Craft Ideas: Winter Landscape Art | Hands on Art & Craft - Class 1 PDF Download

Material Required

1. Newspaper
2. Green watercolors (We love liquid watercolors!)
3. Paintbrush
4. Sponge paintbrush
5. Light blue and white cardstock
6. Bubble wrap
7. White paint
8. Paper plate
9. Metallic markers
10. Scissors
11. Glue stick

Directions to be followed

1. Start by painting a section of newspaper with green liquid watercolors. The newsprint will be saturated at first but let it dry completely for several hours or overnight and it will harden back up.
   
2. Cut off a section of bubble wrap a little bigger than your light blue cardstock. Pour some white paint onto your paper plate and use a sponge paintbrush to paint the raised bubbles of the bubble wrap with the white paint.
3. Carefully place your blue cardstock down onto the painted bubble wrap. Rub your hands all over the paper to transfer the white paint from the bubbles onto your paper.
   Slowly peel off your blue cardstock from the bubble wrap to reveal the falling snow. Set your paper aside to dry completely.
4. Once your painted newspaper has finished drying, cut out about 12-15 triangles in in varying sizes. Each of the triangles will become a winter tree for your art project.
   
5. Use metallic markers to draw a trunk and limbs on each of your newspaper winter trees. We used silver, gold and copper to add extra color to our artwork.
6. Cut out two snowy hills from a sheet of white cardstock paper with the paper lengthwise. We used both the top and bottom flat edge of the paper as the bottoms of each of the hills. Ideally, you want one hill to be larger than the other to help add dimension to your winter landscape.
7. Glue your larger snowy hill at the bottom of your snowy blue cardstock.
8. Arrange several of your newspaper winter trees around the white hill. When you are satisfied with their placement, use a glue stick to glue each of the trees in place.
9. Glue your second snowy hill at the bottom of your artwork, on top of the other hill and trees. Glue the remainder of your newspaper trees on the snowy hill.