The City of Palm Trees!

Hello and Welcome!

Deuteronomy 32:1-3

Now Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, and the Negev and the plain in the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

Trees!

How many of us have fashioned a tree or two for our class room trying to help our students realize that Bible time land was real and had real trees?
Maybe it was the sycamore tree that Zacchaeus climbed, Luke 19:1-10.
Maybe the barren fig tree that withered when Jesus said it would no longer bare any fruit, Matthew 21:18-22
Then there’s always those creation lessons that could use a few different kinds of trees inside our room, Genesis 1:11-12.  

Palm Trees!

I want to share how another lady and myself made
palm trees one year for our Vacation Bible School!

We used brown and green bulletin board paper, a pencil, black sharpie marker, and scissors. We stapled them into the wall and used duck tape on the wood.

We laid out and layered the brown paper so as we drew and cut rectangles, there would be more than one tree being cut out at one time. The pieces get smaller as you go up so that it gives the illusion of being very tall . The pieces stacked nicely so they were easy to store until it was time to put them on the walls. 

As you can see, we were going to need several palm trees. 

After cutting out each piece for the trunk,
we crumpled them up then smoothed them out with our hands 

to look more like tree bark.

When it came to cutting the leaves, 

we looked up patterns on line 

and drew them out as best we could. 

Each tree had 4-6 long leaves.
Layer the green paper, 

drawn one leaf on top piece of paper, 

and cut 5-6 all at once! 

Helpers added balls 

of the brown paper for coconuts
and crumpled tan paper for the sand.

As you build the trunk of the tree,

 you can tilt the rectangles 

to make your tree lean different directions.

Here are more pictures of our "Shipwrecked - Rescued by Jesus" Theme!

I think you will need a tall ladder! 

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