Mural painting

If you have a whole lot of small children with not much to do and it's a lovely sunny day out, get them to paint a mural. I get a roll of heavyweight paper like butchers' paper and using masking tape, tape  the paper up in a long length against a fence or a brick wall.

All children are then slathered in sunscreen, a hat and old clothes (big baggy t-shirts that my husband no longer uses) I provide each child with brushes and a container of different coloured paint (which they have to share with everyone else). We decide on a theme - seaside, circus, farm etc and then they get painting. There is as much paint on each other as there is on the mural but they love it.


Submitted by Diana M, December 2006.