I often had little pre-product painting activities.
But mostly mine were to loosen them up - since you
are doing mandalas - you want to tighten them up.
Woody
On Mar 18, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Boots13@aol.com wrote:
> My 7th Grade students are about to paint on their final Mandala
> Records,
> however we just started our color theory unit and they painted a
> color wheel
> sheet just to get them acquainted with holding the brush and
> painting in the
> lines. None of them have really ever painted before so I am
> apprehensive about
> having them now jump into painting their Mandala's after only one
> session with
> paint.
> Does anyone have any mini-pre-activity suggestions they can do
> before we
> actually get to the final product? Just to get them more
> comfortable with the
> brushes, detail, and paint itself.
>
> Thanks
> terri
>
>
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