sharing a long sheet of craft paper, children
work together to paint a mural of the specific day or event.
How to do it:
a mural is a picture made as a group that
depicts many parts of a theme (ie.
a river or horizon through the length of the paper well help define a common
horizon for some of the children so the finished image looks like it flows)
use heavy brown paper
(or white craft paper on a roll) and
tempera paint
place paper on floor (allow approx.
2’ per child)
divide parts of mural up by drawing a border
line to indicate each child’s working space
establish the theme in everyone’s imagination
through story or pictures or simply talking about it! Everyone uses their
space to create their part of the theme
