Animal Classification

Materials

nature magazines and coloring books

child-safe scissors

paper

glue

Instructions

1. Read the book Have You Seen Trees? by Joanne Oppenheim to the
children. Tell them that they will make their own trees.
2. Prepare cotton swabs to act as dot painters by taping five cotton swabs
together in the middle.
3. Place each color of paint in a separate meat tray. Put thin paintbrushes
next to the tray of brown paint.
4. Give each child a piece of construction paper. Encourage the children to
paint a tree trunk with branches with brown paint.
5. Next, encourage the children to dip the cotton swabs into the paints and
dot all around their branches to create a beautiful display of fall foliage.
6. Allow the paintings to dry, and display these beautiful trees.