What to do:
- sharing a large sheet of paper, children
create a group animal picture, i.e. zoo, farm, jungle, etc.
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
