Community Paper and Peace Wreaths

Before vacation each child had the opportunity to make a Peace Wreath. The first step in creating the Peace Wreaths was to make community paper.  Ms. LaRose had never made community paper before (it is rather messy and requires a lot of supplies).  However, Mrs. Plunkett was a tremendous help with the supplies (all of which were hers) and she taught Ms. LaRose how to make community paper.

As a result, on Monday we began making community paper! The first station was the splatter paint station where students used a spoon and tooth brush to spray paint all over their paper.  The second station was the saran wrap station where students would lay a piece of saran wrap over their painting and mix the paint together.  The last station was sponge painting.  Students used old sponges to create a piece of paper fully covered in paint!  We let our paper dry overnight.  In addition to the three painting stations, another station used the Cricket to die-cut the letters in “peace”.  A BIG thank you to Kari (Zach’s mom), Pat & Erin (Trinity’s parents) and Liz (Emily’s mom) who helped with the making of the community paper.

On Tuesday, students used the community paper to cut out their hand prints.  Each student had to cut about 10 hand prints.  We then glued the hand prints around a paper plate.  Students glued the letters “peace” over their hand prints.  The last step was to glue a ribbon on the back of the paper plate. Thank you to Brenda (Alaina’s mom) who helped in many ways on Tuesday.

The students in room 6 and Ms. LaRose are very appreciative of Mrs. Plunkett, her help in this project was instrumental in its success!