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Christmas Tree Heart Mosaics

Christmas is a month away, but what better way to get into the holiday spirit than to build your own tree on paper using our R15367 Heart Mosaics!

Age: 4+

Duration: 10 minutes

Learning Objectives: Layer multiple pieces together. Identify biggest to smallest and coordinate similar colors. Make associations between the shapes in order to create a larger picture. Develop fine motor skills through sorting, placing and gluing the pieces. Discuss triangles as a geometric shape and use

You’ll Need:

• R15367 Heart Mosaics

• R22052 Double Color Card Sheets

• Glue

This is an easy project to do, but makes a great activity for students as they are waiting to transition between class periods or as a thematic holiday art project.

This activity requires very little preparation; all you need are materials that you may already have in your classroom! Give each group of students a pile of Heart Mosaics to sort through. Although we’ve chosen a purple background for our Christmas tree, you can use any color from the Double Color Card Sheets set as a backing to your designs.

This step allows you to talk a little bit about the basic structure of a Christmas tree. It isn’t just lights and decorations. The shape of the tree is important. Traditionally, most Christmas trees should have the basic shape of a triangle, which is what we are going to make first with our Heart Mosaics.

Ask your students to separate their Heart Mosaics into like colors of green. We have several different colors of green to choose from, so all students will get a chance to make trees.

Start with the largest Heart Mosaic pieces first. Locate the largest pieces and place them upside down at the bottom of the card sheet. Make a wide base.

Add a few more upside-down pieces to the base, moving upward. Angle the ends of the Heart Mosaics inwards so that the shape of the overall tree takes on a triangular form.

Keep adding and angling the smaller Heart Mosaics inwards as you progress to the top. Choose two small and skinny Heart Mosaics to form the peak of the tree.

Now it’s time to decorate. Select several smaller Heart Mosaics to form the ornaments as pops of color. Turn the Heart Mosaics right side up and place them on top of the green tree.

Decorate the tree just as you would at home! Space out the ornaments in an even, balanced way.

Finally, top your Christmas tree with a bright yellow Heart Mosaic. Glue down all the pieces. Students can take their Christmas trees home or tack them up on a board as part of a Christmas display!

Check out another great project with Heart Mosaics:

• Make a beautiful tree of hearts for Valentine’s Day cards, for a birthday or just to show someone how much you love them!

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Posted on November 26, 2014February 12, 2020 by Raman

2 Flowers Learn use our Heart Mosaics!

What’s a colorful and beautiful paper mosaic set that you can use for just about any project? Our R15367 Heart Mosaics! To see what kinds of projects you can do with the Heart Mosaics, visit the post at 2 Flowers Learn in the links below!

The post is entitled, “More fun with Heart Mosaics” and was posted on March 6, 2014. View the full post here!

The post demonstrates just how versatile these mosaics are. Use your imagination to come up with a variety of different images by overlaying the mosaics at different angles.

The mosaics also come in several shapes and sizes so you can create more things! View the project idea guide here for more information.

In addition, you can use our artwork guide to make your own characters from combining the Heart Mosaics. Here are a few images of what you can make!

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See more ideas and step-by-step instructions here!

Thanks to Chris @ 2 Flowers Learn for the post!

Image and original post © 2 Flowers Learn.

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Posted on May 16, 2014February 12, 2020 by Raman

Valentine’s Day Tree

Create your own Valentine’s Day artwork with Heart Mosaics! Use a tracing of your hand to form the tree trunk and branches, then fill in the gaps with Heart Mosaic leaves. Follow the complete tutorial below!

Age: 4+

Duration: 10-15 minutes

You’ll Need:

• R15367 Heart Mosaics

• R15233 Skin Tone Craft Paper

• Scissors

• Glue

• Pencil

This is a fun and simple craft to make with basic materials. You could even adapt the project artwork and use it to create the front cover of a large-sized Valentine’s Day card!

You can use any color of Skintone Paper to make your handprint tree. For this project, I used a specific color of Heart Mosaic leaves to fill in the tree gaps, but your students can use whichever colors they like best.

Turn the Skintone Paper vertically facing you and place your hand in the center of the page. Trace the outline of your hand with a pencil.

Cut out the traced outline. This will form the base of the tree (the tree trunk and branches).

Next, paste your handprint tree onto a sheet of white paper. Align the bottom edge of the handprint with the bottom edge of the paper.

You can start laying out the Heart Mosaic leaves around the “branches” of the handprint. Angle the direction of the Heart Mosaics outwards from the center handprint.

Once you have worked out the colors of your Heart Mosaic leaves, or where you want to place them on the page, start pasting them down.

Overlap various sizes of Heart Mosaics to get a fuller look for your tree.

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Posted on January 29, 2014February 12, 2020 by Raman

Craft Spotlight: Heart Mosaics

Available in a multitude of colors, sizes and designs, these Heart Mosaics will give your students’ projects a ‘lovely’ pop of personality! Watch a video at the cut to see the leafy tree art project we made with the Heart Mosaics!

Since Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, we’ve got several projects using the R15367 Heart Mosaics coming right up! Stay tuned for some more great ideas.

The package of Heart Mosaics contains over 2000 pieces to use. Glue down the Heart Mosaics as you would with regular mosaics. The Heart Mosaics guide is chockful of project ideas that will entertain your students. Assemble various sizes of Heart Mosaics together to make animals such as a rooster, seal, lion, peacock, bumblebee, fish, bird, dolphin, crab and more!

View the PDF guide HERE for more project ideas!

The best way to use the mosaics is to first design a project. Illustrate your basic artwork on a sheet of paper. Use the Heart Mosaics to fill the image in with color. You can also incorporate the shapes of the hearts into your illustration.

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In the video below, you can make your own handprint tree using the Heart Mosaics as leaves!

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Posted on January 27, 2014February 12, 2020 by Raman