Apple Trees

Mine and Adelia's apple tree

We did some fun apple tree art projects the other day. I've been meaning to blog them, but haven't gotten around to it until now. I got the idea for this off of http://vividlayers.blogspot.com/ which is an art website my sister-in-law recommended to me. The lady who writes the blog teaches art for grades K-6 and has lots of cool ideas and projects for that age range.

Anyways, we did apple trees. Basically, you take a white piece of card stock and use crayons to make a tree trunk and grass. You want to do them fairly waxy if you can. Then, using blue water color, paint the sky (it's ok if the kids go over the trunk and grass with blue, that's why you do it waxy with crayon, so it will still stand out). Let that dry. Then, using poster paint and a small piece of sponge, sponge in the green tree leaves. Once that dries, use red poster paint and your thumbs to make the apples.

Here is Ivan's apple tree. I helped him with the trunk, but he did the rest on his own.

This is Lincoln's apple tree. He did the whole thing by himself. He also wanted to add roots to his.