5 WINTER TREE ART LESSONS

WINTER TREES!!!! Here are 5 WINTER TREE art lessons with multiple levels of instruction. Winter art lessons to teach in a classroom, at home, or for remote learning. Any art medium can be used to add in color: paints, color pencil, crayon, pastel.

MIXED MEDIA BIRCH TREES grade 2-5
WATERCOLOR WINTER TREES grade K-5
SNOWY EVERGREEN PAINTING grade 2-5
SNOWY TREES grade K-2
CARDINAL IN THE SNOW grade 2-5

MIXED MEDIA BIRCH TREES

These stunning birch trees are created with a beautifully blended pastel background and a painted birch tree trunk, cut out and glued on.

Students draw tree trunks and use a cardboard scrap to scrape black paint across the trunk, to create the texture of the birch tree.

Let the paint is dry on the birch trees. On a new sheet of paper, color in with 2 or 3 colors of pastels. I use CRAYOLA DRAWING CHALK.

Cut out 1 or 2 of the birch tree trunks, and glue it on to the pastel background. Use a brush to paint in black branches from the tree trunk.

Materials for MIXED MEDIA BIRCH TREES:

2 sheets of painting paper, pencil & eraser, CRAYOLA DRAWING CHALK or PASTELS, scissors, glue, black acrylic or tempera, cardboard scraps, paper plate, thin paintbrush

WATERCOLOR WINTER TREES

Blended watercolor skies and simply painted trees. These paintings are a fun project to add glitter paint on the snow, treetops, and snowflakes in the sky.

Liquid watercolors work great for this project, to create blended colors in the sky.

Materials for WATERCOLOR WINTER TREES:

Watercolor paper, Liquid watercolors, paintbrush, black paint, glitter paint (optional)

SNOWY EVERGREEN PAINTING

Snowy Evergreen Paintings are layers of painted papers to create a snowy hill with this sweet little evergreen tree.

Paint 1/2 sheet of painting paper with turquoise and white paint in wavy, blended lines for the snow. Paint a tree trunk on the other half of the paper. Once the paint dries, cut wavy strips from the turquoise and white painted paper and cut out the tree trunk.

Glue the snowy strips of paper to the bottom of a black cardstock paper. Glue on the tree trunk (tuck it a bit into the snow hills.

Paint layers of greens to form a tree shape from the trunk of the tree. Use the backend of the paintbrush to add in snow, in the sky, over the tree and ground.

Materials for SNOWY EVERGREEN PAINTING:

Black card stock, painting paper, scissors, glue, paintbrush, acrylic or tempera paint- white, turquoise, brown and green (2 shades)

SNOWY TREES

Snowy trees are for K-2. A fun lesson in mixing paint and creating texture.

Blue Card Stock creates a background, so only the ground and trees need to be painted.

Materials for SNOWY TREES PAINTING:

Blue card stock, paintbrush, acrylic or tempera paint- white, turquoise, brown and green (2 shades)

CARDINAL IN THE SNOW

This cardinal and birch tree winter painting, can be done on canvas as a holiday gift or for a lovely winter display. Always turns out beautiful.

Using acrylic paint. Paint a white ground and any shade of blue or turquoise in the sky. Paint in gray trees and a white streak on one side of the tree to create a light side. Use the sky color to paint in shadows from the bottom of each tree trunk.

I have students use their finger, with a dot of red paint to make the cardinal body and head. Use the back of the brush to make dots of snow in the sky. Paint a shadow under the cardinal. Paint an orange beak. Add on a black patch on the face and legs.