Magical Tree Collages

Second grade began the year making vines, leaves, and flowers. These activities flowed naturally into a unit on line types and directions with trees. We began with traditional drawings. I then gave them paper straws, glue, and a 6"x 9" rectangle of blue construction paper and demonstrated ways to bend or curl the straws. I asked them to create a tree using the same guidelines that we used for their tree drwaings. During our third week on this project we added marker and collage materials to make magical tree collages. Our results are below. I think that they are truly magical!



We loved adding buttons. Many of thewhite ones were colored with Sharpie markers before being glued on.

This this group tried tissue paper as well.