Great for a display board or side board! Print out the tree, better to enlarge (currently on A4) and then cut out and laminate the tree. I write words on the leaves and we repeat them everyday but you can also ask the children to write their names and decorate their leaves and stick them on and have it as a class tree with everyone's name! Remember to laminate the leaves if you are planning to re-use them! Many ways to use this tree! Hope you like it:)
Download our free tree template that's perfect for making seasonal crafts for kids - or a whole four seasons craft!
Learn how to make a simple classroom tree using cardboard and tissue paper with this easy tutorial!
A kindness tree activity is a fun and effective whole school project to build community!A kindness tree bulletin board is a beautiful and creative way to encourage and acknowledge acts of kindness
One of the ways to celebrate Christmas and to make the waiting for it more fun is decorating our houses, rooms, yards and even workplaces with lights, garlands, and of course, the Christmas tree.
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Download our free tree template that's perfect for making seasonal crafts for kids - or a whole four seasons craft!
This week my 3rd and 4th grade students kicked off the first week of Fall by making leaf prints!! These leaves came off a sycamore tree and have a sort of fuzz on the back that soaks up the watercolors and allows them to blend beautifully! I let them paint it however they wanted. This student painted the sky on hers and asked me to take a picture of the leaf against the sky to see the camouflage effect! We used the crayola 16 color box which is my absolute fav right now! We tried it with other leaves too Students learned about craftsmanship and we talked about keeping their paper background nice and clean without smudges. My younger grades made crayon resist paintings and leaf rubbings with multiple colors. We are ready for Fall and cooloer temps in Houston!
Whether you're just looking for some fun tree activities or you need tree unit study ideas we've got the perfect fit. These tree themed activities are fun and easy enough for preschool.
This family theme preschool all about me printables includes activities, family worksheets for kindergarten + family tree worksheets too.
My free tree templates are the perfect way to create art with your kids during any season especial fall and spring.
We don't do a lot of finger painting in our classroom, but we probably should! The children love to stick their hands and fingers into the paint - even when supplied with brushes and instructions to use them! :) This past week, I thought, why fight it? Painting is fun, but indulging in the act of dipping hands and fingers into the paint makes it an awesome sensory experience, as well! So we did some fall tree finger painting and saw quite the variety of results! There were trees with small fingerprint leaves evenly distributed around the page... trees with large blobs of leaves and fully painted trunks and branches... and then there were the full-on hand smeared extravaganzas! That reminds me. You'll want to have paint smocks on hand as well as some damp paper towels for finger wiping at the table! But surprisingly, the finger painting process was not much messier than when we use paint brushes. When I prepared this craft, I cut the tree shapes out of brown paper. The students then glued the tree cut outs onto a blue page before they started painting. Another option would be to print copies of a tree image on blue paper and then have the children do the painting directly on the page. The students could then colour or paint the tree trunk AND add the leaves. (And you would save time by not having to cut anything out!) If you'd like to try this craft in your classroom, you may want to download the free tree printable below. And if you'd like to try a similar, but more involved project, you may want to download this page of 4 trees. Your class could paint one for each season! If you decide to try worksheet #2, you may want to do one tree at a time to avoid confusion (and lots of smudging!) Since the trees on this printable are smaller, you may also want to consider having the students paint the leaves on these trees with a Q-tip rather than their fingers - or at least offering the suggestion! To be notified of more ideas and freebies like this, just click on the sidebar of my blog to receive my posts by e-mail. I post a couple of new ideas every week! To download the tree images, just click {here}.
Looking for a Christmas tree template for your next holiday craft project or activity? We’ve got you covered! Below you’ll find 8 different Christmas tree shapes in all different sizes - Both super simple tree templates and more complicated tree outlines for preschoolers, kids, teens and adults. Use them as a stencil or pattern, or even just as a Christmas tree coloring sheet. There’s 25 different printable pages and they’re all free for you to download and print! These Christmas tree shapes are great for Christmas crafts, camping crafts, holiday school activities and really any craft or activity where you might
Learn about amazing trees with this fun, and free hands-on unit study. Free nature unit studies for homeschooling from The Crafty Classroom.
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Coin Rubbing Money Tree - A Hands-on Money Activity This is a fun way to explore coins in a hands-on way. My kids love anything to do with money: counting money, playing with money, experiments with money, and so on! This is a great way to reinforce coin size, as well as coin recognition as the patterns are rubbed through with crayon. This is LOW prep and can be done whenever you want to introduce, practice, or review coins. What you need: coins (if you have any foreign or unusual coins, this makes it even more fun!) crayons, without their wrapping a bare tree. Paint or draw one yourself, or print out the image below (click to view larger): For a challenge, have your child add up how much their money tree is worth, or see how many of the state quarters they can identify: Some of the state quarters make really nice rubbings! Looking for more Money activities? Learning is so much more fun when you use games, so I have created several games and activities to actively engage students in money: More money activities: Fishing for money at an indoor carnival Pin this idea for later:
A fun wedding DIY project - download this fingerprint tree template to create your own free fingerprint tree wedding guest book.
Use this collection of Gustav Klimt teaching resources and complete Klimt Famous Artist Unit lesson plans for elementary art classes.
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The Fall Preschool Unit is packed full of hands on math & literacy activities as well as no prep worksheets for easy lesson planning.
