Winter Evergreen Tree

Supplies:

Watercolor paper, watercolor paint (I used the 8 color crayola pan), brushes, white oil pastel, glue,
single hole puncher and white scrap paper.

1. Using an oil pastel, draw a large triangle for the tree, a square or rectangle for the base, and a horizon
line behind the tree. You will need to press down firmly. You can add light lines on the ground to
represent snow banks.

2. Fill in the tree with green watercolor paint. You might also add yellow or blue for dimension.

3. Fill in the trunk with brown watercolor paint.

4. Fill in the ground with blue watercolor paint. I would recommend making it very watery, unlike in my
example. Or if you have a fancy silvery or glittery watercolor paint, that would look great too!

5. Fill in the sky with water first. Then add purple, red, and a small amount of blue in different places.
You can mix areas together. When the area is covered, dip your paintbrush in water and let it drop onto
the paper. This will create blooms that look like the Northern Lights!

6. While the paint dries, use your hole puncher to cut out a lot of white circles from scrap paper.

7. Use glue to add the white circles onto your painting to look like snow!
8. When completely finished and dry, trip the edges. You could glue it onto a larger piece of colored
paper to make a frame.

This is a great project for children of all backgrounds to make. You may allow some to turn it into a
Christmas tree if you would like, but I personally would have my students focus on natural looking trees
in the forest.