I just found out I never posted about making our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree. I had an activity planned for CH CH B B - but first of course we needed a tree. So at our art table one day I had the children work on paining a tree. I knew that having a large piece of poster board to paint was going to be fun and engaging on its own - but I wanted to add a few other elements to it.
So I had several shades of brown (for the trunk) and green (for the leaves) - so they could blend them and see the different shades. Then I taught them to add texture. For the trunk I gave them combs and showed them how to use the combs to make the trunk look bumpy and more realistic.
The kids loved combing the paint - and did it over, and over, and over.
Then for tree we used paper towels to "blotch" the paint to make it look puffy and full.
When the tree was done we hung it on the wall and acted out the ch ch b b book... several times.
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