I sent my husband to the local large home store and he cut 50 white
masonite boards that are larger than a place mat. The children
paint their paper on them and carry them to the drying rack and
slide it into a wire shelf. They stay on the boards until the
paintings are dry. This solves the messy table problem, the "how
to carry a wet painting" problem and the curling problem. I cut 50
so that while one set is drying on the rack, the other set can be
used. When they are in a pile next to the door the students know
to grab one and a piece of paper as they walk in because we are
painting that day. I just let whatever paint gets on them dry on,
it never has seeped into the next painting, but if it bothers a
student then they can wipe it off. Low maintenance.

>> On 11/06/09, SK wrote:
>>> How do you fight curling paper? When we use tempera, it
>>> looks a mess by the end. It looks worse than if we had used
>>> watercolor... Do you have a great paper you are using???
>>> All ideas welcome. :)

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