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We think a mural is an excellent activity for a festival or community special event for several reasons...

It’s a Warm-And-Fuzzy, All-Ages, Great-Eye-Candy, High-Throughput Activity
Our murals make for a really warm-and-fuzzy activity area, just like you’d expect. But you’ll be surprised how many age groups will participate in this. You’ll get great parent involvement, teens, seniors, really all ages. Murals are also great “eye candy” for your event site. And it can accomodate several dozen people at one time, and hundreds throughout the day.

Mural as a Sponsorship Activation
Most festivals who buy murals have found a business to sponsor the mural, and we’ll customize the mural with that company’s logo. Obviously, we don’t talk to the businesses in those instances. But in the instances where businesses buy murals directly from us, they give us great reports on what they think about the mural as sponsorship activation activity. They love the warm-and-fuzzy nature of the activity. They love that lots of age groups come paint together. They love the “stickyness” factor--that people stick around long enough for product pitches, samples, etc.

Customization
Putting logos and big text headlines into the mural design is the easiest part. We can also combine character sets, or even draw new characters and buildings, so the mural can really represent your event, your activities, or your town. Scroll down for design and customization examples.

Reusable vs. Single-Use Materials
Most festivals opt for Single-Use murals (either Single-Use Tarps or Paper Murals), as they like to customize the mural with this year’s theme, title, sponsors, etc. However, with our new Wipeable/Reusable materials, you can get a mural that you can reuse day-to-day, at next year’s event, or at other events through the year. See the next paragraph about how to make that work with sponsor logos.

How to get Multiple Sponsorship Years from One Mural
So here’s an idea for getting fresh sponsorship dollars every year. Instead of printing this year’s sponsor right on the mural, let us print it on a separate piece, which would attach with velcro. Then next year, we can just print you a new logo piece, with a new logo. We’ll do this for a very minimal cost, but you’re getting full sponsorship dollars for an activity you paid for in a past year.

Consider the Rigid Wipeable Plastic if you plan to mount it semi-permanently on one of your walls (either in a general area, or in a themed party room).

Click HERE to go to the Rigid Wipeable Plastic page.

Consider the Wipeable Tarp if you’d like to be able to put it up and take it down whenever you like. (Mural comes to you in one piece, with grommets like a regular banners. Rolls up and ships in a tube.)

Click HERE to go to the Wipeable Tarp page.

Both of the above mural types are reusable. Use Crayola Markers or Crayola Washable Paint or Crayola Tempera Paint, and wipe them with just water and a sponge. If you’re INDOORS, though, and would like to avoid water runoff while you’re wiping, then you’ll want to use the markers, which you can wipe with just a wet sponge.

Consider the Single-Use Tarp if you just need a mural for a one-day or one-weekend event. OR if you want to move the mural somewhere for display afterwards. This material is water-resistant enough to withstand rain during an outdoor event.

Click HERE to go to the Single-Use Tarp page.

Consider our Paper Murals if you just need a mural for a one-day or one-weekend event, and you want the least expensive larger mural. These can be up to $300 less than a Single-Use Tarp (or $450 less than the Single-Use Tarp and Rental Stand combo). But they need a wall to tack or tape onto. Our rental stand doesn’t work with these. This is a heavy-duty paper, but it‘s NOT waterproof. These are printed in 2’ tall strips.

Click HERE to go to the Paper Mural page.

Consider these for smaller events or parties. These are in a much lower price range, and they’re still great coloring activities using the same character sets as the larger murals. They just don’t provide the same visual that the larger murals do. These are paper, and are not reusable. They work best with crayons.

Click HERE to go to the Table Size Coloring Sheets page.

We have a BUNCH of designs we’d love to show you. The first group (about a dozen) are various festival themed designs. Below that are designs where we drew New Illustrations to specifically portray an event’s theme. Then below that are designs where we drew New Illustrations to show buildings, statues or landmarks from the town holding the event. Below that are links to our design seraches.

Below are several designs where we drew New Illustrations to emphasize a client’s theme. The first two are for the Issaquah Salmon Days, where each year we’d draw a new design to match that year’s theme. (They have a great sense of humor, so the “Born To Be Wild” design we did with salmon riding Harleys fit right in.) Below that is the Batteau Festival---Batteau’s being a specific kind of boat used in their area in the 1700’s. Below that is a design for the Lough Neah Food Festival---Lough Neah being a town in Ireland right next to a lake known for it’s eels.

Below are designs where we drew in buildings or landmarks from the town holding the event.

For the town of Sudbury, we drew their lake, train, buildings, and landmarks, along with children of specific ethnicities doing specific activities.

For Sugar Land, TX, we drew several local landmark buildings, statues, factories, their new airport, and a representation of their lake system that gets a lot of canoe usage.

For this festival on the US-Canada border, we included their mascot (bottom left), and drew in the distinctive bridge that connects the two border towns. We also drew all of these parade characters specificially for this client--a teddy bear parade, steel drums, hoop dancers, and Canadian Mounties (drawn as moose, of course).

For the town of Grand Prairie, we drew several local buildings, statues, and the Ukrainian dancers on the right in specific cultural dress.

For the town of Iron Horse, we drew the train that gave the town it’s name, the train museum building, their city hall, and a statue of an elephant for which the town is known. All the children were chosen by the event from our library.

	To search all our “Stock Designs”, as well as other combinations we’ve done for other clients.
	To search ONLY our Stock Designs (if you want the lowest price Single-Use Paper or Single-Use Tarp).
	To see more examples of how we can draw new items for your mural.
	To search all our Table Sheet Designs.
	To search ONLY our designs available for the lower “uncustomized” sheet price.