What color should I paint my classroom?
I teach kindergarten and am about to repaint my classroom. I was thinking about a bright color on each wall, but someone suggested that I didn’t want to overstimulate the students. What colors do yall think? Also I have someone willing to paint a mural on one of the walls? What pictures, themes or characters do you think the kindergarteners would like? Boys and girls both.
paint the walls light colors ie. (yellow,pink, baby blue) then each yr lets the kids do their handprints on the wall! I did it when i was little and im in 11th grade and went back to my elm. school to see my handprint!!
Maybe you can do bright colors like pink, yellow, and blue, but use them as pastels. It might be really nice looking! I hope this helps.
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Green! It is so soothing, naturally stimulating to children, and if you do it in different shades, it won’t be boring. If you want to do a mural, consider doing it on a large piece of plywood (or 2 or 3) so that if you want to change your theme or style, it is simple to remove and replace.
If you want an easy mural, paint the top half of the wall pale blue, and the bottom a medium green. Instant horizon! You could make the line a bit wavy (hills) or dry bresh "grass" along the top of the green part. Skip the clouds (too busy) and avoid adding too much in the way of painted accents (flowers, bugs, cars etc) those are easy to add with wallpaper stickers, then remove for a change.
Have fun!
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It could be a fun project to wait and ask the students for input. That might give them a little sense of ownership and feel like they have contributed so that they may feel more comfortable and confident as well. Even if there suggestions are too elaborate you should be able to incorporate enough to make it work. Just a thought
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I like greens. Since they are found in nature, they seem livable and both calming and energizing for students and teachers alike.
A fun mural might be a countryside blending into a cityscape. It could include roads, train tracks and locomotives, cars, people, animals on farms, little colorful homes, children playing and flying kites, etc. You could put most of the pictures on a rear or side wall near a play area so it would not distract the kids when they need to really focus. You could also have each part of the mural coincide with parts of the room. For example, you could have a seashore or marina by the sink or fishtank or whatever. You could have a little red schoolhouse near the entrance door (welcome to school!). You could have an airport or train station near the cubbies and coat hooks to suggest coming and going.
I would stay away from really theme-y stuff like popular cartoon characters, since that type of things looks out of date really quickly. I definitely agree that a really bright color on every wall is too much for an elementary classroom.
If you decided on that type of mural, you could have the top 1/4 or so of the wall (plus the ceiling if you want) be painted blue, and the bottom portion could be rolling green hills all the way around the room. If you chose tones that were somewhat muted, I think you and the kids would be really happy and productive. Good luck!
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How about four different ‘soft’ colors? [ rose, custard yellow,
jade green, smoke blue? ]
You could designate the resting area blue; the reading area rose [ more awake but not buzzy ]; the learning [ abcs, alphabet, health ] areas green [ quiet but alert ] and the greeting and singing or game area yellow [ wide awake! ].
If you get a mural, I suggest one of famous book characters they will recognize by end of year – fairy tales, Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, Clifford, Blue.
Maybe you could have a solar system on the ceiling – painted or 3d.
Or, a math wall – pix of 2 apples + 3 apples = __, 4 bananas – 1 banana = __, and
a sciencewall – pix of skeletons, healthy foods; and
a history wall – pix of all federal holiday characters and symbols; and reading wall – see above.
Maybe paint the bottoms of all walls with solid, washable paint; and do murals or pix and posters on top halves of walls.
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paint the walls light colors ie. (yellow,pink, baby blue) then each yr lets the kids do their handprints on the wall! I did it when i was little and im in 11th grade and went back to my elm. school to see my handprint!!
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gray and white with a solar system mural!
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