A Tree for Each Season

A Tree for All Seasons
Art/Science When teaching about the four seasons, make this book. Cut a tree shape from four sheets of brown construction paper. These will be the book's pages. Fold all four pages down the center and glue them back to back so the book has eight pages. The trees should be decorated appropriately for each season with cut-out or painted leaves of various colors. On the trunk, students can write something about each of the seasons. They may also draw or attach seasonal pictures on the corresponding pages of the book.

Fall Fabric Scrap Trees
Art Use stiff 9" X 12" paper for a background. Cut the tree trunk and some branches from brown construction paper. Lightly shade the sky with blue chalk or Cray-Pas®. Add dark lines onto the trunk to look like bark. Provide a basket of small fabric scraps for students to glue on as pieces of the fall tree's crown of leaves.

Fall Foliage Trees
Art Tree trunks cut from corrugated brown paper can simulate the texture of bark. Students glue a trunk on background paper of white, black or blue. Young students can paint leaves onto their trees with brushes or fingers. Older students can use ripped paper or cut out leaves of more realistic shapes.

School's begun and things are looking up. Let's look at trees – all kinds of trees – this month. Teaching Day-by-Day: Trees has 30 tree activities.