I feel like this craft has so many possibilities. With a classroom, you could make a huge tree with branches and leaves for each child. Another thing that came to mind was expanding on this idea to include "roots" for a genealogy lesson. You could add photos of relatives and ancestors with *their* favorite things. Maybe we'll do that someday.
Urban home-schooling a 4-year-old with an emphasis on play, art activities, nature, and local field trips.
Monday, October 7, 2013
The "Me Tree"
We had so much fun home (really un-) schooling last year, that we decided to do it again! A common theme in many schools at the start of the school year is "All About Me." Mini egotists that they are, young children love doing projects about themselves! It's also a fun way to record what they are like at a particular age, and for comparison at the end of the year, as well as future years. One of our projects for September was a "Me Tree." I was inspired by a lovely drawing that Ocean did, which was a tracing of her hand with tiny leaves decorating the fingers. We traced her hands and arms to make the trunk and branches of the tree, which I hot-glued (alas, you can tell I'm no Martha Stewart with the glue gun!) to a piece of (slightly warped) cardboard from the recycle box. I then cut out leaves, on which Ocean wrote out things that she loves right now, at five-and-a-half (unicorns, dogs, books, etc.). We glued them on along with some pictures of favorite things from magazines. She completed the project with a self-portrait. Maybe we'll put this aside and make another for comparison at the end of the school year, to see how she's grown and changed.
I feel like this craft has so many possibilities. With a classroom, you could make a huge tree with branches and leaves for each child. Another thing that came to mind was expanding on this idea to include "roots" for a genealogy lesson. You could add photos of relatives and ancestors with *their* favorite things. Maybe we'll do that someday.
I feel like this craft has so many possibilities. With a classroom, you could make a huge tree with branches and leaves for each child. Another thing that came to mind was expanding on this idea to include "roots" for a genealogy lesson. You could add photos of relatives and ancestors with *their* favorite things. Maybe we'll do that someday.
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I love it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, just like Ocean :)
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