Arbour Week art activities for pre-schoolers

ARBOUR Week is celebrated from Tuesday to Monday, 1 to 7 September.

Get children involved in activities to encourage them to become aware of the environment and the need to preserve and protect it.

Decorating Spring Trees:

* Cut out a bare tree shape from brown construction paper.

* Have your child glue the shape onto a piece of white or blue paper.

* Cut out small flower shapes from tissue paper or construction paper.

* Have your child glue the flower blossoms on to their tree shape.

Tree Rubbings:

* Give your child pieces of white paper and some unwrapped crayons.

* Go for a walk and look for trees with interesting bark.

* Show your child how to lay their paper onto the bark of the tree, then rub across it with the side of their crayon, leaving a rubbing of the bark.

Tree Collage:

* Have your child look through old magazines and gardening catalogues to find pictures of trees.

* Then, have her tear or cut out the pictures.

* Give your child a piece of paper and some glue and have her glue the trees onto the paper, overlapping the trees and covering the paper.

Source: www.preschoolexpress.com