We decided to make this mural after looking at a beautiful picture of a coral reef in one of our extra home school books. We did this with mostly paper and water colors. Supplies we used:
-one big sheet of sturdy paper
-white paper (for painting our fish)
-colored paper cut into small shapes
-water color paints
-scissors
-glue
First, we painted our blue ocean background. Some little helpers from our building actually helped us do this part. We let this dry for one day and came back to the rest of our reef the next day. Then, we used shapes cut from colored paper to create the collage that formed our "coral reef" (which you see at the bottom right hand side of our mural). Then, we painted some pictures of different types of seaweed and plants, and glued them along our coral reef. Next, we chose our favorite fish and sea creatures from the pictures in our book, and painted them the best we could on separate pieces of white paper. Then, we pasted the fish pictures onto our scene. Last, we labeled all of our fish and sea life. This mural made a nice decoration for the wall of our school room for quite some time. It was a fun little project to incorporate some of our "helpers" in our building, too.
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