Introducing...The Monthly Mural!

Over the past few months, we have been working on a lot of murals. This group of Frogs seems to gravitate towards painting projects, the bigger the better. If we set out paper and paint, you can bet that within two minutes, all nine children will be gathered around, quietly focusing on painting together for 30 minutes or more. It is quite remarkable to watch!
This morning, we had planned on setting out paper and paint to start a new cooperative painting project. When I went in to the art studio to grab a piece of paper, I noticed a mural that we had started last month that was on top of the drying rack. Rather than cut a new sheet of mural paper, I grabbed that instead.
We will often save children's artwork and put out the same sheet of paper over several easel sessions. It is interesting to see how a child will approach and work with the lines and colors that are already on the page.
Today, we put our fall colored mural from October out with trays of paint and matchbox cars to see where the frogs went with it. Here are the results;

We will continue adding to this mural every month, just to see what happens. It should be an interesting way to track our progress through the year!