Teachers or crafters - quick question

[karinothing]

So unsure if anyone can help but I figured I would ask. We have bookfair coming up mid October. We are doing an enchanted forest theme and I wanted to make this bulletin board. However, for the life of me I can not figure out how much paper I will need for the trees. Does anyone have any suggestions? Our bulletin board is pretty big about 17ft by 36inches so I can do a couple trees. I am just buying rolls of paper and they seem to be about 48 X 12 

[pixy0stix]

You mean for the background/trunks, or for the poms? The poms are a crapload of tissue paper.

[karinothing]

Sept 27, 2023 10:34:09 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

You mean for the background/trunks, or for the poms? The poms are a crapload of tissue paper.

Ha sorry. The trunks! Poms are already taken care of  

ETA: I am sure math can solve this somehow! 

[Patsy Baloney]

I think I would be tempted to overbuy on this. I’ve done 1 tree like this before. The trunk isn’t the problem - you can estimate pretty easily by the height of the board about how much you’d use for the trunk. For the branches, there’s a lot of wrinkling and twisting, and it can be hard to estimate how long you want to make them without having them right in front of you. Or at least it is for me!

I’d probably spend some time laying out items so you can play with proportion and measure from there. If you end up doing sometime like 5ft trunk, 2 branches at 4ft each, the. You know that each tree will need about 13 feet in length. If you’re thinking the width may be too thin, I’d double my measurement on length and expect to double-up the paper to get thicker trees and limbs.

[karinothing]

Sept 27, 2023 11:05:15 GMT -5 Patsy Baloney said:

I think I would be tempted to overbuy on this. I’ve done 1 tree like this before. The trunk isn’t the problem - you can estimate pretty easily by the height of the board about how much you’d use for the trunk. For the branches, there’s a lot of wrinkling and twisting, and it can be hard to estimate how long you want to make them without having them right in front of you. Or at least it is for me!

I’d probably spend some time laying out items so you can play with proportion and measure from there. If you end up doing sometime like 5ft trunk, 2 branches at 4ft each, the. You know that each tree will need about 13 feet in length. If you’re thinking the width may be too thin, I’d double my measurement on length and expect to double-up the paper to get thicker trees and limbs.

Thank you!

[rubytue]

Sept 27, 2023 11:05:15 GMT -5 Patsy Baloney said:

I think I would be tempted to overbuy on this. I’ve done 1 tree like this before. The trunk isn’t the problem - you can estimate pretty easily by the height of the board about how much you’d use for the trunk. For the branches, there’s a lot of wrinkling and twisting, and it can be hard to estimate how long you want to make them without having them right in front of you. Or at least it is for me!

I’d probably spend some time laying out items so you can play with proportion and measure from there. If you end up doing sometime like 5ft trunk, 2 branches at 4ft each, the. You know that each tree will need about 13 feet in length. If you’re thinking the width may be too thin, I’d double my measurement on length and expect to double-up the paper to get thicker trees and limbs.

I don’t think I would be tempted, I know I would. Like, just WAG something and end up with way too much. 

let’s see… 48x12 rolls, 36 in tall builtin board. I’d probably do two rolls per tree, one for the trunk and one for the branches, and then 2-3 extra just because.  My trees would end up skinnier than the inspiration and I’d be frustrated. 

[ellipses84]

I think 2 rolls per tree at least. It seems like could could stuff them with recycled paper or something so I’d plan for 2-3x the surface areas of the tree which gives room for 3d stuffing and crinkling.

[sonrisa]

Sept 27, 2023 10:32:23 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Our bulletin board is pretty big about 17ft by 36inches so I can do a couple trees. I am just buying rolls of paper and they seem to be about 48 X 12 

I would do 3 rolls per tree trunk with the idea that two rolls would start at the bottom (layered and crumpled together and stuffed with newspaper if needed for a for a foot wide bas relief trunk), then you have over a foot to twirl/crumple into that third roll which provides most of your branches. 

3-4 tree trunks, depending on your arrangement. 

