Primary Activity

My calling this year has been a counselor in the Primary Presidency (we work with the kids under age 12.) One of my favorite activities was painting a wall that had some graffiti on it. For all the crummy walls around Cairo, I am really surprised that more walls don't have graffiti. This graffiti though was right by our church and was particularly crude so it was decided we would replace it with something more beautiful. Jill Smith, another counselor, is an amazing professional artist. She made the plans, organized the efforts, and the end result was fantastic. The kids get to see their hard work every time they come to the church.

Here they are getting their instructions from Jill. The blank wall had been prepped earlier in the day with white paint and the outline of the project.


The younger kids started in on the bottom half of the mural. They only needed to come close to staying inside the lines (or outside the lines as Jill explained to them about "negative space" in art.)

As expected, the younger kids became more interested in rinsing out their brushes (playing in the bucket of water.)

Then the older kids started in on the top of the mural.

Here's the incredibly beautiful finished artwork.