At the end of the last school term my kindergarten class spent a week focusing on kindness, diversity and gratitude. We read books, sang songs, played games and wrote about these themes.. building the next generation of amazing humans! At the end of the week we created this Gratitude Mural.
Lesson Materials:
acrylic paint
lead pencils
2 sheets large cardboard
super thick black permanent marker
Lesson Steps:
1. We brainstormed all the things we are grateful for on our whiteboard. The children came up with a fabulous list including: love, kindness, family, yummy food, music, books, the sun, the rain, flowers, helping people, and many more.
2. The children chose 1 or more things from the list to go and draw on some A4 computer paper.
3. After school I photocopied and enlarged the drawings (and made multiples of some), cut them out and arranged them on the 2 sheets of cardboard. I then traced all the images onto the card. (You could totally skip this step and just get the kids to draw straight onto the card, but they would need assistance with making their drawings large enough to fit the paintbrushes in... little kids love to do teensy drawings!!)
4. I set up a mural-painting station at the back of the room with lots of colours laid out. As the children worked on writing "Letters to the world" (oh my... cutest things to read ever!)... I called a few children up at the time to paint parts of the mural.
5. When dry (it took a whole day!)... I outlined all their drawings in the black marker.
Enjoy!!
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