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Preschool Christmas Tree Mosaic Craft

preschool christmas tree

 

I remember a time when Christmas celebrations didn’t start until officially December. Now that I’ve had children myself, the excitement if unbareable for both myself and them, and prepartions begin much earlier! And the crafting begins too!!


Our Christmas tree was recently decorated so my two year old is very focused on Christmas trees in general – thus began our crafting inspiration.


This is a very simple Christmas Tree craft and there’s no way to do it “wrong” and it looks pretty enough to think an older child made it.


What  you need:
Tin Foil Plate - so nice & shiny!
Green Foam or Heavy Green Construction Paper cut into random small peices
Random beads, sparkles and other “ornaments”
Scissors, White glue & Marker

Draw a triangle on the plate to give your child a target for gluing.

Next fill the triangle with glue. My daughter loved this part, and honestly, majorly over glued since that’s her favourite.

Lay, toss, sprinkle green pieces to “connect” and fill in the Christmas tree. My child actually “shoke” the pieces to get them to lay flat in the plate, genius move!

Decorate and glue with beads.

Optional – decorate the rest of the plate with ribbon or paint. The shimmer off the foil plate is really reflective and very Christmasy!

 

Have funcrafting  with your child!

Posted by momstown mama on 11/30/2012 - 00:23
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Teaching Seasons with a Simple Wall Tree

 

What better way to teach the changing of the seasons than with a wall tree!

 

For Fall: momstown got busy creating a large wall tree to hold all of our apples. It was a fun way to mark the season. All the neighbourhood kids got in on the action and spent a morning making apples and creating the tree.

 

Here's what you need to make it: 

Brown card stock or construction paper

scissors

blank wall

 

Here's what you need to do:

1. Create a tree using brown construction paper or card stock. You can tape sections together to create a larger than life creation!

 

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2.  Trace your handprint to create the green leaves.

 

tree craft, fall

 

3.  Tape the leaves and apples to the tree to complete your FALL display.

 

fall craft, tree,

 

This corner is in our basement playroom and we talked about making it a full four season tree. Taping up snowflakes in the winter and removing the leaves. Adding blossoms in the spring and loads of leaves in the summer.

Quite the discussion point and fantastic resource for learning seasons!

 

 

Posted by momstown mama on 10/03/2012 - 20:26
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