Winter Tree Painting Craft For Kids

The Winter Tree Painting Craft is a fun winter painting that you can do with kids. You only need a few simple items to make the tree and then paint the tree with snow.

You can make this for a great winter theme for kids in kindergarten and first grade. But you can also do this with older kids and make it more challenging.

You have a mix of watercolors and paint for this fun winter painting.

The Winter Tree Painting Craft is a great addition to the winter activities on the site.

Winter Tree Painting Craft

The winter tree painting is a mixed painting project for kids. It has painting with watercolors and painting with paint that makes a fun winter tree for kids.

You can do this with kids of different ages. You can see some suggestions below to changes in the directions

Winter Book to Read with the Winter Tree Painting

A great winter book we love is No Two Alike. It is a great way to look at different parts of things you see in winter and how they are similar, not completely alike. And that is what these tree paintings will be similar but not alike.

What we used to make the Winter Tree Painting

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How we made the Winter Tree Painting

You will see the steps below that we used to make the winter tree painting.

Before you start painting you can show kids a picture of a tree covered in snow. You can have them talk about the tree they are looking at.

Step 1: Paint the Paper with Water

You are going to start with painting the top part of the paper with a light layer of water. This helps you with painting during the next step.

Step 2: Painting the Sky Blue

Next you are going to paint a blue sky in the area that you just did the water painting. The water on the paper helps spread out the blue color easier on the watercolor paper.

You can do side to side strokes or up and down. Do what works best for the age group dong the art project. You can see we did up and down to start abut did some later side to side with our painting. And you can see that the color varies on the paper.

Step 3: Painting the Bare Tree

Next we used black to paint our tree on the paper. You can start at the bottom with the trunk of the tree. This is where all the branches will spread out from.

You can see we added branches to the trunk of the tree. These can be thick or thin. You can lets kids decide what the size of the branches should be.

Older kids might have smaller branches and younger kids might have smaller branches. But let them decide how many and how much of the branches their should be.

Step 4: Painting Snow on the Tree with Cotton Swabs

The final we did was to paint the snow on the branches of the tree. You can do all the branches some of the branches. It depends on how much snow you want to add.

And let kids be creative with their painting.

You can also add a little of the white painting on the white part of the paper to add a little texture to the white and base of the tree. And it is a fun way to use up extra paint as well.

Final look at our Winter Tree Painting

More Winter Crafts for Kids

Easy To Paint Watercolor Birch Trees are a super simple winter painting activities. You use watercolors and oil pastels to make an amazing picture. Plus you can also check out the book we read with it.

Winter Evergreen Tree Wreath Craft is a fun wreath for winter with green trees and then you use white paint to paint snow on the trees.

Make hands on and stem base Plank Board Snowflakes. A great hands-on building activity for kids.

Torn Paper Snowflake that kids can tear paper and line the snowflake. It is a super easy to make winter craft for kids and snowflakes are a great winter theme.

You can make a fun Snowflake Paper Plate Wreath. It is simple and easy to use. And then you have a great wreath for the winter!

Standing Model Magic Snowman is a great craft for kids to make who want a snowman but don’t want to go out in the snow or don’t have snow.

Check out all the fun Winter & Snow Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.