Girls, girls, girls!!!

"Girls, girls, girls!!" That was the first reaction we got when the little kids at the Boys and Girls club saw us. It was on Tuesday and we had been working on the mural all day, when the kids finally started arriving. Since on the past occasions they had not seen us working - the had only seen the progress on the wall - they were curious to know who "the painters" were. "The painters" would become our new nickname.At first they were a little shy but eventually they warm-up to.

Whenever they were in the computer room and we were working on the mural, they get easily distracted with what we were doing. At one point, we decided to give a little girl and boy the chance to actually paint. Epic fail! They painted outside the marked lines, which we later had to go back and fix, and one of them kept jumping with the paintbrush in his hand. (This made us really nervous cause there was carpet on the floor and the paint didn't come out easily.) After that small experience we realized we needed another way of getting them involved.

On Thursday, we got to take over an art class(from 5:45 to 6:30) in which we allowed them to decorate a star. The plan is to later laminate it and put them on the wall. The children really enjoyed the activity and went all out by putting a lot of paint on those stars.

Overall the experience with the kids was very rewarding because we enjoyed spending time with them and hearing their good feedback about the mural!