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Need Help With A Tree Pls!!
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Miss C
Senior Member
brown paper
Use paper bags or some other sort of brown paper (rolls, etc.). Twist them and stick together with masking tape. When you're done with the "trunk", you may want to spray paint it brown. Do the same thing for the top, but twist the brown paper into spirals and paint them green, then attach them close together to the walls. Kind of like this:
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Use paper bags or some other sort of brown paper (rolls, etc.). Twist them and stick together with masking tape. When you're done with the "trunk", you may want to spray paint it brown. Do the same thing for the top, but twist the brown paper into spirals and paint them green, then attach them close together to the walls. Kind of like this:
OOOO
OOOOO
OOOOOO
OOOOOOO
LLLL
LLLL
LLLL
LLLL
LLLL
LLLL
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Marilyn B.
Guest
For a more 3-D look, try this.
I learned how to build very large three-dimensional objects while working on parade floats in college. For the base, we always used chicken wire over a stick frame or lumber armature. To make it stronger, you can also stuff the chicken wire solidly with newspapers, plastic bags, etc. You can use an old sheet dipped in plaster (work fast!) or papier mache paste for the trunk, and use smaller pieces of sheeting for the limbs. I think Miss C's idea would also work as a finish. Anyway, if you want a more 3-D look, I'd go with chicken wire or anything underneath that would act as an armature. For that matter, you could even use carpet tubes.
I learned how to build very large three-dimensional objects while working on parade floats in college. For the base, we always used chicken wire over a stick frame or lumber armature. To make it stronger, you can also stuff the chicken wire solidly with newspapers, plastic bags, etc. You can use an old sheet dipped in plaster (work fast!) or papier mache paste for the trunk, and use smaller pieces of sheeting for the limbs. I think Miss C's idea would also work as a finish. Anyway, if you want a more 3-D look, I'd go with chicken wire or anything underneath that would act as an armature. For that matter, you could even use carpet tubes.
Nat
Senior Member
palm trees
I made palm trees for my room...nothing easier and I got the idea here =o)
all you need are brown paper lunch bags, an empty roll of carpet (that I got for free from the carpet store, just told them I'm a teacher and it's for a class project. they were more than happy to help me out!), green bristol board for leaves.
cut the bottom of paper bags, put over the roll and scrunch down, repeat to the top.
do your leave and that's it. I put mine in flower pots, some I've read put them in coffee tins...wasn't "sturdy" enough for me though.
I have pictures but they are on my other computer...
good luck!
nat
I made palm trees for my room...nothing easier and I got the idea here =o)
all you need are brown paper lunch bags, an empty roll of carpet (that I got for free from the carpet store, just told them I'm a teacher and it's for a class project. they were more than happy to help me out!), green bristol board for leaves.
cut the bottom of paper bags, put over the roll and scrunch down, repeat to the top.
do your leave and that's it. I put mine in flower pots, some I've read put them in coffee tins...wasn't "sturdy" enough for me though.
I have pictures but they are on my other computer...
good luck!
nat
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Janell Forth
Guest
tree
I use insulation foam. Spray it in the corner or wherever you want it, and then after it firms up paint it with spray paint or whatever you would like. Truely looks real!
I use insulation foam. Spray it in the corner or wherever you want it, and then after it firms up paint it with spray paint or whatever you would like. Truely looks real!
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Gwen Bickel
Guest
second grade teaching since the beginning of
I had a garden theme in my classroom last year. The highlight of the garden was my "tree" in the corner of my room above some bookshelves. You would need brown bulletinboard paper, rolls of two different shades of green tissue paper that comes in rolls, and lots and lots of tacks, and a ladder that it tall enough for you to reach the ceiling comfortably. I took about 6 feet ( top of shelf to ceiling) of brown bulletin board paper( about 42" wide) and folded it like a fan longways. Then I opened it up and totally crunch it in a giant ball. When I opened it, it looked like a trunk. You could add details such as a hole with brown or black crayon. To make it 3-D, put trashbags filled with paper and tied shut and then taped together and taped to walls behind the trunk paper. I added a branch on each side by folding, crunching, and then twisting brown paper and attaching it to the wall. For the leaves I used two colors of green of the tissue paper that comes in a roll. I used about 3 rolls of each color. From the center of the tree from the corner I made a bunch of downward arches and attached to the ceiling (acoustical tiles) with tacks. From there, I curved around the top of the tree trunk with alternating greens in a half circle made out of continous arches outward kinda like spokes. When I had done about 3/4 of the tree, I then made several 1/2 circles of arches from wall to wall to make the outside of the tree leaves look rounded.
It took a couple of hours to really make it lush (had my teenagers help), and in the middle of the leaves was a flourescent light rectangle in the ceiling but it kinda looked like the sun shining through. Because it was tissue paper rolls instead of big pieces, there was plenty of air flow, so it wasn't a fire hazard and the ac sometimes made the loops sway like leaves in a nice breeze. By the time it was finished it was a tree leaved with about an 8 foot 1/2 circle. The kids and parents loved it and I received numerous compliments from other teachers, administrators, and visitors.
It stayed up all year long and took my teenager about 5 minutes to dismantle it! HAHA
Before I put it up I had put blue paper on both walls from corner out to length of tree. Under it i added the carsondellosa fence mentioned above.
CAUTION: WEAR SHOES AT ALL TIMES WHILE PUTTING IT UP. SOMETIMES YOU DROP A TACK OR TWENTY. DON'T WANT TO STEP OFF THE LADDER ONTO THOSE.
I had a garden theme in my classroom last year. The highlight of the garden was my "tree" in the corner of my room above some bookshelves. You would need brown bulletinboard paper, rolls of two different shades of green tissue paper that comes in rolls, and lots and lots of tacks, and a ladder that it tall enough for you to reach the ceiling comfortably. I took about 6 feet ( top of shelf to ceiling) of brown bulletin board paper( about 42" wide) and folded it like a fan longways. Then I opened it up and totally crunch it in a giant ball. When I opened it, it looked like a trunk. You could add details such as a hole with brown or black crayon. To make it 3-D, put trashbags filled with paper and tied shut and then taped together and taped to walls behind the trunk paper. I added a branch on each side by folding, crunching, and then twisting brown paper and attaching it to the wall. For the leaves I used two colors of green of the tissue paper that comes in a roll. I used about 3 rolls of each color. From the center of the tree from the corner I made a bunch of downward arches and attached to the ceiling (acoustical tiles) with tacks. From there, I curved around the top of the tree trunk with alternating greens in a half circle made out of continous arches outward kinda like spokes. When I had done about 3/4 of the tree, I then made several 1/2 circles of arches from wall to wall to make the outside of the tree leaves look rounded.
It took a couple of hours to really make it lush (had my teenagers help), and in the middle of the leaves was a flourescent light rectangle in the ceiling but it kinda looked like the sun shining through. Because it was tissue paper rolls instead of big pieces, there was plenty of air flow, so it wasn't a fire hazard and the ac sometimes made the loops sway like leaves in a nice breeze. By the time it was finished it was a tree leaved with about an 8 foot 1/2 circle. The kids and parents loved it and I received numerous compliments from other teachers, administrators, and visitors.
It stayed up all year long and took my teenager about 5 minutes to dismantle it! HAHA
Before I put it up I had put blue paper on both walls from corner out to length of tree. Under it i added the carsondellosa fence mentioned above.
CAUTION: WEAR SHOES AT ALL TIMES WHILE PUTTING IT UP. SOMETIMES YOU DROP A TACK OR TWENTY. DON'T WANT TO STEP OFF THE LADDER ONTO THOSE.