Supplies Used: Adhesive, Chipboard or poster board, Construction and copy paper, Embroidery thread, Pencil, Photos, Ruler, Scissors
The teacher will die-cut the materials for student use prior to the lesson.
- Take photos of students in varying poses standing, sitting or resting, or have students bring in photos of their family.
- Die-cut two Tree, Bare shapes from chipboard or poster board and one Tree, Bare shape from construction paper.
- With a pencil and a ruler, mark a line down the center of the construction paper tree trunk. Then make a mark horizontally half way down the vertical line on the tree trunk, and cut on the vertical line.
- Place one half of the construction paper tree on one cardstock tree. Make a pencil line down from the horizontal mark to the bottom of the tree trunk.
- Cut along the line, and then cut a second line right next to the first line making a skinny slit.
- Place the other construction paper tree on the other cardstock tree, and draw a line up from the horizontal mark to the top of the tree trunk.
- Cut along the line, and then cut a second line right next to the first line making a skinny slit.
- Slide the two cardstock trees together (Main Photo).
- Place adhesive on the back of a photo, holding it up to the light to determine where the body in the photo is positioned.
- Adhere the photo to a piece of colored copy paper, and cut around the body.
- Repeat steps 9 and 10 for all student or family photos.
- Use embroidery thread to make a loop for the photos that hang on the assembled tree (Main Photo).
- Students will enjoy using the photos in this tree-mendous way!