I love teaching about trees because there’s much to discover all year, during any season. From bark to leaves, trees are amazing wonders of nature! If you’re planning on studying trees …
This Fingerprint Fall Tree Craft is a beautiful and engaging craft for preschoolers. Take a peak at the easy directions!
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In this mixed media painting we used oil pastels and watercolors in order to learn the ranges of warm and cool colors. With students of Grade 6th we created these trees to recognize and use this ki…
This family theme preschool all about me printables includes activities, family worksheets for kindergarten + family tree worksheets too.
This popular watercolor birch trees art lessons is a fun way to tie in the winter holidays with your students art. With simple supplies of tape, salt, and
Zacchaeus is a real-life example of the power that Jesus has to change our hearts. The goal in this lesson is for the children to feel the darkness and ugliness of sin, and then experience the joy and miracle of forgiveness when Zacchaeus meets Jesus! Bible Truth: Jesus has the power to forgives my sin. Bible Story: Jesus changes Zacchaeus' heart. Bible Study: Luke 19:1-10; I Corinthians 5:7 teach cha-ching! To tell the story of Zacchaeus "hands-on" style gather up these items: children's picture Bible, or flannel graph scenery and characters a small bag or coin pouch loose change a cut-out of a black heart and a white heart Peak your class's interest in your lesson by shaking the bag, and letting them guess what is inside. They will probably easily guess that you have money in your bag! Pass out a coin for each child to hold throughout the lesson. (Remind them that they should never put coins in their mouths!) Read the story of Zacchaeus from a children's picture Bible, or tell it in your own words with visuals, such as flannel graph. Introduce Zacchaeus as a short man, who was a tax collector. His job was to collect money that people had to pay to the king. But Zacchaeus took more money from people than he was supposed to. If someone was supposed to pay one coin to the king, Zaccahaeus made them pay two coins, and he would keep one of the coins for himself. That is called stealing. Zacchaeus was rich and had lots of money, but nobody wanted to be his friend because he stole money from them. He had a dark sinful heart. Hold up the dark heart as you describe Zacchaeus' dark and sinful heart. Go on to tell the rest of the story of Zacchaeus meeting Jesus, as you show pictures from the children's Bible or manipulate flannel graph characters. At the conclusion of the story, talk about how amazing it is that Jesus changed Zacchaeus' heart! He used to be a man that stole people's money, but now he gives his money away to people! Jesus did a miracle! Only Jesus has the power to take a dirty, sinful heart and give us a new clean heart! Zacchaeus repented, he turned away from his sin, and followed Jesus! Hold up the white heart as you describe how Jesus changed Zacchaeus' heart. Lead the class in a prayer, asking Jesus to forgive their sin, and change their hearts so they can follow Jesus like Zacchaeus. After you pray, collect the coins from the children. Tell them that they are giving the money back just like Zacchaeus did after he repented. sing Zacchaeus (was a wee little man) is a Sunday School classic, and the perfect song to reinforce the story they just heard. Be sure to do some actions with the song! The Repent Song is the same song we learned along with the story of John the Baptist, so it's great review and repetition. Follow the link for the lyrics and actions. The Bath Song is a great song about how Jesus washes away our sin with "super soap." The "call back" format makes it really easy to sing along! craft color & paste Here is a coloring sheet from Sermons 4 Kids of Jesus talking to Zacchaeus in the tree. Cut pieces of green paper, or green tissue paper into leaves for the children to glue onto the tree. zacchaeus meets Jesus A good craft is one that helps children retell the story that they learned. This craft does exactly that! You will need: this print out in (black & white) or (color) card stock scissors hole punch yarn green tissue paper glue clear tape crayons (optional) To prepare, print the print out page onto card stock. Cut on the dotted line, and cut out Zacchaeus. Punch a hole at the top and bottom of the tree. Cut out approximately 1" x 1" squares of green tissue paper. Cut yarn into 16" lengths. In class, provide glue for the children to attach the squares of tissue paper to the tree as leaves. Lace the yarn throught the holes and tie it behind the tree. If using the black and white version, provide crayons for the children to color Jesus and Zacchaeus. Tip: Tie the yarn near the top of the page, and attach Zacchaeus to the bottom of the page. It is easier for the kids, if you let them glue on the leaves before you add the yarn. Use clear tape to attach Zacchaeus to the yarn. Tip: Set the clear tape under the yarn, sticky side up, and then press Zacchaeus onto the tape. Move Zacchaeus up and down the tree to retell the story! up and down the tree For this craft you will need: this tree pattern this Zacchaeus pattern green construction paper jumbo craft sticks yarn scissors hole punch crayons glue tape To prepare, cut out the top, leaf portion of the tree pattern, and use it to trace onto green construction paper. Cut out tree and Zacchaeus figures. Punch a hole near the top of the trees. Cut yarn into approximately 7" lengths. In class, provide crayons for the children to color Zacchaeus, and the jumbo craft stick. Help them attach the tree to the craft stick with glue. Tape Zacchaeus to the yarn, thread the yarn through the hole in the tree, and tie the yarn off in the back to move Zacchaeus up and down the tree. Find more ideas and for teaching your child at home about Zacchaeus and his encounter with Jesus, here!
