Warm & Cool Landscapes



This lesson came about because I wanted a break from the Warm & Cool Swirling Leaves project I normally do with my first graders. You can hop on over to that post and get the basics of the project. After finishing Mod-Podging our cool backgrounds, we added the warm trees on top and made stylized branches with permanent marker. I think they turned out great! 










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