Material Used for Price Price Availability
Polystyrene Scraps Can be shaped in all kind way to create hills, rocks and buildings. 0 0 Construction Sites, renovated houses...
Styrofoam Packaging Often already shaped in interesting ways, can be used to create buildings like bunkers or other interesting industrial landscapes. 0 0 Home, garbage
Branches, Sticks Can be used as tree trunks, wooden fort walls, logs etc. 0 0 Outside
Plastic Bottles Use to create propane tanks, silos etc. 0 0 From recycling box
Cereal Boxes Cardboard Use to cover other materials and to add details to your buildings. 0 0 From recycling box
Sand Use as sand or dirt by painting it 0 0 At the park, the beach or sandbox
Saw Dust Use to create a forest floor or paint to look like grass. 0 0 Cut a few piece of wood and collect the sawdust.
Pebbles Represents rocks or debris. 0 0 Side of the road, parks, woods
Corrugated Cardboard Boxes Use to create building walls. Peel layers and keep only the corrugated part to look like corrugated steel sheets. 0 0 From old boxes.
Plastic Containers Use to create buildings. Cut to shape to create detailed surfaces like metal sheets. 0 0 From recycling box
Paper Towel Rolls Can look like large concrete pipes for sewage or industrial complexes 0 0 Recycling box.
Popsicle Sticks Use as planks. 0 1 From popsicles or buy at dollar store
Plastic Coffee Sticks Can be made to look like electric wires stuck on the side of a building. 0 1 Grocery, Dollar Store
Wires Use to represent cables or twist together to create shapes like trees, tentacles or other organic shapes. 0 1 Use wires of old electronics or buy at dollar or hardware store.
Toothpicks, bamboo skewer Can be used as poles, spears etc. 0 1 From your kitchen or buy a package at grocery.
Paper Towel Sheets Use with watered down glue as papier-mache to look like leather, fabric or organic surfaces. 0 2 From your kitchen or buy roll at grocery.
Balsa Wood Available in all kind of size, can be used as beams or planks. 0 10 Craft Store or fruit boxes.
Screen Cloth Use to create mesh fences. 0 10 At home (cats & kids often destroy screens), building centre
Lichen / Reindeer Moss To create bushes, tree foliage 0 10 Local forest, buy at craft store
Cork Cut and paint to look like marble tiles. 0 10 From an old cork board. Craft Store
Pine Cones Can look like evergreen trees. 0 10 Look around trees or buy at craft store.
Toy parts Can be used for an infinite variety of projects but look especially for gears, wheels and weapons. 0 10 Look in old toy boxes or thrift stores toy section.
Masonite To create sturdy base for your terrains, resistant to warping. 0 20 from old drawer bottoms, back of frames, cork boards or buy at Building Centre
Old linoleum Flip over, paint and use as a rolling mat for your gaming table base. 0 50 From renovation or ask for roll ends at renovation centre
Bending Straws Use to create pipes. 1 2 Grocery, Dollar Store
Acrylic Paint To paint surfaces and details. 1 3 Dollar Store, Craft Store
Foam Core Boards Use to create building walls. 1 5 Dollar Store, Craft Store
Sponges Cut in the shape of bushes. 1 5 Dollar Store, Grocery
Flocking Materials Create grass, dirt, bushes and other ground surfaces or vegetation. 3 20 Craft Store
Can of Insulating Foam Create organic looking shapes, lava, or oozing surfaces. 5 10 Hardware Store
Plaster Mix with sand or use plaster sheets to create special shapes. 5 20 Hardware Store, Craft Store
Realistic Water Create ponds, lakes, river or fountain water. 10 20 Craft Store
Water Effects Create waterfalls or rapids. 10 20 Craft Store
Polystyrene Sheets Can be shaped in all kind way to create hills, rocks and buildings. 10 30 Building Centre