Select six colors or less to use in your classroom. Bright blue and orange, along with tinted or pastel purple, green, and yellow are ideal choices that promote calm, focused activity from children of this age.
Remove the curtains from your windows along with any decorations or bulletin boards on the walls. If your blackboards or dry-erase boards detach from the walls, take them down. Remove any screws or nails in the walls.
Cover all furniture with tarps then slide it to the middle of the room. Cover the floor with tarps and cover the face plates of all electrical outlets and switches with painter's tape.
Ask your superiors if you could potentially have lead paint residue on your walls, only proceed with this step after you have verified that there is absolutely no lead paint residue present on the walls. Fit the pole sander with 120 grit paper and put on your dust mask. Sand side-to-side working from the top of the wall down towards the floor with medium pressure.
Change sandpaper after it becomes clogged with debris from scraping off paint dust. Do this for all walls you want to paint in the room then wash the walls off with warm water, using a sponge and dish soap. Rinse with fresh water and allow walls to dry to the touch.
Apply the primer and allow it to dry. Sand the walls again. Open your containers of paint and stir them thoroughly.
Dip the larger angled brush into your paint, so the bristles are coated a third of the way with paint. Tap the excess paint off against the inner side wall of the paint container. Paint strips along the edges of the walls and the areas where two walls join.
Paint strips along the corners and edges where two walls join. Use the angled paint brushes to paint along the floor and ceiling.
Pour paint into your tray until it reaches the grate. Set your roller down at the opposite end of the tray from the grate. Roll the roller back to the grate pushing down firmly as you roll.
Fill in the open areas with paint by rolling up and down again to make the shape of an "M." Start from the upper right corner of the wall. Roll across the "M" shapes to cover the entire wall with paint. Allow the walls to dry for three hours.
Repeat to add additional coats of paint until you reach the desired shade of color on the wall. Paint the windows using a sash brush. Move with the grain of the wood and work your way down the window casing to the sill.