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With warmer days ahead, children can spend even more time outdoors working on a large scale and exploring their creative ideas. The following suggestions focus on two-dimensional mark-making with paint. Abstract murals

Abstract murals

* Tape lengths of paper along a fence, joining two rolls together if necessary, so that the paper stretches from the ground to the height of the tallest child.

* Spread a roll of plastic floor protector along the bottom of the paper and arrange resources along this at intervals.

* Provide a selection of paints in non-spill pots with brushes of different thicknesses at one end of the plastic.

* Arrange shallow trays of thick paint and a varied collection of printing materials, such as sponges, or a range of paint rollers, at the other.

* Have an area alongside the fence where the children can put on overalls or aprons.

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