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Academics: Art

R.J. and Emma working on their "ornaments" for their Christmas tree.

First Grade Christmas Trees

by Rita Heithoff

December 12, 2007

The First Grade Art class has been busy creating Christmas trees. They began by practicing how to draw a tree with branches going around the tree as opposed to a "cookie cutter" design. They drew their trees on green construction paper with a dark green crayon. After they completed the drawing they cut out their tree and glued it to a red piece of paper.

The First Grade focused on drawing a tree with branches going around, like a real tree instead of a cookie cutter design

The students were given a variety of paper punches and colored paper to make ornaments for their trees. They could choose a round punch, two sizes of stars, a bow, a music note or any combination of. After punching out their ornaments the first grade glued them to their tree with a glue stick. A large, yellow star at the top of the tree completed the look. The last step was to take a red crayon and draw a floor under the tree.

Click on the slideshow to see the First Graders proudly displaying their work.

First Grade Christmas Trees