Torn Paper Truffula Trees With The Lorax

One of our favorite Dr Seuss books to read is the Lorax. We have read it almost every year. We love the story and the truffula trees are so much fun.

We have a simple and easy to make truffula tree art activity that kids of different ages can make. Torn paper makes a great craft and works on fine motor at the same time.

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The Torn Paper Truffula Trees is a great addition to the Dr Seuss activities and torn paper crafts on the site.

Read the book The Lorax (Classic Seuss) and then made torn paper Truffula Trees.

Torn Paper Truffula Tree

This is a super simple craft that kids in preschool and older can make. You can prepare all the parts ahead of time or let kids tear their own paper.

You can make this simple truffula tree craft in about 10 to 15 minutes depending on the age of the kids. This is a Dr. Seuss Truffula Tree craft.

What you need to make your Torn Paper Truffula Trees

• construction paper: blue, green, yellow, red, orange, and purple
• glue
• brown marker
• craft sticks

How we made the Torn Paper Truffula Trees

You are going to see the steps below we used to make the torn paper truffula tree.

Put Glue on the Green Paper

You want to cover the edges and some of the middle of the green paper with glue. If you have younger kids the white glue is nice so they can see easy where the glue is. If you have older kids the clear glue works fine as well. You could also use a glue stick for this part.

Glue on the Green paper to the Blue

You put the green paper on top of the blue paper. You line up the bottom edge of the papers together.

Draw Lines on the Craft Stick

We drew lines on the craft sticks. This is to help it look more like the truffula trees in the book. They can draw as many or as few lines as they want. This is their craft so let them decide how many lines are enough.

Glue on the Craft Sticks

You put glue on the back of the craft stick.

Then you place the stick on the paper. They can place them any way they want. It does not all have to look the same.

You can also put glue on the paper and place the craft stick on the paper. You can be flexible on how you do the do. Do what is best for the age of kids doing the craft.

Tear Up the Paper

This part can be fun or hard for kids. If you have kids that are not ready for tearing paper you can have the paper torn up in advance. It is still a fine motor skill to pick up the pieces and glue them.

If they are older then let them tear up the paper. It is great to work on fine motor skills.

Put Glue on Around the Top of the Craft Stick

You put glue around the top of the tree. We did a large circle to start for how big we wanted the tree and then filled in some of the circles after that.

Remember that these trees can be different and if kids want a small top then let them. This should be fun and let kids have fun doing it.

Use the Torn paper to Make the top of the Truffule Tree

Then you take the torn paper you made and use it for the top of the tree. You want to cover the whole area you glued.

You repeat the last two steps until all your trees and made.

Something to remember always check your glue to make sure it will work okay. Out glue did not when we started out and that can be upsetting for kids when that happens.

Final look at our Truffula Trees

More Truffula Tree Activites

Yarn Truffula Trees is a fun craft to make for truffula trees. We love using yarn for activities. This is a great fine motor activity for find to do.

Watercolor & Oil Pastel Truffula Trees is another fun truffula tree craft kids can make. This is ag reat mixed art with making the trees first and then painting.

Q-Tip Painted: Truffula Tree is a great watercolor and paint themed truffula tree. These are great for fine motor work. You can have fun mixing different types of painting to make great pictures.

Check out these other Dr. Seuss Activities.

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