MEDIA LANDSCAPE SCENE – Foreground, Middle Ground, Background

1. Use coloured construction paper 22.9 cm x 30.5 cm (9" x 12").
2. Choose the colour of paper you want for the sky.
3. Divide it into thirds horizontally – 7.6 cm sections.
   - choose bright green for the foreground
   - choose a softer green or brown for the middle ground
   - choose a soft blue or violet for the background
4. Cut the coloured paper into strips for each section.
5. Cut the middle ground strip slightly wider – about 8 cm.
6. Cut the foreground strip about 7.6 cm wide with a slightly wavy edge.
7. Cut the background strip about 3 cm wide that keeps changing to about 2 or 1.5 cm wide with a wavy edge that look like distant hills.

1. Glue the middle ground paper on first.
2. Let the foreground paper overlap the middle ground paper slightly, and glue it in place.
3. Let the background paper overlap the middle ground paper slightly, and glue it in place.

BASIC TREE

1. Cut out a trunk with 3 short branches at the top.
2. Cut out 3 organic shapes – 1 big, 1 medium and 1 small.
3. Glue the organic shapes to the short branches on the trunk.

BASIC LANDSCAPE SCENE

1. Make a big tree about 18 cm tall.
2. Make a small tree about 6 cm tall.
3. Think of the paper divided into thirds.
4. Place the big tree in the third on the left.
5. Glue it in place with the base of the trunk close to the bottom of the paper.
6. Place the small tree in the third on the right and half way up the paper.
7. Glue it in place.

DETAILED LANDSCAPE SCENE

1. Use the same technique to make 3 sizes of trees.
2. Add more organic shapes to the big tree.
3. Cut out paper shapes to represent grasses, clouds, sun and other details.

1. Glue the shapes in place.
2. Use the scene as a backdrop for your stop motion paper animation.