Tree activities

Kim McLeod | The Best Ideas for Kids on Instagram: "Q-TIP PAINTED HANDPRINT TREES 🌳 ✋ Follow me @bestideasforkids for more fun activities for kids! 🦋 This one is so simple to do and I love the final result! Just tie some q-tips together with an elastic. Dip into paint and stamp onto paper. I added a handprint for the tree trunk before I started stamping. To paint in between the branches use 1 q tip and stamp to fill the space or let kids stamp overtop the handprint (both will look great!)…

Learn how to integrate art into your plant science activities by having students make chlorophyll paintings. Similar to leaf rubbings, this simple science based art project is a fun and creative extension for teaching kids about photosynthesis.

Craft a beautiful tree from your nature treasures! Glue leaves, flowers and twigs onto your template to create a unique nature tree.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

This week started out with another cool box creation! My neighbors brought me another box, and the cardboard corner pieces begged to become a ball track. We rolled ping pong balls (yes, I rolled some too,) whenever the box was available. I finally retired the bean box midweek, when all the beans were spread all over the floor. Twenty-one ping pong balls are easier to pick up than 3000 beans! One of the things I wanted to include this week was more science. We started learning about trees by…

Learning about trees was a fun activity for my first grade students this week! We learned about the importance of trees on our environment and all the things that we get from trees.

Learn how our tree inquiry began with the question, "Are Trees Alive?" and led us to take a tree walk and investigate tree parts.

Here's an awesome collection of The Giving Tree activities and crafts to use at home and in the classroom based on the book by Shel Silverstein.

OBJECTIVE Learn how a tree uses it's roots to drink and move water up to the leaves. BOOK What Do Roots Do? by Kathleen V. Kudlinski EXPERIMENT Investigate how roots "drink" by dipping the edge of a piece of paper towel into water (food coloring optional). I recomned food coloring because it will help you see the ater climb. The water will climb up the paper towel. Record what you did using this simple Science Lab Recording Sheet. ART Create roots by cutting and gluing yarn. Tree Roots…