Wintertime Wonderland Snow Covered Copse

*Grades iii-v, *Grades 6-8, *K-2, *Preschool, Drawing, Painting, Wintertime

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Students will learn how to paint snow covered trees as they create winter wonderland paintings.

Past Rebecca Engelman [Rebecca is an fine art educator at Cathedral Schoolhouse in Bismarck, ND.]

Objectives:

  • Instruction on the structure of copse.
  • Emphasis on how the tree gets smaller as it grows and branches and twigs.
  • Ascertainment of how snow sets on branches.

What Y'all Need:

  • Variety of colored construction papers in shades of blueish.
  • Assorted brown crayons.
  • White tempera
  • White glitter
  • Paint brushes

What You lot Do:

If possible, have students outside subsequently a snow to discover how the snow sits on the upper side of the tree branches. Students should also observe how the tree is thick at the base (their own legs and stomachs),divides into smaller branches (like their artillery), and then split once again into smaller twigs (their fingers).

  1. Have students choose a shade of bluish paper for their background.
  2. Students draw trees on their blueish newspaper starting at the bottom of the tree.
    • Use a dark-brown crayon and press hard.
    • Make the branches reach towards the sky.
    • Make sure that branches get smaller as they split.
    • Select another shade of brownish crayon and layer information technology over the first brown. (Gives the tree a sense of texture)
  3. Employ thick white tempera to paint snow on the summit-side of the branches.
  4. Add snow to the basis, around the tree.
  5. Yous may use an old toothbrush dipped in white paint to spatter snowflakes on the background.
  6. Rapidly sprinkle white glitter on the wet tempera pigment to make the "snowfall" coruscate.

Snow covered trees.

I am an elementary art teacher at Ridgemont Elementary School in Mt. Victory, Ohio. My fourth grade form recently completed your projection "Winter Wonderland" which I found on the KinderArt website (with slight variations; we used pastel to highlight the sky expanse earlier we drew our trees and we skipped the glitter because we were out of it!). Let me say that it was a complete success! When I hung these artworks on the wall of our cafeteria in January, everyone raved about them! No one could believe that they had been washed by quaternary graders. The class has been so proud of their project and pleased with all the compliments they take received (then have I). Thanks and then much for your idea.

~Marianne Galyk (See the piece of work from Marianne's fourth graders at the top of this lesson and below.)

Winter Wonderland Snow Covered Trees