A brief discussion takes place around the characteristics of evergreen and deciduous trees. As well as how wildlife uses evergreen trees and how Native Americans and the Pioneers could have used them for shelter as well as building houses.

Students are given 4 or 5 rectangles of green paper and shown how to find the center of one side by folding it. They then cut 4 or 5 green triangles, each one slightly larger than the next. (Alternately, students could paint a paper with various green tones and cut their triangles from that when it's dry.)

The triangles are glued together and a brown rectangle is glued to the bottom as a trunk.

Black paint is scraped on with wood tools to provide variety and each tree is glued to a white background paper. When the glue and paint is dry the trees are cut out leaving a white edge around the tree.

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