Corrugated Cardboard Birch Trees

Spread the love

If you are an Amazon lover like I am, you probably have a house full of cardboard. My daughter uses all of our boxes to build boats and spaceships and other assorted fun and imaginative things. Cardboard is great for these kinds of projects, but it is also an awesome material for mixed media type art projects like these corrugated cardboard birch trees. The ridges in the cardboard add a beautiful texture to this birch tree project.

Corrugated Cardboard Birch Trees. Mixed media art for the kids. Winter arts and crafts
*The Pinterested Parent is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. In addition, text and image links in this post may be affiliate/referral links, which means we may be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking through these particular links*  See full disclosure policy.

What you will need:

Cardboard

Watercolor paper

watercolors""” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow noreferrer noopener” aria-label=”Watercolors (opens in a new tab)”>Watercolors

Acrylic paint

Glue

Directions:

Cut a section of cardboard close to the same height of your watercolor paper. Grab an edge of the cardboard and carefully pull off the top layer to reveal the ridges in the cardboard.

The cardboard might pull back easily like this…

or it might be a little more stubborn and need some help. You can use a toothpick, wooden skewer, pencil or the back end of a paint brush to work through the ridges. You do not need to expose all of the corrugation, so do not stress too much about it being perfect.

Paint the cardboard on the corrugated side with white acrylic paint. Set it aside to dry.

Use watercolor paint to paint your backdrop. Since the cold weather is coming, we are making a wintery background. Let the paper dry completely. You can use a hair dryer if you are impatient like me.

Cut the cardboard in strips going against the ridges.

Trim some of the pieces to make different lengths. Use a glue stick or school glue to glue on the strips of cardboard onto your painted paper. Place some on straight, some on a slant. Cut smaller strips and add a couple small branches off of your tree trunks..

When you are done use black paint or even a Sharpie to draw in black lines on your tree trunks and branches.

Corrugated Cardboard Birch Trees. Mixed media art for the kids. Winter arts and crafts

And then Voila!! There you have a beautiful birch tree scene. We hope you enjoyed this project.

For more corrugated cardboard projects visit us here.

Corrugated Cardboard Birch Trees. Mixed media art for the kids. Winter arts and crafts

Thank you as always for stopping by and don’t forget to visit our Facebook page.

Author

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.