paint on clothes !

I am not only a teacher, but a Trinity mother. Seeing paint on uniforms does not make me happy !!! I am trying so hard to remind the students to Be Careful. I have looked in to smocks to wear, but the challenges are the following:

don't cover sleeves,

don't cover collars,

don't always cover skirts/shorts/pants,

cost to purchase a smock per student (they will have paint on them from class period to class period),

where to store 108 smocks in our classroom.

I do have several students who have brought t-shirts to pull over their uniform when we paint ! I am going to encourage all students to bring an OLD men's dress shirt. I am going through John's closet (and his dad's) this weekend !! I will also check with some of the tuxedo rental stores for Old shirts that they may let us have. Let's see what we can come up with to SAVE OUR UNIFORMS !! This shirt style works great when you can turn the shirt backwards. It will cover collar, sleeves, shorts/skirts and will keep art costs down.

I am going to use a clothes line and good old fashioned clothes pins to hang shirts. I can put brown paper on wall behind to keep paint off wall. Hopefully this will solve our dilemma and keep our artist creating some great artwork without the expense of a uniform !!