Decorated fence palings

A great art project for children is painting fence palings for the garden.

The fence palings are normally used for low garden fencing and can be bought in most hardware stores.

I bought my fence palings at Bunnings in Nelson.

Before the art class I sanded the palings and gave them a quick undercoat with white acrylic paint and then sanded the palings again to achieve a smooth surface for decorating.

The finished fence palings all different

 Before the children started to paint the palings I asked them to draw a design on paper first and incorporate all the different ideas for the fence paling.
Then the children used a coloured pencil to divide the paling into sections like head, body, legs.
The children started to paint the background first and the following session we added all the details.

We let the paint dry and then I sprayed the artwork with varnish so the finished fence palings can be placed in the garden.