Craft a 3D Snowy Pine Scene

       “The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry." Isaiah 55:10

        This fun little Christmas scene may be partially assembled prior to painting if you want to use it in a larger Sunday school class. Children from four to nine will enjoy painting their pine cone fir trees on the first Sunday. Let it the paint dry for a week so that on a second Sunday, students may decorate their trees with snowy cotton, glitter, and sculpt a cute, snow-white, woodland critter to sit beside each pine cone tree on top of the wooden base.

Finished snow scene.

Supply List for One Project:

• a pine cone
• hammer and nail
• small wooden block
• green and white acrylic paints
• two cotton balls
• white glitter
• white air dry clay for a winter snow-bunny, fox or bear
• hot glue and hot glue gun
• white school glue

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Pre-cut a hole through the center of a wooden block base either using a drill or by hammering one with a nail.
2. Hot glue the bottom tip of a pine cone into the hole.
3. Paint the pine cone tree green and the wooden block base white.
4. After the paint has dried thoroughly, trim the tips with glitter and fluffy cotton to look like snow. Apply this with white school glue.
5. Shape little mini snowmen, birds or Winter white, furry creatures using the air dry clay. Glue these to the wooden base. I shaped a small snow bunny for this scene.
   
6. Sprinkle the wooden base with white glue and glitter to make it look like it's covered with fresh fallen snow.

Left, a tin basket full of pine cones and a mounted pine cone that has been painted green.
Right, is the cone with added white cotton and a toothpick that has been mounted
into the wooden block. This step is optional, it will merely secure the snow bunny in
place. I will glue my beaded bunny parts through it after these have dried.

Above you can see the little shapes that students will need to make for
 a snow bunny. There are holes through the bottom two pieces to
secure these over the wooden toothpick.

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