Spring: Chinese Blossoms

I can't help but do this project every spring. The first step is to take a blob of watered down paint and have the kids blow the paint around the paper using a straw to create the trunks and branches of a tree. Then they glue tissue paper flowers to their tree. If possible it's nice for the kids to be able to examine real cherry or plum blossoms beforehand. We also looked at Japanese prints of cherry blossoms.