And like all projects go with little ones under five, they weren’t interested after ten minutes (two for Blaze), so guess who ended up finishing the Mid-Winter Tree? 🙂

Any moms relate? 🙂

Photo Exercise on Point of View while making a Mid-Winter Tree (project from our Waldorf school!)

1. Be prepared for a mess! 🙂

2. Instead of throwing out your Christmas tree right away, set it in a pot outside and make a mid-winter feast tree for your birds and squirrels. All you need is pine cones, string, lots of peanut butter, birdseed, pumpkin seeds, and apples or oranges.

3. Give each child their own bowl of peanut butter and let them roll their pine cones through it, stuffing the peanut butter in every little pine cone nook. Then sprinkle bird seed or pumpkin seeds over the top. (It’s a great project for pre-school age because they can just get messy or like Blaze, opt to eat the peanut butter. :))

4. After you have a few peanut butter pine cones, start stringing them up on your tree (we used our little Christmas tree that was in the play room, but any tree would do).

5. Then slice up your apples and oranges and string those too! If you’re really going for it, you can always string popcorn, but I hear cranberries aren’t really tasty to little animals. 🙂

6. And don’t forget to shoot some shots those first five minutes of the project. Work on your point of view. Get up on a chair, move down to the floor, shoot straight on, keep mixing it up without the kids having to move for you.

7. Lighting tip, if you’re photos are too dark you may want to bump up your ISO to 800 or 1600. For these above images, my ISO had to be at 800, and I opened up to a 2.8 to 3.2 f-stop. The higher ISO makes them a bit grainy, but I don’t mind it for what I was trying to capture. Have fun!!

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