This was a great project for our group because we had low numbers because of spring break. It took a lot of work to setup but all the setup paid off and allowed kids to work in small group - collaborate and then hang their murals. They are all made from post it notes.
I made the templates last week by pixilating some graphics that I found online (that weird one is the logo for our church). Then I created a spreadsheet in Excel that had square boxes and just counted squares and colored them in until the image matched. it was pretty easy to make. The harder part was realizing that post-it notes don't stick to walls very well, so I used huge paper from a roll (3 feet wide). The most tedious part was drawing a 1 foot by 1 foot graph on the paper so that the assembly of the post it notes would go quickly. I also then drew darker lines on the excel boxes that matched the grid lines on paper. Each paper grid is 16 post it notes (4 by 4). For these larger images we had one team make the lower half and one make the upper half and then tape together.
We also began our evening with a quick conversation about communication and played a game of backtionary as the opening ice breaker after our joys and concerns.
I had planned a Bible study to match the experience but we ran out of time and the kids wanted to create their own image (SPY) which was probably more fun than the Bible study! without the Bible study there wasn't a whole lot of God talk going on, but butterfly, fish, hand, church logo, and youth logo are all deeply spiritual so I guess we let it slide.
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