WINTER TREES!!!! Here are 5 WINTER TREE art lessons with multiple levels of instruction. Winter art lessons to teach in a classroom, at home, or for remote learning. Any art medium can be used to add in color: paints, color pencil, crayon, pastel.
- MIXED MEDIA BIRCH TREES grade 2-5
- WATERCOLOR WINTER TREES grade K-5
- SNOWY EVERGREEN PAINTING grade 2-5
- SNOWY TREES grade K-2
- CARDINAL IN THE SNOW grade 2-5
MIXED MEDIA BIRCH TREES
These stunning birch trees are created with a beautifully blended pastel background and a painted birch tree trunk, cut out and glued on.
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Students draw tree trunks and use a cardboard scrap to scrape black paint across the trunk, to create the texture of the birch tree.
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Let the paint is dry on the birch trees. On a new sheet of paper, color in with 2 or 3 colors of pastels. I use CRAYOLA DRAWING CHALK.
Cut out 1 or 2 of the birch tree trunks, and glue it on to the pastel background. Use a brush to paint in black branches from the tree trunk.
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Materials for MIXED MEDIA BIRCH TREES:
2 sheets of painting paper, pencil & eraser, CRAYOLA DRAWING CHALK or PASTELS, scissors, glue, black acrylic or tempera, cardboard scraps, paper plate, thin paintbrush
WATERCOLOR WINTER TREES
Blended watercolor skies and simply painted trees. These paintings are a fun project to add glitter paint on the snow, treetops, and snowflakes in the sky.
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Liquid watercolors work great for this project, to create blended colors in the sky.
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Materials for WATERCOLOR WINTER TREES:
Watercolor paper, Liquid watercolors, paintbrush, black paint, glitter paint (optional)
SNOWY EVERGREEN PAINTING
Snowy Evergreen Paintings are layers of painted papers to create a snowy hill with this sweet little evergreen tree.
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Paint 1/2 sheet of painting paper with turquoise and white paint in wavy, blended lines for the snow. Paint a tree trunk on the other half of the paper. Once the paint dries, cut wavy strips from the turquoise and white painted paper and cut out the tree trunk.
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Glue the snowy strips of paper to the bottom of a black cardstock paper. Glue on the tree trunk (tuck it a bit into the snow hills.
Paint layers of greens to form a tree shape from the trunk of the tree. Use the backend of the paintbrush to add in snow, in the sky, over the tree and ground.
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Materials for SNOWY EVERGREEN PAINTING:
Black card stock, painting paper, scissors, glue, paintbrush, acrylic or tempera paint- white, turquoise, brown and green (2 shades)
SNOWY TREES
Snowy trees are for K-2. A fun lesson in mixing paint and creating texture.
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Blue Card Stock creates a background, so only the ground and trees need to be painted.
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Materials for SNOWY TREES PAINTING:
Blue card stock, paintbrush, acrylic or tempera paint- white, turquoise, brown and green (2 shades)
CARDINAL IN THE SNOW
This cardinal and birch tree winter painting, can be done on canvas as a holiday gift or for a lovely winter display. Always turns out beautiful.
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Using acrylic paint. Paint a white ground and any shade of blue or turquoise in the sky. Paint in gray trees and a white streak on one side of the tree to create a light side. Use the sky color to paint in shadows from the bottom of each tree trunk.
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I have students use their finger, with a dot of red paint to make the cardinal body and head. Use the back of the brush to make dots of snow in the sky. Paint a shadow under the cardinal. Paint an orange beak. Add on a black patch on the face and legs.
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MATERIALS FOR CARDINAL IN THE SNOW:
Painting paper, medium and small paintbrush, acrylic or tempera paint– white, turquoise, gray, red, and orange
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