Sponge tree

(This idea came home from school.)

Materials:

• large sheet of paper
• brown marker
• optional: cut out of squirrel or chipmunk
• glue
• small sponges
• brown, orange, red and yellow paint

Instructions:

• have adult make tree and branches on paper with marker
• glue squirrel to "ground" at base of tree
• have child dip sponge in brown paint and colour squirrel
  
  
  
• have child dip sponges in red, orange and yellow paint and sponge leaves on the tree branches