Cherry Blossom Painting

What You Do:

1. Help your child cut the toilet paper roll into loops, each approximately ½ an inch tall. 
2. Have her use these loops to create oblong cat’s eye shapes. 
3. Lay out a sheet of waxed paper to protect the work surface.
4. Have your child glue the cat’s eye shapes together to form the petals of a cherry blossom flower. 
5. Help her tape together sheets of paper to make her Japanese scroll.
6. Let her paint a black branch across this scroll.  It shouldn’t be too complicated because she wants to leave plenty of space for the flowers.
7. While the black paint dries, have her squeeze a pool of red or pink tempra paint onto the wax paper.  
8. Spread it out with the brush so that it is slightly bigger than the flower she has made.
9. She should place the flower in the pink or red paint as if it was a stamp pad, inking the flower with paint.
10. Have her apply the painted side of the flower to the paper. 
11. Help her continue to add flowers to her scroll until the entire branch is filled.
12. Create a gallery of tree branch art.  What would the branch look like during the different seasons of the year.