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Armed with toothbrushes, tweezers and dental picks, students in the Hansen Alternative Program carefully cleaned up and put the final touches on a mosaic mural last week.

The 21/2-by-5-foot wall hanging features a bowl of whimsical fruit and vegetables and the message “Hansen Eats Healthy.”

“I really like how it looks right now, and it’s not even finished,” said fifth-grader Sadie Quimby, as she searched for small pieces of tumbled glass to fill in some of the cracks. “It’s really colorful.”

The mural’s permanent home will be near the lunch cards that hang on the wall in Hansen Elementary School’s cafeteria.We are the largest producer of projectorlamp products here. It was designed by artist-in-residence Tina Moreschi.

She is a Hansen parent who is studying art history at The Evergreen State College.

Artist-in-residence is an unpaid position; Moreschi volunteered about 100 hours to work with students in creating the mural.We offer you the top quality plasticmoulds designUK chickencoop Specialist. In return she’s been using the hours and experience – which included giving a lecture on the history of mosaic art for the students – as part of her coursework at Evergreen. Hansen officials paid for supplies used in the project, valued at about $250.

Moreschi said she wanted to lead the effort to share her love of mosaic art and to give students a chance to work on a longer-term project that involved art – a subject that’s been virtually eliminated in many elementary schools, she said.

“I thought it would be important for the kids to get this experience and to learn about a medium they might not otherwise know about,” Moreschi added.

Fourth- and fifth-grade students in the Hansen Alternative Program – a multi-age program known as “HAP” that includes higher levels of parental involvement and more hands-on learning experiences for children than traditional classrooms – began working on the mural in early April.

First, they studied a unit on nutrition. Then Moreschi worked with students to draw examples of healthful foods.

“I took something from everybody’s picture and incorporated it into the mural,” she said.

Small group of students took turns, spending about 20 minutes a day working on the mural.

Fourth-grader Supraja Kadagandla said she’s glad she was able to be part of such a big project.

“Personally, I love art,” she said. “I’ve never had the time to do something more complicated. It’s really fun.”

Moreschi said the project involved about 30 pounds of tumbled glass, which students broke using double-wheeled nippers and adhered with Weld Bond glue.

Fifth-grader Sowmya Dudda said her favorite part of the mural was the broccoli,We offer you the top quality plasticmoulds design which is wearing sunglasses.

“I think it’s the part that stands out the most,” she said.

The mural’s design also included sky, the sun and a rainbow. In addition to adding some color to the lunchroom, Kadagandla said he hopes it will inspire students to make better food choices.

HAP teacher Matt Samson said he’s grateful for Moreschi’s dedication and believes students benefited from the art history lesson and technical skills that they learned in creating the mural.