Grade 2 Spring Mural Projects
Second-graders look forward to the promise of spring, which can mean a chance to finally play outside during recess. Celebrate the return of spring with your classroom by painting a mural. Murals add color and life to a wall inside your classroom and provide a way to show off the work of your class when located in the hall. Think of new and creative themes to showcase the elements of the season.
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Butterfly Hands
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Create a spring mural that's literally hands-on for everyone in the class. Butterflies come in numerous colors and varieties and their whimsical shapes can spark a child's imagination. Before starting the mural, prepare a water station at one end for hand washing, and place a drop-cloth on the floor. Allow each child to choose a paint color. The children can dip their hands into the paint and position them together to form the butterfly wings. Have each one press his hands onto the mural surface as you paint his name underneath. Once the handprint butterflies dry you can either add the details to each one yourself or give each child a turn to add them.
3D Mural
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Murals are traditionally thought of as two-dimensional paintings. Create something with depth by making a 3D spring mural. This makes it easy for each child to add his own touch. Paint a basic spring scene as the background. Add grass and a sky along with some trees and flowers. Assign the children to make objects like tissue paper flowers, egg carton caterpillars, cardboard bugs and animals. Attach the objects the children create onto the mural background, strategically placing them throughout.
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Meanings of Spring
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Children in 2nd grade are learning concepts of words and meanings. Teach a lesson about words that sound the same but have more than one meaning, using spring as the main example. Talk about its meaning as a season, as an object that bounces and as the verb that means to jump. After the lesson, create a spring mural that incorporates all of these meanings. You could have the children paint bouncing flowers attached to a spring instead of a stem, along with a picture of a grasshopper springing into the air.
Flower Garden
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Paint a spring flower garden mural. Include the mural project as part of a lesson on growing things and cycle of the seasons. Make one flower for each child and once the paint has dried attach a picture of each second-grader in the center of the flowers. Add a creative touch such as depicting the garden as being in a classroom with each flower sitting on a desk.
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References
- Photo Credit kids mural. image by Paula Gent from Fotolia.com
