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Painting a school wall with 200 kids

Lessons from a week of chaos, colour and a lot of paint on small shoes.

Rainbow mural on a long wall

Plan for mess

Two hundred kids, six days, thirty metres of wall. The secret was simple: numbered shapes, one colour per class and a very big bucket of wet wipes.


Every kid painted their own shape, and every edge got fixed after school. Nobody noticed, and that was the point.

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