Making Scrolls at Baker Park Recreation Center

This afternoon Ashley from Public Art Saint Paul and Kathleen from Wishes worked with kids at Baker Park Recreation Center to make their own scrolls. Kathleen brought one of Shen Pei's scrolls from Wishes for the Sky as a visual aid.

The kids worked in four groups.  They painted patterns on large sheets of construction paper as the backgrounds for their scrolls.  As we let the paint on the construction paper dry, the kids drew on large, white sheets of paper to create visual stories using markers and potato-stamp "chops."  Later this week the white paper stories will be mounted to the patterned construction paper and the completed scrolls will be ready to hang.