Great idea but how expensive?

On 11/06/09, HipWaldorf wrote:
> 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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