Each year all the classes at St. John take turns decorating the cafeteria with art, and each year I remember to save art to put up for this purpose. Usually it’s not a big deal because our turn comes after our big Potato Bake dinner and we just move all the Mr. Potato Head decorations from the fellowship hall to the cafeteria – done and done.
Not this year. This year we got a different time slot and I totally forgot until we only had two days left to make something.
Panic!
I scavenged some paintings the children had done, and then we went into full-on elf mode. Crank out the art, children! (Well, actually a craft.)
We made some 3-D coffee filter flowers (not my invention). They have maximum impact for minimum effort. You staple 7-8 coffee filters together then paint them. We used liquid watercolors – a marvel of modern paint technology. (In a preschool room, regular in-the-pan watercolors exist for exactly one minute as separate colors, then they are all muddy.)
After they dry you crinkle and crimp (crimple?) the filters, starting with the top one and working your way down.
Keep going…..
Whew.
Staple to the top of a construction paper stem, add some leaves, and we. are. golden.
Magic moving picture ahead: