Mushroom Forests

Kindergarten (5K) and first grade students created mushroom forests using multiple mediums (materials). 

The first step was to paint a brown piece of paper and a green piece of paper. They used paint combs to make the brown tree trunks, and sponges to paint the green grass and tree tops. This was messy and fun and two two papers turned out the same! Some of the classes (depending on the weather) got to go outside and look at tree trunks to explore the different bark textures.

Next, they cut out their tree trunks, grass and tree tops. They glued these all onto a piece of background paper. 

Finally, they created mushrooms using red and white model magic modeling clay and placed their mushrooms onto the forests pictures.

These can be found hanging in and around the classrooms at school as we welcome spring's return!