Finger painting for place mats.

Our class needed something fancy to set the table with for our snack.  So I put down a large piece of butcher paper and got some finger paints out and let the kids have fun!  Then I took it home, cut the large paper down and backed over 20 pieces with construction paper then had it laminated.  I would suggest double laminating the place mats!  Ours did not stick together well, and when the kids spilled it got the paper inside wet.  I chose to do one large piece of butcher paper instead of individual pieces of paper so it would not take very long to set the snack table up with who sits with what place mat.  So this was a group project and everyone was involved in the outcome.  We do not use them any more, but they sure were pretty and fun to make!