With 10,000 Post-it Notes, Kentucky teacher creates Muppets Christmas mural Liz Moomey, Lexington Herald-Leader
Dec. 23 WHITESBURG With 10,000 Post-it Notes, a Letcher Elementary School teacher created a The Muppets Christmas Carol masterpiece on the windows of the public library.
Tyler Watts, who teaches fourth grade, started making art installations in 2016 to help his then-first grade students learn math. As the kids put the 3-inch by 3-inch Post-it Notes on the floor, Watts started to think bigger. It was dead in the water when I picked it up, Watts said. It wasn t big. It wasn t trending when I started.
He started with the the Statue of Liberty and then The Grinch, which was an 800 Post-it Note project, at the Harry M. Caudill Memorial Library in Whitesburg.
Tyler Watts is a fourth-grade teacher at Letcher Elementary School in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
He applies different approaches to education like, for example, using post-it notes to teach math, according to KentuckyTeacher.org.
But that isn t his only use for those invaluable little notepads. He also uses them to create astonishing artwork artwork that apparently will be making annual appearances on the windows of Whitesburg s Harry M. Caudill Memorial Library.
It takes about 10,000 post-its to make what has become quite the attraction in the eastern Kentucky county that lies right on the Virginia border.
But Christmas isn t the only time you ll see his work. Nicknamed the Post-It Picasso, Watts has created some pretty impressive Halloween imagery as well.