Mission accomplished!

The library at our elementary school was fairly dreary when Kat started first grade.  White walls with dark grey accents, white blinds that were mostly broken.  Gray carpet with burgundy office chairs.  Lots and lots of books in blonde wood bookshelves.  Drab. 
Sitting through several PTA meetings the year before last I dreamed up the idea of painting blue sky and clouds on the 65 foot long wall in the back of the library.  We gathered a team of parents and got the job done. 
The students and teachers loved the update, it brought both beauty and science to the room.  The clouds were accurate renditions of the 6 types of clouds and were labeled by one of our parents.  Lovely!

This year I decided that I wanted to paint the portal hallway into the library.  It is about 20 feet long and 10 feet wide at its narrowest spot.  First we taped sections off for each color of the rainbow.  With gifted children you had better make sure that you do Roy G Biv and you do it right!  You will never hear the end of it if you mess it up!
After taping we painted every other stripe.  Red, Yellow, blue, and violet.  Once they dried we went back and painted in the orange, green and indigo stripes. 
Very inviting!  The entire project cost us about $300 and we used 5 volunteers.