- 1). Chose the form the model will take. Create a model or diorama in a box. A diorama can be easily moved and makes a good project for children as well as adults. Figure out the size you wish make the model and choose a box to accommodate.
- 2). Read several accounts from credible sources about what took place on March 5, 1770, in Boston, Massachusetts. Check reference and history books. Contemporary accounts and later investigations give details of how many people were involved and the sequence of events. Paul Revere depicted the scene in an engraving widely circulated immediately after the incident but many historians dismiss it as an inaccurate piece of anti-British propaganda.
- 3). Decide which part of the action to represent. The Boston Massacre, a title that didn't become popular until years later, had several parts that could be represented including the crowd scene, the shooting itself or the aftermath.
- 4). Plan what you wish to depict first on paper by thinking in terms of a three-dimensional layout. Chart out buildings, characters and scenery. Show where everything needs to go for best viewing. Angle the action so viewers will be able to see the whole scope of what you're presenting.
- 5). Cut out building shapes and the road from the brown and black construction paper. Cut out trees and other plants from the green construction paper. If you prefer, download illustrations or cut them from books, glue them onto cardboard and cut out. Leave two inches at the bottom of the paper or cardboard shapes to fold back to help them stand. Fasten the shapes down with glue or double-stick tape inside the box.
- 6). Make the items that you plan to use in the diorama Boston Massacre model. Use brown and gray construction paper to create flat background buildings and a rutted roadway and green construction paper for trees or other greenery. When you download illustrations or copy them from books, glue then onto a cardboard back and cut out. Leave two inches at the bottom to fold back to help them stand. You decide whether to fasten the figures down permanently with glue or merely use double-stick tape to hold them in place.
- 7). Build three-dimensional shapes such as buildings or other items that attach to the box walls, but jut outward. Cut out the individual sides, glue together and let dry. After the shapes are dry, glue or tape them inside the box. Finally set the characters in place. Move them around until the action can be viewed from the best possible angle. Tape or glue the characters in place and present your model of the Boston Massacre.
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