Mommio: Art Class

Today in art class at Weaver's Bottom we focused on learning about murals.  We made a really cool cooperative mural...the kids loved it so much that we will have to try it again sometime with even more kids.  First, we spread butcher paper out along long tables and each picked a spot and one paint color:

Then I would call out a word like "dots", "triangle", "three lines", etc. and the kids would paint what I said and then rotate to the spot next to them:

Later on it became less concrete with words like "up", "fast", "messy", etc.  The kids were really into it at this point:

About 20 minutes into the project we turned on music (Bare Naked Ladies Snacktime ) and the kids painted how the music made them feel.  When I switched songs, they rotated again and kept on going:

To end it we danced around the table and filled in all the spots we could find:

  It was a really fun group project.  Here is the finished masterpiece: