How to Make a Tree From Clay with Kids

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Rachel Dayan for Expert Village. Now we’re going to make two trees, this is a little bit harder, so we’re going to have here, Hilliah, which is five years old and Elishivah which is seven years old, gonna make the trees to decorate our zoo here too. Elishivah, this is gonna be the stem of the tree and Hilliah, we’re going to roll, roll the, uh, the clay, into a thick, into a thick part, very good Hilliah, not too much, not too much, very good, very nice. Now fold it up and we’re going to open it a little bit. Open it and this is going to be the stem for our tree. We’re going to take now green clay, and, and make little long snakes, longer snakes, longer and thinner snakes. Those are going to be our leaves. Hilliah, what we do with our long snakes, I’m gonna squish it like this, squish it gently, very good, squish it Hilliah, very good, put it on the table and squish it, not too hard and now after you squished it, you’re going to start folding it up, you take it out, and stuff a little bit, we’re going to take it off the table, and you start folding it like, up this, fold it up, okay, fold it up, very nice, very good Hilliah. Very good, fold it up, these are going to be our leafs, take the folded clay and put it around the branches here. You have branches too, Hilliah, you just take it and put it around, around like this, you just stick it to the, to the clay. You need another one, so do some more; it needs to cover all the branches over there. Now you can either make fruits for your tree, you can leave them like that, you can make little fruits oranges or apples as you wish."