Science in Art: Seasons-lesson #7

For Kara and Kelsey’s lesson, it was for 2^nd grade titled Science in Art: Seasons. We started off the lesson by taking half of a brown piece of paper and traced part of our arm and hand on the paper. This piece will be our tree trunk for either a winter or fall tree that we are creating. We then cut out our tree trunk. After that, we took our background piece of colored paper and put our name on the back. I chose a light blue piece of paper to do a winter tree.

We took our tree trunk and crumpled it up a little bit to create a textured look and then glued it onto our piece of paper. Kara and Kelsey did a great job of modeling how you can create your tree; either using tissue paper or cotton balls. They showed us how we could gently pull apart the cotton balls to create snow or clouds as well as using a pencil eraser to create leaves using the tissue paper. We then were allowed to go ahead and create either our winter or fall trees using those techniques that they demonstrated. When we were done with our trees, we had to add a background. We finally could put finishing touches on our trees such as: glitter, a landscape, snowmen, leaves, snow, etc. For my winter tree, I used cotton balls to make the tree and also used cotton balls on the bottom of the page to create snow. I also used dark blue glitter to make snowflakes and silver to make some snow on the ground.

An extension activity for this could be in a science lesson about trees. Maybe you are learning about different trees and the students can create projects like this one. After they create their tree, they could write a story about the tree and how they created it.