I made a tree book with my class. This was so fun and at the end, when we were done, we showed our families and they loved it. It was fin doing all these new things and learning from a real artist! These are the steps on how to make thus awesome book:

1. Screen Printing: Screen Printing is where we took a screen and put it over a piece of paper. The screen has text on it so when we rolled over it with the paint roller it printed down words on to the cardboard. This process was so fun. We could put the screen anyway we wanted to.
2. Paper Folding: This was a pretty boring step because all we did was fold a really thick piece of paper. We had different styles. For example, hamburger is when you fold the paper in half and it has a long bottom and a short side. Then we had hot dog style. This is the opposite and the bottom was short and the sides were tall.
3. Akua Ink Art: This has a very weird name. But, in this process we put a plant on a type of paper. Then, we rolled our paint roller on some jelly looking stuff. Lastly, we would rolled the painted paint roller over our plant and piece of paper. It turned out so cool.
4. Collage: This step was the funnest. We could glue on pieces of paper to our tree books and make it look like a jungle. I added rain drops and a monkey to mine. I also added trees in my forest to make it look like an actual forest.
5. Pockets: This step all we did was glue on our pockets, which were tiny envelopes. We got to camouflage them with some of our Akua Ink Art. I liked the camouflaging part the most.
6. Salute To My Roots: This was also so fun. We got to write about people in our lives that made us better or who influenced us. I wrote about my parents because I think that they have changed my life and raised me to be a good person.
7. Life List: This was also so fun. I wrote a list of all the things I want to accomplish in my entire life. I will check off everything that I do. One of the things I wrote on my Life List was that I want to find the cure for Cancer. It will probably not happen but I can try. You can put anything on the list.
8. When This Is Over Poem: This poem had two parts. The first part was about what I will never take for granted ever again after COVID-19 is over. I wrote things like ‘I will never ever take for granted seeing my friends faces or feeling the breeze on my face at the beach’. The second part was things we Couldn’t have done during COVID-19.
9. My Wish: This was one or two wishes that you have. One of the wishes I wrote were ‘I wish that I can help someone that really needs help’.
10. Wishtree by Katherine Applegate: This book is so interesting. It has taught me so many things about life that I never even realized. Right now in the book Red (a tree) and Bongo (a crow) are trying to make to humans, Samar and Stephen, friends. They are failing right now. I think at the end of the book they are going to become friends with each other.
11. Frank Gallery: Go check out all these pieces of art. All of them are so beautiful. https://www.frankisart.com

I want to thank Peg Gignoux for helping us with all of our art. Go check out what she makes here: https://gignouxart.com/