Mt. Bethel Art Enrichment

First grade teachers said their students like to do holiday/seasonal projects this time of year so we've come up with a fun Fall Forest project.  This is a great project to think about distance since some trees will be closer, on top of trees that are further away. Also, we can start thinking about branches in trees instead of just the big fluffy parts and of course we can think about all the gorgeous fall leaf colors we have seen.

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Supplies you'll need from the art closet

Multiple colors of construction paper

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Supplies you'll need in from the classroom

Scissors

Glue stick

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How to make it:

Pass out a sheet of construction paper to each child, whatever they want their background to be ( blue for sky, pink, yellow, white. Dark colors will be harder to see dark trunks of trees but it's art, if they have a vision, let them do it! Then put several sheets of fall tree color paper in the middle of the table for kids to share, they'll cut their tree shapes from that.  Also put some ground color option sheets in the middle of the table.

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Have the kids cut out a strip of paper to glue on as the ground, about an inch thick but that isn't strict.

Then they will cut out several shapes for the trees, oval, circle, triangle even rectangles. They should be no more than half the height of their base paper. 

Glue the shapes on in a row across the middle of the paper, when they over lap and are lower the tree is closer to the viewer, higher and behind is further away.

Draw trunks touching the ground strip into the tree shape and draw different lines coming out of the trunk into the shapes for the branches.  

They can decorate the sky with clouds, sun, birds anything either cut out shapes and glue or draw with crayons.