Alison's Coyote Diorama

In her class at school Alison was assigned to write a report and make a diorama for an animal of her choice.  She chose the coyote.  I looked at 4 different stores to try to find a little coyote figure, but never did.  So instead I made it out of dough from Michaels.  I made two coyotes....the first one was the better of the two but was smashed as it was being air-dried by our curious little 3 year old!  So frustrating!  I kind of wished that Alison had picked a different animal, like one that we already had.  We have well over 100 little plastic animal figurines in a container to play with.  Not one of them is a coyote!  Anyway...In the end, it all turned out pretty nice and I tried not to do the whole project all myself (because it was fun and I never got to make a diorama when I was in Elementary school!).