Kindergarten Fall Trees

Fall was in the air when we started these trees a couple of weeks ago.  Unfortunately, crazy winter has already set in and we have below zero wind chills.  Any of our beautiful fall trees are frozen.  These trees offer a wonderful warm pop of color.

This was a 3 day project.

Day one we read the book Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf learned all about those beautiful warm colors-red, orange, and yellow.  We used sponges to paint our paper so our colors could overlap and mix.

Day two we layered our green and yellow paint for grass on the bottom of the paper.  Everyone did their best to create great texture with short little brushstrokes.  Then, we thought and thought...what capital letter would make a good tree? an I? a T? better yet a Y!  We pretended we were a seed beneath the soil and grew very tall and spread our branches.  After acting it out we were ready to paint our tree.
Day three today! We discussed the edges and textures of leaves, and yes, we were able to tear our warm color painting and glue down as many or as few leaves we wanted.