A Winter Forest

Kindergarten students were challenged with drawing and cutting zig-zag lines to form pine trees.  They selected different color papers they felt would balance well against one another.  They followed a series of directions that required sharp listening and drawing skills to draw and cut their zig-zag lines.

 Once all the trees were drawn, students carefully cut them out.  They tore paper to represent trunks and used white chalk to draw a snowy hill with gradated pressure and application.  The taller trees were glued onto the backgrounds and smaller trees were stuck onto their trunks using 3D-O's which allow the trees to raise off the background giving the finished overlapping shapes a sense of depth.  

Finally, dots of glue were applied and "snow" was carefully sprinkled onto their pictures.  You will find our wintery forests in the main hallways at Lincoln and Ravinia School and in our Treehouse (of course)!