Terrific Tree Paper Braided Bookmarks

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Make a woven wood Bookmark! Great for teaching children to follow instructions and use fine motor skills in folding.

Age: 5+

Duration: 10 minutes

Learning Objectives: Cut and fold paper to encourage fine motor skill development. Create bookmarks for literacy. Incorporate tree facts into activity; Terrific Tree Paper features an image of tree bark on the front and wood grain on the back. Investigate different types of trees through the provided prints. Create art from nature.

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You’ll Need:

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Cut Terrific Tree Paper into ½” x 11” strips.

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Glue two strips together at the corner.

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Glue two more strips on top the first strips but directly underneath.

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Fold each strip, in order from left to right, across the others.

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Keep folding until you near the end of the strips.

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Glue the ends together and trim the excess to form the final angle.

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Extra tip: Alternate the pattern by making the first two strips the grain side of the wood and the second two strips the bark side.

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Terrific Tree Paper

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Incorporate nature into your crafts with R15294 Terrific Tree Paper!

Eight types of wood are included in each package: Birch, Cedar, Cherry, Maple, Oak, Pecan, Pine, and Walnut. One side of each piece of paper features the bark pattern of the tree, while the reverse side features the corresponding wood grain pattern.

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Here are a few interesting ways to use Terrific Tree Paper:

• Cut the paper into mosaics for nature-themed crafts or collage!

• Spice up paintings and drawings! Trace a tree onto Terrific Tree Paper, then cut it out and paste it into a drawing or painting for a different, naturalistic effect (for an even more realistic look use Crafty Leaves on the tree’s crown)!

• Create a 3-D classroom forest. Roll Terrific Tree Paper around old toilet paper or paper towel tubes and cut the tubes to make various tree heights. Then cut leaves out of green paper or use Roylco’s Botanical Cuts to create a full tree crown.

Stay tuned this week for a special post featuring this product!

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Paper Trees

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This is our first post about our newest product−R15294 Terrific Tree Paper! The tree paper can be used to explore natural botany with its unique prints of tree bark and wood grain on either side.

Age: 4+

Duration: 10-15 minutes

Learning Objectives: Learn about natural botany through the shape and construction of the trees. Create a forest for diorama or display projects. Talk about the different types of wood barks and wood grains printed on the sheets. Identify the different species of trees to go along with the printed sheets.

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You’ll Need:

R15294 Terrific Tree Craft Paper

R15656 Autumn Leaves Paper Bits

• Tape

• Glue

• Scissors

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Take a sheet of Terrific Tree Paper.

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Fold the right side of the paper in towards the halfway mark on the sheet.

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Fold the left side of the paper 1/8 across the length of the paper.

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Unfold the flaps. Cut slits across the paper up to the fold lines on either side. The slits can be about 1″ to 2″ apart.

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Roll the long side of the flat sheet into a cylinder, which will form the tree, and tape the sides together. Fold out the shorter tabs at the bottom of the tree.

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Curl down the longer tabs at the top of the tree and tape the Autumn Leaves Paper Bits to the ends of the tabs.

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This is what the tree looks like when the branches have been fully decorated with leaves.

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Combine every student’s tree project together to make a beautiful forest for a nature display, like this one!

You can incorporate this craft into a lesson about natural sciences and teach your students about the importance of plants and the environment. Among other activities, try making crafts such as:

A paper mask using found or paper leaves, like our R15335 Spring and Autumn Leaves

Wreaths made from leaves, nuts, pinecones and other natural objects, with details from our R15334 Crafty Leaves

• Make animals from natural objects! Combine the shapes together to make a fish, bird, bunny and more!

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