THE GIVING TREE

“My Heart is Bestowed in the Earth”

Our Current Collaborative Projects

 

Empower Youth to be Stewards for Reforesting Our Earth

Show youth that they inspire you to make a difference!

Join our National Giving Tree Project Campaign and Help Offset your Carbon Footprint.  Planting Trees through One Tree Planted.

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School Wide Giving Tree

This tree is to go in schools as a poster. The schools raise money to plant trees to balance the amount of paper usage at the school. This tree is a branch of the Giving Tree Project is to step in the direction of not leaving a negative impact on the environment and our local ecosystems and encourage kids to be aware of the way there actions impact the world around them.

Giving Tree Project - Bellingham Washington.

Bellingham, WA

This collaborative project involved five local artist mentors as well as over 150 kids in Bellingham. Special thanks to mentors Brandon Nelson, Jacquie Bresadola, Chel Hull and Carol Anderson. This tree has been on display at various locations in Bellingham and has so far raised $1000 towards planting trees!

Giving Tree Project - Doe Bay Tree

Doe Bay, Orcas Island, WA

Doe Bay Retreat center offered us a stay at their stunning retreat center in the middle of their garden. From there we used the natural surroundings to create a Giving Tree for them to put in their store, where people from all over can enjoy the art and learn more about our organization as well as contributing to the planting of trees. A special thanks to Bellingham Millworks for the discount on the beautiful piece of cedar.
Giving Tree Project - Long Lake Tree

Longlake Trash Tree

This tree was made from candy wrappers that a group of young artists at camp made!

Western Washington University Hillel

This Giving Tree was made at Western Washington University with Hillel Students!

Rainbow Giving Tree

This tree was made by a group of youth depicting the nature and city scape of Bellingham, with an inclusive rainbow connecting  the images.

Heart of Play

Heart of Play is a fantastic organization supporting kids! This tree was made by a group of kids for them! Using hearts as a central theme, groups of kids were able to design and create together.

Butterfly Books

This tree was made at a local studio in bellingham, it is a rainbow book with butterflies and poetry emerging from the colorful pages.

Hold the Earth with Love

This tree was made at a workshop in Bellingham among a bunch of kids, ages 9-13. The earth is held with a loving hand and plant life is growing out of it. People surround the earth holding hands in peace.

The World is My Cherry on Top

This tree has a bunch of scoops of ice cream and each scoop was designed by a small group of kids.

Bellingham Arts Academy For Youth (BAAY)

BAAY’s Giving Tree has a central design of comedy and drama masks, with the ribbons holding the words, “Dream Big” and “Plant Trees”.  The earth is centered behind the masks, with the words from Shakespeare saying, “All the world is a stage”.  The leaves depict a variety of plays that kids enjoyed doing.

Treasure Our Beautiful Earth

This tree was made for a local sweets shop. It has an array of beautiful flowers and a firebird drinking sweet nectar. It was created by a small group of kids at a workshop.

Mushroom Garden

This tree has a garden of rainbow mushrooms with a calm river running through the gardens and a sparkly hummingbird.

Shakespeare Tree

This tree has the drama and comedy masks as a central theme. Inside of these masks are landscapes of mountains, hills, ocean and flowers. A quotation by Shakespeare is wood burned into the top of the tree. “One Touch Of Nature Makes The Whole World Kin.”

Mama & Baby Bear by the River

This tree was made by a small group of young kids at a mother daughter event in Bellingham, WA.

Lighthouse Giving Tree

This Giving Tree was made by a small group of younger kids, depicting a peaceful, typical northwest scene, using mosaics, acrylic paint, and wood burning.

Our goal is to plant 1 million trees.

Thank you for helping us reach our goal.

 

Contact us to Make a Giving Tree

For Your Community, Organization or Business!

 

A big thank you to:

Mike at Millworks for cutting out the tree shapes! 

Todd Hildebrand for helping with the photography!

Hooray for community involvement!

Come get involved with the Project!