Winter murals for kids

I know many of us were inspired by the Winter Mural posted by Art With Mr. E, and I want to say to him Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!! Not only was it a wonderful idea, it also solved my "Program Problem" that I previously blogged about. Here it is in it's entirety. I also added snowflakes on the curtain because it looked a little empty around it. I made three panels of the winter scenes and then put them together. PreK- 5th worked on it. It is 3 ft. x 10 ft. 10 in. in size. Right Panel…

The past few years, I've tried to do murals with my students...but mainly when it serves my purpose. This usually being those odd weeks during holidays that would throw the flow of my projects way off because the weeks are only 2 or 3 days long. The inspiration for this piece comes from Pinterest...and I've posted it & the links below. I'm still thinking about having some classes create a few more pieces for it, but we'll have to see. The boarder was created for a print making lesson by…

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Let's just forget that it's spring in less than a month, shall we? 'Cuz this winter mural is finally finished! Note to self: start winter mural on first day of school. Well, Happy Wintery Day to you! And, if you are here in Tennessee, this year's wintery has meant rainy, tornado-y, and weirdly warm. Nothing like our winters of the past two years which managed to produce enough snow to provide us with some delightful snow days. Not that us teachers like snow days. Oh no! We just spend the…

In the couple of weeks before we let out for Christmas Break, the elementary students created a Winter Mural. I wanted to do something different with a wow factor. I saw on a couple of art teach blogs that I follow, murals done by their students. They were fabulous! I knew Corner School could do it right! The mural is still located at the elementary entrance of the school (near the teacher parking lot). This is the break down of the mural: - Kindergarten painted the sky and snow - 1st grade…