About $50 for 50 boards...the sheets of masonite are large construction
size and he has the guy at the store cut them. I only buy white. They
last forever as long as you do not get the backs soaking wet alot. I
just realized that I have 30 at my uppper school and 30 at my lower
school, so I do not have all of them at one school and I do not need
more. They can be VERY heavy, I can't carry more than 10 at a time, but
the 1st graders can carry 2 easily.

On 11/06/09, moart wrote:
>
> 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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