Winter Village

Grade: Kindergarten
Theme: Communities
Focus on the letter "S" and shapes (square, triangle, and rectangle)

Materials: brown paper, precut squares, rectangles, and triangles in a variety of sizes and colors, glue, pencil, scissors, white drawing paper. precut green triangles with brown scraps

Step 1: with the brown paper horizontal, draw a wavy line that dips down then up.
Step 2: below the wavy line draw it again but try to make the left side closer to the start line and the right side farther away.
Step 3: cut on the lines drawn, this will look like the letter "S" when rotated and it will transform into the path in your village.
Step 4: Talk about when you look down the street how the farther away the street the smaller it gets.
step 5: glue the "S" to the white paper.
Step 6: each student should have 3 squares, rectangles, and triangles (or roof shape).  Each of the shapes should be small, medium, and large.  Piece them together to form 3 different houses.  Glue them to the paper, smallest in the back and largest in the front.
Step 7: give each student 1 large green triangle, 1 medium green triangle, and 2 small green triangles.  These will become the trees in your village.

once everything is glued down add any details and you are finished.