Triangle Tree

Here is an easy one shot lesson plan that makes me and the kids happy.  They love to paint, I love the whimsical shapes and lines they create.  Today's class is using a magenta background and a chartreuse colored tree for even more whimsy!

Materials: 9x12 background paper, green square or rectangle (6x6 or 6x9), brown scrap for trunk, white paint and q-tip for painting.

I show students how to draw an X on their green paper: from corner to corner.  When you cut it out, you get four triangles.  A little geometry never hurt anyone.  As we stack them into a tree and glue them down, we do some trimming so the top is smaller than the bottom.



Immy

This tree took two and a half squares.  It is ready to paint.


When others look at our paint they will see snow.  But the artist who paints the picture is thinking of interesting lines to show a gust of wind, snow on the branches, piles of snow on the ground.