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Re: elementary painting

From: Sharon (sharonbk)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 17:17:43 PST

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    When I worked in an elementary school, I saved milk cartons from lunch, cut
    the tops off and put a ziplock sandwich bag down in the carton. These in a
    shoe box worked reasonably well for a table and I could zip the bag shut if
    the paint was reasonably pure. Otherwise I'd toss it.

    Now at the high school level I started with egg cartons (cut into a few
    sections per student) and have each class save theirs for the next class to
    use. At the end of the day I'd toss them. But even with this conservative
    approach, we couldn't get enough egg cartons to keep a steady supply, and
    storage was a problem, too.

    Now I'm using the small black "lean cuisine-ish" type containers and urging
    the kids to be conservative with paint. If they take too much I save those
    for the next class to use, but then my last class always get stuck with a
    lot of clean up. This is with tempera. When we switch to acrylic, we'll
    start using baby food jars and film canisters.

    Another teacher I know bought a bunch of boxes used for cross-stitch thread
    (with the tops) and had her kids use those. Advantage was that it kept the
    acrylic fresh from day to day and if a color dried out, it could usually be
    peeled from the plastic fairly easily. Disadvantage was storage space and
    the fact that kids didn't always clean them up well, wouldn't shut them,
    etc. Still looking for better ideas....

    Sharon
    sharonbk
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