Back to School Linky-Week 3-Classroom Decoration

It's time for my weekly Back 2 School linky with Miss. V's Busy Bees and Mrs. D's Corner. This week's topic is Classroom Decoration! Aghhhh I could seriously shop for my classroom forever. Seriously. I have a problem!

I have only been able to go to my classroom once this summer. That day being today! I taught first grade last year but went on maternity leave in February. I now get to go back to Kindergarten for the uncoming school year (my happy place) and that means a new room. I had one day to completely pack up my old room and haul it accross the school. One day. Let's just say it was a lot of throw these things in a box or on a rolling shelf and get me out of here. I was kicking myself today when I walked into this...

As you can see I did bring some helpers (my 5 month old included--who is not pictured because I'm holding her!!!) hoping to accomplish at least the furniture set-up. Yea not even close. We moved about half of the furniture before it turned into me holding Kenzi (who was suppose to be napping) and picking up the millon math manipulatives that hurricane Kylee got into. My husband stayed positive and that is the only reason ANY furniture was moved!

The best news is he said we can go back tomorrow to at least finish moving furniture. I'm pretty sure I need a babysitter for the organizing and decoration visits. Which brings me to this post...the rambling was justified right? 

Even though I have yet to actually laminate and hang I've been working HARD all summer on decorations for my room. The first thing I made was a huge bundle of bright chevron decor!

My printer has been put to good use this summer! I also made all of these fun projects that you can find on my Monday Made It posts :) There are lots of freebies too!

Stay tuned for a full classroom tour once I get a babysitter my act together and get some work done! Happy Decorating!

Monday Made It (July 21st 2014)

Time is ticking over here! I'm frantically trying to finish up all my projects so that I can get some much needed time in my new room. AGHHHHH...a teacher's to-do list is never done! At least I have Tara's linky to keep me on track! Seriously how did we stay motivated without this link up?!?!

First up I have been working really hard on making new classroom decorations. I finally bundled these products together and you can enter to win your own bundle at the bottom of this post!! 

I bought these cute trash cans at the dollar store a month ago & finally made coordinating labels. I love having a trash bucket at each table when doing crafts. It keeps the mess manageable and the students responsible. My trash helper is in charge of emptying the buckets into the recycling bin each afternoon. Then on Friday they get to dump the recycling bin into the school bin!

Last year I had two whiteboards in my classroom so I used the back one for my word wall. I loved the fact that I could easily write the words at anytime. However, my new room only have one whiteboard so I decided its time to join the Pinterest craze and make the interactive ribbon word wall. I am very exciting to get into my room and hang these against the black bulletin board!!!!

My last made it is for my table signs. This project isn't really complete because I still need to dangle them from my tissue pom-poms that are in my classroom. BUT printing and cutting them is still an accomplishment! Haha!!

Now it's time for you to win your very own Bright Chevron Bundle....just enter below! The winner will be announced on next weeks Monday Made It!! Good Luck!! You can click on the image to preview the product on TPT!

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Make sure you go check out all the other crafty teachers!!!

Monday Made It (June 30th 2014)

Finally!! I'm so happy to be able to link up with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics for another Monday Made It! I must admit I am addicted to crafting and it causes my house to suffer...the 1st step is admitting you have a problem!!!

Anyways, onto the fun.This week I made the VERY popular teacher toolbox. However I didn't settle for one....I made two! I bought them at Home Depot on sale for $16!!!

Although gray is one of my favorite colors (in home decor) it's not a color in my classroom. So I decided I would use some bright pink and lime green spray paint to brighten them up a bit.

After I chose my colors I got to work. I'm not the best spray painter but I'm pretty sure my Kindergartens won't even notice! 

Next up was label time! I searched for the perfect labels that would match my room but in the end decided to create my own so that they would match all my other decorations. I printed them out on shiny photo paper and cut away!

Once the cutting was over I used double sided tape to adhere them inside the drawers. You really can't see the tape unless you look VERY close. I really love the way the both turned out and can't wait to organize my desk at last!

Now it's pretty obvious what the pink toolbox is going to be used for but the lime green one is a little different. I plan on keeping this one accessible to the students. I will use the bottom large bins for extra/lost crayons. Then the top small bins are labeled A-Z to keep my letter cards for word building! The table drawers will hold that days letters paper clipped together for each student at the table. As the year goes on the table captains will be in charge of clipping the letters together as a morning procedure. I'm really hoping this will help to keep those letters organized!

Now for the EXTRA fun! One of you lovely readers can enter for a chance to win the labels I created! The bundle includes pre-made and editable labels for both the 22 and 39 compartment drawers. Enter to win by using the rafflecopter below!
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You can also purchase the labels by clicking the image below or here.

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed it!!!

Monday Made It

Good morning!!

I'm so thrilled to link up with Tara at 4th grade Frolics for my 1st Monday Made It! I'm pretty addicted to crafts so the fact that I can now document them is AMAZING!

So here goes!

I've really wanted to make a large magnetic board to put in the playroom and my classroom. So off to walmart I went. I picked up 2 huge oil drip pans from the car department. They were only $12 each! Then I snatched up some cute duct tape, command strips and tissue paper. 

The duct tape is to cover the words on the top.

This was actually the hardest part of the project and it wasn't even that bad! My favorite kind of projects are the easy ones!!! The reason this was hard was because I bought a patterned ducktape and I had to line up the patterns.

Next I made tissue pom-poms, except I only fluffed them up in one direction. They are more like tissue flowers!

After I made a green one I decided I wanted to add more colors. Then it was time to glue them on.

I just put a huge glob of hot glue on the bottom of each flower.

I bundled them up in the corner and then got to work doodling!

And now the finished project....

Stay tuned for a new post on how I plan to use this in my classroom!