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Watercolour Winter Tree Card

Age: 5- 8-year-old
Theme: Winter, Christmas, Holidays
Time Required: 1 hour to 1.5 hours
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"Prototype Holiday Card" by Sinthia Cousineau
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Student Artwork (Age 7)

Educational Objectives

  • Create a Holiday card to give to a loved one.
  • Enhance reading and writing skills.
  • Identify and describe common symbols seen in Christmas  or holiday art.
  • Explore the different watercolour techniques
  • Explore ways to show others kindness and appreciation. 

Required Materials

  • Watercolour Paints
  • Paintbrushes
  • Salt
  • White Oil Pastel
  • Watercolour Paper
  • Printed Images of Holiday Themes and messages.
  • Small and Normal Painters Tape
  • Examples of Holiday Wishes 
  • Scissors
  • Thin ​Black Sharpie Marker
  • ​optional: golden acrylic paint, carbon paper, tracing pens, holiday themed stencils.
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Project Steps

Step 1: Fold watercolour Paper in half

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Step 2: Using Painters Tape, tape the borders of the paper to the table with the large tape. On the right side of the card, create a simple Christmas tree shape and on the left side of the card divide the space into several parts (use small painters' tape for both).

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Step 3: On the spaces outside the tree, draw simple snowflakes with a white oil pastel.

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Step 4: Add Cold Colours (blue, violet, green) using the watercolour paint.

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Step 5: Before the paint dries, sprinkle some salt over the paint. This will create a snowflake winter effect.

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Step 6:  Using the colours of your choice paint the inside triangles of the tree. I painted the tree with combinations of green and the trunk with combinations of brown.

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Some Ideas of How to Paint the Tree

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Step 7:  Wait for the paint to dry, then remove the painter's tape slowly. 

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Step 8 (Optional): Outline the tree with a thin black sharpie marker and paint a golden star.

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Step 9: Write a Holiday theme message inside the card and decorate it with winter themed illustrations for the inside border of the car.

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Students working on their Watercolour Cards

My Students with their Winter Cards

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  • Sinthia Cousineau
    • My Resume
    • Biographie, philosophy et methods
    • My Philosophy of Education
    • Artists that Inspire Me >
      • Claude Monet
      • Leonardo da Vinci
      • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
      • Georgia O’Keeffe
      • Vincent van Gogh
      • Michelangelo
      • Sandro Botticelli
      • Antoni Gaudí
  • Drawings
    • Illustrations >
      • Roman Ruins
    • Ships
    • Self-Portraits
    • Animal Drawings
    • Drawing from Observation
    • Cross Drawings
    • Skulls & Skeleton
    • Fictional Characters
    • Flowers
  • Ceramic Art
    • Functional Ceramics >
      • Bowls
      • Boxes
      • Mugs
      • Vases
      • Containers
    • Molds
    • Animals
    • Figures
    • Decals
    • Violins
    • Abstract & other
  • Paintings
    • Self-Portraits
    • Models
    • Imaginative Worlds
    • Saint-Joseph's Oratory
    • Still Lives & Nature
    • Ruins & Architecture
    • Painters that Inspire Me
  • Photography
    • Cyanotypes
    • Photograms
    • Pin-Hole Photography
    • Photoshop >
      • Photoshop Lesson: Recreation of Famous Artwork
      • Lesson: Double Exposure
    • Digital Photography >
      • Butterflies
      • Architecture & Cities
      • Ruins
      • Flowers >
        • Dandelion
        • Roses
        • Water Lily
      • Nature
      • Churches & Sanctuaries
      • Objects, Patterns, and other
      • Travel
    • Other Light-based Media Stuff >
      • Lesson: Scanner Self-Portrait
  • Art Therapy
    • Approaches to Art Therapy >
      • Psychodynamic Approach >
        • Spontaneous Expression: Scribble Drawing
    • Symbols in Art Therapy >
      • Art Response
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      • Emotions Wheel
      • Heart Map
      • Group Art Therapy >
        • Structural Family Therapy
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      • Lesson: Mandalas
      • Lesson Plan: Zentangle Cards
      • Lesson: Analogous Still Lives
      • Lesson: Eco Collage
      • Lesson: Clay Decorations
      • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Art & Children >
      • Painting Activities with Kids >
        • Pointillism Painting
        • Coffee Art
        • Monochromatic Painting
        • Lesson: The Color Wheel
        • Australian Dot Painting
        • Painting: Birch Tree
        • Pumpkin Painting
        • Acrylic Pouring
        • Painting: Rock Painting
        • Origami Inspired Painting
        • Watercolor Activities >
          • Watercolor Snowflake
          • Illustrated Watercolor Cards
          • Watercolour Winter Tree Cards
      • Drawing Activities with Kids >
        • Introductory Lesson
        • Tim Burton Portraits
        • Drawing from Autumn Still-lives
        • Grid Drawing Technique
        • Reptile Zentangle Drawing
        • Leaf Drawing Collage
        • Collaborative Doodle
        • Drawing: 3D Hands
        • Oil Pastel Dinosaur Landscape
        • Oil Pastel Night Sky
        • Scratch Art Drawing
        • Ancient Egypt Art
        • Lesson Unit: Fables & Stories
        • Lesson: Optical Illusions
        • Lesson Plan: Renaissance Invention Scroll
        • Lesson: La Bande Dessinée
        • Lesson: Alliteration Drawing
        • Lesson: Northwest Aboriginal Art
        • Lesson: Drawing Lines
        • Lesson: Paper Puppets
        • Drawing : Word Art
        • Drawing: Hidden Emotions Behind the Mask
      • Collage & other art Activities >
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        • Lesson: Warm & Cold Motion Figures
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        • Holiday Art
        • Lesson: Shibori
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