[sonrisa]

Sept 27, 2023 12:41:37 GMT -5 rubytue said:

My trees would end up skinnier than the inspiration and I’d be frustrated. 

This comment made me chuckle out loud.

[rubytue]

Sept 27, 2023 14:36:22 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

Sept 27, 2023 12:41:37 GMT -5 rubytue said:

My trees would end up skinnier than the inspiration and I’d be frustrated. 

This comment made me chuckle out loud.

I see you accounted for this by using two rolls for the trunks. Clearly, I realized 12 inches wide wasn’t enough for a nice trunk, but refused to recalculate. This is the story of my craft journey. 

[karinothing]

Sept 27, 2023 14:43:00 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Sept 27, 2023 14:36:22 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

This comment made me chuckle out loud.

I see you accounted for this by using two rolls for the trunks. Clearly, I realized 12 inches wide wasn’t enough for a nice trunk, but refused to recalculate. This is the story of my craft journey. 

Wait! I realized that I messed up here lol. The paper is 48 inches by 12 feet  


ETA: But actually I ended up just buying kraft paper that is 18 inches by 100ft. I figure that is enough to figure something out lol ( i bought a couple of them!). 

[karinothing]

I am also going old school this weekend and setting up our projector to project animal color pages on the wall so I can trace them, cut them out and then color them lol. ALSO paper is so $$$

[bugandbibs]

oh. I have been co-chair of bookfair for years and I have never decorated like that. Clearly, I have missed this trend.

(No snark- I love it for you and your school)

[karinothing]

Sept 27, 2023 16:21:54 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

oh. I have been co-chair of bookfair for years and I have never decorated like that. Clearly, I have missed this trend.

(No snark- I love it for you and your school)

Ha ha. I love decorating

[sent]

Sept 27, 2023 14:50:31 GMT -5 karinothing said:

ALSO paper is so $$$

I can't help you with the paper math but we had to do a grownups group project earlier this year. Part of my group put together a paper forest scene. I'm pretty sure the mom said she bought the paper at Lakeshore Learning for a reasonable price because another mom was complaining that paper is expensive. 

Also I brought home the entire forest scene to repurpose for a winter party when DS gets to elementary. Because why not, they were just going to trash it. 

[karinothing]

Sept 27, 2023 17:42:34 GMT -5 sent said:

Sept 27, 2023 14:50:31 GMT -5 karinothing said:

ALSO paper is so $$$

I can't help you with the paper math but we had to do a grownups group project earlier this year. Part of my group put together a paper forest scene. I'm pretty sure the mom said she bought the paper at Lakeshore Learning for a reasonable price because another mom was complaining that paper is expensive. 

Also I brought home the entire forest scene to repurpose for a winter party when DS gets to elementary. Because why not, they were just going to trash it. 

I would love to see it if you have a picture!

Eta: also thanks for the rec. I shall go this wkend

[sent]

Sept 27, 2023 20:21:26 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Sept 27, 2023 17:42:34 GMT -5 sent said:

I can't help you with the paper math but we had to do a grownups group project earlier this year. Part of my group put together a paper forest scene. I'm pretty sure the mom said she bought the paper at Lakeshore Learning for a reasonable price because another mom was complaining that paper is expensive. 

Also I brought home the entire forest scene to repurpose for a winter party when DS gets to elementary. Because why not, they were just going to trash it. 

I would love to see it if you have a picture!

Eta: also thanks for the rec. I shall go this wkend

There was also a side section of just more of the trees. Not as elaborate as the one you posted but we were going for an A for effort. I sourced most of the stuffed animals.

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[karinothing]

Sept 28, 2023 3:23:17 GMT -5 sent said:

Sept 27, 2023 20:21:26 GMT -5 karinothing said:

I would love to see it if you have a picture!

Eta: also thanks for the rec. I shall go this wkend

There was also a side section of just more of the trees. Not as elaborate as the one you posted but we were going for an A for effort. I sourced most of the stuffed animals.

It looks amazing!