Pine Bark Letters

Give an Arbor Day bulletin board a natural look with pine bark letters! 
Simply cut letters for your board's title from tagboard; then use hot glue to
 attach pieces of pine bark (purchased at your local garden center) to each letter.

Save Our Planet Bulletin Board

Cut out a large tree and place on a bulletin board.  Cut out white
 apple shaped paper.  On the apple shapes, ask the children to write
 or illustrate ways in which trees and the Earth can be saved.  To
 get the children started, remind them of the 3 r's: reuse, recycle,
 and reduce.  Arrange the apple shapes on and around the tree.
 Title the bulletin board "Tree-mendous Ideas to Save Our Planet!"

Tree Display

Cut a sheet of butcher paper the length of a door or wall. Sketch in a trunk
 about half the height. Have children work together with browns/grays/black paint
 to paint the trunk. When trunk is dry help children use yellow/red/orange/green
 paint and use their hand prints for the leaves, put leaves all over the top of the
 trunk. Don't forget to put some leaves "falling" from the tree and some on the
 ground. Or you can cut out handprints of the children in the fall colors and glue
 them to the trunk instead of painting them. I scanned pictures of the children and
 glued pictures of each child on their own handprint on one of the leaves.

Mural Forest

To make a tree, press a child's hand into green tempera paint. Keeping he fingers
and thumb close together, press the hand on a roll piece of white butcher paper,
 making the tree, leaves and branches. Have the children print their hands as many
 times as they would like on the same paper to  make a forest. Use a brown maker
sideways, print the child's names under their trees to make the trunks.