First Grade- Overlapping Winter Trees

I think I need to stop doing winter projects, it's probably the cause of all the snow we have been getting this season.

This one is an easy one day project. Each student picked out 4 green pieces of construction paper, preferably all different shades. one 18 x 12, two 12 x 9, and one 6 x 9. We folded all of our papers in half "hot dog style". next we drew diagonal zig-zag lines. This was a little tricky. And we didn't want the lines to be too crazy because we had to cut them out later. After that, we had 4 pine trees.

Next we glued our pine trees onto our background paper; I had the students choose between purple or black. We glued the biggest one first, then medium size, then small. We realized we had to overlap our trees to fit them all on our paper. We added trunks to the bottom of our trees.

Last, students brought their papers to the spraying station where they used spray water bottles (old Windex bottles will work too) filled with half white paint, half water. They sprayed their paper a few times to create snow falling.