Thursday, November 23, 2023

A Very Unusual Christmas Tree!

Last year we read All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings as our Nature Study book and I set up a tree on our Nature Table. Every day we added the animal ornament that went with with each new chapter.


All Creation Waits by Gayle Boss

list of 24 animals & ornament sources

my Advent Tree photos


This year I'm deciding what to do. It would be so so so fun to do a Corita Kent-inspired tree, with ornaments that represent grocery store items (see Sister Corita: The Juiciest Tomato)!

I got this idea from yesterday's Corita Art Center email with pictures of a "juiciest tomato" ornament and a "Wonderbread" ornament. So I started looking around for ornaments of produce and food packaging. I found quite a few! I doubt I'll invest in so many new ornaments, but wouldn't it be fun??


prosciutto, olive oil, Italian salami, balsamic vinegar



Chinese takeout


I do have a blown glass eggplant ornament already, courtesy of my mom. She gave it to me when I was a little girl. She has very quirky taste! :-)


avocado


barbeque sauce


bell peppers


blueberry muffin


broccoli


Brussels sprout


butter


carrots


cauliflower


caviar


cheddar


chocolate chip cookies


coffee


corn


croissant


Diet Coke


donut


donut


Doritos, Cool Ranch


Doritos, Nacho Cheese


eggs


Flamin' Hot Cheetos


garlic


Gouda


grapefruit


grapes


Hershey kiss


hot dogs


hot sauce


ice cream


instant ramen noodles


ketchup


kiwi


lemon


maple syrup


marshmallows


mushrooms, button


mushrooms, portobello


olives


papaya


Parmesan


pasta


peach


peanut butter


pickles


pistachios


ranch dressing


red onion


salsa


sardines


sodas


soy sauce


Spam


squash


strawberry


sushi


sweet potato


tomato


Wonderbread


Here are all of my Art History: Sister Mary Corita Kent lesson plans.

Come to think of it, it would be really amazing to set up a Christmas tree like that as part of our Corita Kent display at the Donut Art Show on June 1st. Maybe I'll work on collecting ornaments over the next few months!

Another idea (less expensive) could be to get a bunch of fillable round clear ball ornaments and fill them with different foods. That wouldn't have the packaging aspect, but it would demonstrate a variety of colors and textures.


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