Hi,
My friend and I just finished a week of mural painting.  We painted some things with themes, and other things without themes.

We painted a biblical town square in the commom area. There is a temple and Lydia's tent (purple of course), some nondescript buildings, and a well. I'm making a semi-circle "well" to put up against the painting for a 3-D effect. I'm also going to put a bucket of water in it... it will be our offering well.

All the doors are painted to look like old wooden doors or are a continuation of scenery.

The janitor's closet door is "the potters house". Outside that "house" are a stool, a table with a pot and some broken pottery pieces. Down the short hall is another block building. One long hallway wall is desert and rocks with a distant ocean. There are double doors at the end of that hall. We painted iron gates on those, it looks like you are looking into a garden. On the reverse side of those doors are "city gates" with a "wood" welcome sign.

There are a lot of trees throughout.

Our other hallway will not have the village theme, it is kind of out of the way. In that hall I painted an Old Testament timeline (looks like a gameboard) and a map. The difference from Monday til now is amazing! And to be honest, the cement block pattern made it very easy to make buildings.

I also painted in our skills and games room. There is a bookshelf with all the books of the bible, the 10 Commandments, a listing of the Disciples and a diagram of Solomon's temple. I didn't paint anything in out art and media room, but there is a bulletin board that will be a backdrop for our "tv broadcasts".

The drama room has a nighttime skyline on one wall, and the rest of the scenery will be on bedsheets. Rotation comes to our Wednesday night program this week and to Sunday School as soon as the former curriculum runs out in March. 

Once we were done, everyone thought it was great.

Cheryl