It's 8 pm and darling daughter is wailing. She forgot to make her school diorama project due TOMORROW! Been there done that. But being an eleventh hour girl myself, I bailed her out. The whole family helped. We made an awesome woodland Native American diorama with stuff around the house. From that experience grew this guide to making homemade shoe box dioramas for any content area. All you need is a recycle bin, craft scraps, household junk and a little ingenuity. And I was thinking--this project would be great for homeschool, Vacation Bible School, religious education. Catholic kids might use it to make dioramas, or retablos of saints or Bible stories. Here's one we saw in Lousiana at St. John the Evangel in Lafayette. Homemade, Recycle Bin Shoe Box Dioramas, Miniatures, Props