"Speaker for the Trees"

This activity was called Speaker for the Trees. We were introduced to the activity by watching a clip from the movie "Lorax" and looking at how different the trees are from normal trees. Each and every tree is unique and not the same, just like each and every person. After looking at different trees, we got to create our very own trees. One design was with warm colors, and the other was created with cool colors. We also had to create a distant landscape design with trees, and also a close up of a tree. We created these using black or white paper and also using oil pastels, crayons, and glitter pens. An extension activity you could do with this project is to incorporate it into language arts by creating a design that would represent a scene in a book that they were reading. They would be able to create a scene that is unique and their own.