Elementary school students build cardboard cities

Amanda Becker:

After months of constructing miniature cardboard buildings and houses, more than 800 students from 10 Dane County elementary schools brought their box cities to Monona Terrace Friday.

The young architects and carpenters-in-training also brought their yellow hard hats with them, and spread their cities, like urban picnics, on green tarps representing the land, applying duct tape for roads and blue construction paper as water.

Each school created its own model city. A typical display filled the space of about three dinner tables.

The models showed whatever the children thought belonged in a city: people, cars, hospitals, police and fire departments and even schools.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 4, 2006 6:15 AM
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