.
HOW TO MAKE A WATER, LAND, AND SKY ANIMAL HABITAT TRIORAMA
You will need:
- Three paper plates
- Scissors
- Land, sea, and water plastic animal figure
- Craft paint
- Paint brushes
- Construction paper, rocks, twigs,
First fold your paper plate in half and press across the crease to get a sharp fold.
Open the paper plate and repeat folding it in half in the opposite direction.
You’re going to want to do this three times.
Along the lines cut from the edge of the paper plate to the center.
Bend your paper plate so that the cut section has the two flaps laid one on top of the other, repeat with all three plates.
Then, hot glue your folded plates back to back.
Do this on a hard surface so that the bottom is fairly flat and level.
Now use paint or markers or crayons to color each section to resemble the water and land.
Allow paint to dry.
The next step is to start adding a little more detail to each section.
You can do this by cutting or tearing shapes out of construction paper, cotton balls, for clouds, additional paint, details, small rocks, and small twigs, etc., the skies the limit.
I like to use whatever we have on hand for this project so that means we gathered rocks and twigs from the yard,
Once you have everything glued into place, just add your land and water animal into the proper section and your triorama is ready for display.
