Easy supplies, nice problem-solving, designing, and teamwork! It’s the Brown Bag Tree STEM Problem!

I’ve so many issues to share about this superb vacation undertaking to design a Christmas tree utilizing one easy materials. We name it the Brown Bag Tree for a motive!

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What’s the Problem?

College students use supplies to design a tree for the vacation. The catch is likely one of the supplies is a brown paper bag ( lunch bag). That bag have to be used as a part of the tree however could be any half the workforce decides.

Now, what did I count on? I believed the scholars would use the bag for the trunk.

Boy, was I improper about that! I watched in fascination as totally different teams tackled the Brown Bag Tree challenge- with totally different outcomes and so many issues to resolve! The duty has some necessities that proved to be tough. Let’s have a look at all of the methods college students designed their Brown Bag Timber.

The Brown Bag Tree should rise up.

The tree itself could be flat so long as it stands upright. It is a little difficult whenever you make the tree out of 1 skinny paper bag.

Add the load of the decorations to the flimsy paper and you’ve got a tree that falls over.

The workforce on this picture added a well-placed craft stick behind their tree to make it rise up! #intelligent

The tree could be any form.

One other guideline in regards to the brown bag tree was its form! The solely rule was that it may very well be any form.

A flat tree was one I noticed so much! College students made them with the bag or development paper.

TIP: That is the right problem to make use of your scrap field for! College students will make all types of decorations (or bushes) from these scraps.

How A couple of Skinny Tree?

I feel one factor college students determined about this problem was {that a} skinny tree may stand upright higher than a large one.

This made for some attention-grabbing decor particulars.

Within the far left picture discover college students lower pipe cleaners into tiny items to make tree branches.

Within the heart image college students loaded the tree down with ornaments product of pom-poms. And within the third picture pipe cleaners have been used for garland.

Using supplies was attention-grabbing. And sudden.

Pipe cleaners have been utilized in so some ways. They have been branches on bushes, lower into tiny items or wrapped in a spherical form.

In these 4 photos search for the brown bag. On 3 of the bushes, the bag is the trunk (which is what I anticipated). However within the 4th image, the bag is taped to the tabletop and the tree to make it rise up.

Additionally, did you see the tree skirt one workforce made for his or her brown bag tree?

Extra Sudden Issues!

I by no means considered making presents to go beneath the tree, however college students certain did. Within the above photographs you have got reward bins with paper bows, and flat bins with pipe cleaner bows. So inventive!

And, lastly, the bushes wanted a star!

This was so enjoyable to look at. Stars have been constituted of all types of supplies. Within the photographs, you have got a paper star, two pipe cleaner stars, and a star constituted of cotton swabs!

In certainly one of my lessons, we found one pupil may make an ideal star for her workforce’s tree. Quickly after that, different groups have been taking a pipe cleaner to her to make a star for his or her tree. Our knowledgeable star maker!

I do know you’ll love the easy, simple prep STEM Problem. It’s excellent for these final couple of weeks earlier than Christmas break!

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