Day Seven/Eight/Nine - Mural Panels

On day seven we began a large scale project.  Local artist, Kevin Wenner, was kind enough to create original artwork for a mural.  He painted it large scale to custom fit our 8x20 foot bulletin board.  (I know, it's a huge bulletin board!)  He then cut the mural into eighty 1x2 foot panels.  It showed up in a very unassuming box:

The campers were allowed to color the panels however they wanted (e.g. paint, crayon, tissue paper, marker).  The only rules were "make sure you cover all of the brown" and "don't paint over the black lines."

They all seemed to enjoy working on the larger panels.  One camper even commented, "Miss Jessica, painting makes me calm."  :)

Some took on the challenge to cut tissue paper to fit inside the sections.

They started to figure out that the panels were actually puzzle pieces that would fit together to form a much larger mural.  When they learned the mural was set to be installed on Friday, they really got serious to do their part.