Tree Dot Painting

One fun Christmas craft we do is a tree dot painting.  I search online for a basic tree shape and enlarge it to fill the page.

Next, I draw diagonal lines back and forth on the tree to look like tree lights.

I have the kids color in their tree.

Then using paint and q-tips, the kids make dots on those lines on their tree to add lights.  This craft is good for kids of all ages.  When my kids were younger they would just add random colors, but as they got older they would create a pattern with colors.

This year, I decided to use their tree dot paintings as the covers to their advent journals.