This time of year is a busy, busy time. One of the things that schools often do in mid-to-late May is throw some kind of volunteer celebration for all those people throughout the year that have given of their time to make their community school a better place. Without volunteers, schools would be in a world of hurt. I can personally attest to the value of the volunteers I’ve known throughout my career and truly without them things would have been so much harder.
Recently, a teacher approached me and asked if I would make one of my collaboration posters into a “Thank You” poster for her kids to work on for an upcoming event. This poster is now FREE in my TPT store by clicking HERE.
Each poster, when put together, is approximtely 21 in. x 56 in. The exact size of the poster depends on your printer settings. The nice thing about these posters is that you can either hang them up side by side banner-style (like pictured above) or you can hang them up one on top of the other. 
Either way, when your volunteers walk into the room, they will surely love to see these posters and know that they were colored by the kids they have been working to help. Beautiful, professional posters are great, but at a school things made and colored by kids are SO much better!
Each page of the poster fits onto a regular 8.5″ x 11″ piece of paper. 
There are 24 pieces in each poster. 
The colors used in these posters are simple, but it’s important that you have bright colors–so if you can, provide your students with some fun, bright new markers, crayons or colored pencils!
The other nice thing about these posters is that you can just use the “Thank You” portion of it if you are celebrating some other group of people besides volunteers.
The steps of this poster are all broken down in the free resource, but in a nutsell it’s as easy as this: color poster pieces, cut out pieces, tape (or glue) pieces together and you are done! Each child gets to particpate and the final poster is big, colorful and powerful!
If you try this with your kids, send me an e-mail or #artwithjennyk on social media…I’d love to see the kids in action!
You can get this poster HERE.
I have tons of collaborative posters that you might enjoy. You can see all that I have HERE (or on the images below).
Best,
Jenny K.