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Nest & Chicks added to our Silhouette Mural

We made a few updates to our mural at school. We painted the original in 2015.

A school hallway mural with silhouettes of children engaging in various activities like reading, playing, and using a laptop has been added.

This year, after some unfortunate defacing with Sharpie, we cleaned it up and realized some areas needed touching up. So my helpful middle school study hall kids decided to touch up and help me with some additions.

They added the chicks and chicken at the front (every other year our Science department hatches chicks).

Mural of a hen and three chicks with an egg on a wall below a small window. Several chicks inside a brooder with a red heat lamp, with the outside environment visible through the mesh wire. Chicks in a cage with wood shavings, some feeding and others walking around under a soft light. Baby chicks in an indoor brooder with a heat lamp, feeding, and walking around on wood shavings, creating an adorable nest-like scene.

And then we decided to add a tree branch with a nest. We are called Eagle School and our Kindergarten is called the Nest. So we felt it was a good idea.

A wall mural shows a black dog and a branch surrounded by positive words. A silhouette mural of people and a dog painted on a classroom wall, with some carrying books.

Soon after this picture was taken, we decided to add butterflies!  We had such a blast adding some extra touches to our mural.

Silhouette mural with butterflies, a tree with nest and chicks, a dog, and words such as "explore" and "adventure" written around figures.

Silhouette murals of colorful butterflies and educational-themed designs grace a white wall surrounding a door.

The mural, a striking Silhouette Mural, depicts musicians and a chicken with chicks beside a wall-mounted fire extinguisher in the hallway.

The original mural was created with silhouettes traced from projected shadows of students. Each of the silhouette students represents a different department at our school…. Music, Science, Language Arts & Social Studies, P.E./Sports, Computers/Tech, Foreign Languages, Art & Drama, and Math. The dog is based off of a teacher’s dog who has spent a lot of time with the kids at school and represents companionship, adventure, outdoors and play.

A school hallway decorated with a vibrant silhouette mural of children engaged in various activities, accompanied by colorful drawings and a charming nest & chicks motif. A silhouette mural of people engaging in various activities, accented with colorful words, painted on a white wall.

Here is my original post about the mural.

Here was the video I originally made about the mural and the process.

 


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About Marcia Beckett

Marcia is an elementary art teacher and loves painting, drawing, sculpture, art journaling and clay. Her blog, Art is Basic, features many exciting art projects for kids.

One Response to Nest & Chicks added to our Silhouette Mural

  1. Beautiful, Marcia!

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