We began by taking the papers that the kids had prepared with green tissue paper and cutting them into triangular tree shapes. They did have stencils of all different sizes and varying shapes to choose from. Some adventurous (and confident!) artists drew their own trees. The only "rule" around this part of the project was that the kids were required to create at least three trees. After drawing the trees on the back of the green paper the kids cut the trees out.
Next we moved on to the "winter sky" that the kids painted last week. With oil pastels they added a snowy hill along the bottom of the page, making sure to make the hill big enough to fit the forest of trees they had ready and waiting to add.
Once the snowy hill was added the kids took some time to carefully arrange their trees on the paper. They were encouraged to think about the qualities of a real natural forest. Instead of following the natural tendency to line the trees up in a row we talked about how trees are often close, even touching and how they often overlap. Some trees may be further away, some closer.
When they felt happy and settled in their compositions they glued their trees to the paper. We followed this by taking a brown oil pastel and giving each tree a trunk. Then they added little red berries and golden ornaments. Ta-dah!
Here are the final pieces for POOHVILLE!
And the final pieces for BEARVILLE!
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