Twisty Trees lesson by Mrs. Dawn Sahli

In this lesson we talked about 2D and 3D design. Students create a 2D scene using tagboard, oil pastels and watercolor. For the 3D tree they used brown paper lunch bags and white paint as well as a smaller bag of sand. The sand is used to weight the tree down. First students came up with ideas for their scene. Once they had the ideas for the scene, then they moved on to the tagboard and draw the winter scene with oil pastels so that they would wax resist the watercolor. Students were required to have a Wintergreen tree and then at least one wintery item.  Then they moved onto their 3D tree. student cut strips in the opening of the brown bag. They were required to cut at least 10 strips and or branches. Once their strips are cut then they open the bag and put the sand in the bottom of the bag. Holding the base students were asked to twist the bag to create the trunk of the tree. Once that was done students moved on to twist the branches of the tree. Once the tree was complete the tree was painted with white paint to represent snow.
As far as extension activities you could and more 3D snow with gluing cotton balls on the bottom of the scene. You could also choose any season and use this to make that season. With 2D and 3D you can used this in math by measuring 2D and 3D objects as well.