This past month, my preschoolers were learning all about seasons. One day we made the following craft to illustrate how a tree changes during the different times of the year.
I printed out 4 of these tree trunk pages for each child:
I had each of them color all 4 trunks brown, then we decorated each one to go along with each season.
For Winter, we glued cotton on the tops and on the ground to resemble snow.
For Spring, we made green handprints for green leaves, then ripped colored paper to resemble blossoms in the tree.
For summer, we made even more green handprints and glued a paper sun in the corner.
For Fall, we used our fingertips to make leaves in fall colors.
(not sure why those last 2 pictures posted sideways, sorry!)
When everything was dry, we added this cover to the front and stapled the pages together to make a book.
Easy, fun and educational! My first grader came home and saw his sister's book and was begging to make one of his own!
Have fun!
Always a cute idea! I used to do a tissue paper version when I taught kindergarten. I think the tree pattern I used was much smaller than yours as all four fit on one page. The tree was cut out of brown construction paper and the "leaves" were scrunched up tissue paper suitable for each season. Bare with just a few white ones scattered all over the page for snow in winter. green with pink "blooms" thrown in for spring, all green for summer, and orange, yellow, and red for autumn. I think I had a poem for each month too.
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