This was a fun, quick lesson (it actually only took about 15-20 minutes to make!), and a great way to wrap up the week before the holiday break!!!
Students used a tree tracer from cardboard to trace a tree on a sheet of 9×12″ 80# drawing paper.
They could design their trees anyway they wanted with markers.
Then on a separate sheet of 9×12″ black construction paper, they traced the tree again using pencil. White chalk pastel was then used to draw a thick line along the inside of their tree line.
Kids then smudged the white chalk going away from the tree, in one direction, with their finger to make a glowing effect.
Students then cut out their trees, glued the back of it with a glue stick, and glued down within their glowing lines on their black paper.
Kids had a lot of fun with this mini-lesson, and wanted to make more!
Gotta give a shout out to mrsallainart and 2art.chambers (Two awesome art teachers on Instagram) who had the idea first! Thanks for the idea!