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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Mexican Murals

Posted by Paintedpaper at 12:22 PM

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HeleenOctober 6, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Love it!
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Hope ChellaOctober 7, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Beautiful! Your lessons are very inspiring. Thanks :)
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teeboOctober 16, 2009 at 7:39 PM
that's awesome!
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Paintedpaper: Ohio; I have been teaching elementary art for 16 years in Ohio. I love my job and watching my 650 students enjoy the process of creating. I love incorporating children's literature with art lessons, and anything to do with fun, colorful art. I am a mom to two lovable kids. I love to see fun projects and mix it up to create a new project. If you do post about a project please reference back to my blog. It is great getting comments and feedback to pass along to my students. Thanks for checking it out! Enjoy, Laura

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