Winter Landscape Art Project

This is a multi-step project that makes a beautiful winter landscape. While we used the same colour palette, you could do various colours and make them look a bit like folk trees.

Time required: 2 blocks

• day 1 ~20-30 minutes

• day 2 ~30-40 minutes

Materials day 1:

• White paper or card stock

• Tissue paper cut into squares

• Foam brush

• White glue with a touch of water mixed in

Materials day 2:

• Black construction paper

• White paper

• Collage paper from day 1

• Scissors

• Glue

• Pencil

• Sharpie

• Ruler

• White paint & cotton buds OR white pastel

Teacher prep:

Cut tissue paper into squares. I do this with the big paper cutter and it goes quickly.

Right before starting, you’ll need to mix up a glue mixture. Mostly glue with just a tiny bit of water to thin it out.

Steps day 1:

• Using your sponge brush, apply a thin layer of the glue mixture onto a small section of your paper/card stock.

• Now lay pieces of tissue paper onto the paper/card stock one at a time. They can overlap, but we don’t want thick sections. Go slow, if you go too fast you’ll end up ripping the paper.

• Dip your sponge brush back into the glue mixture and seal your pieces down. The tissue paper should look shiny.

• Now continue onto another section, glue mixture on card stock first, then apply tissue paper, then seal it.

• Continue until the background is fully filled.

• Set aside to dry. You’ll probably need to press these under heavy books once dry as they’ll curl up and we’ll want them flat for the next step.

Steps day 2:

• Turn the tissue paper page upside down and draw triangles of various sizes using your pencil and ruler.

• Cut the triangles out.

• Cut some snow for the bottom of the sheet. Glue this down on the black construction paper.

• Glue your trees along the snow.

• Optionally, add some details to the trees with a Sharpie.

• Make some snowflakes using white acrylic paint and a cotton bud or a white pastel.