School Stuff

Well, apparently it is a bit tough to manage my first year as a junior high teacher with a crafty life style and have fallen drastically behind my blogging dreams... But I figured it would be best to try posting again, and what better way than with some school stuff!

So in honor of the new school year, I thought I could post some fun crafty like things from my hip new classroom. Drum roll please...

My super cool and totally smashing, orange file cabinet! Thanks to a thrift store find and my husband's (and his coworkers') help, I was able to transform a totally drab piece of furniture into an awesome treasure for my room!

Next, I have an awesome paint-chip calendar which functions as a dry-erase board. I will post a tutorial on how I made it in the next couple days (hopefully)!

Last, but definitely not least (or final), I have my library "Read" bulletin board! This, I made after visiting a fellow teacher's room. Instead of using butcher paper, I covered this section of the wall with book pages from a thrift store find (I just looked for an appropriate book with a lot of pages and words). I chopped off the spine using an industrial paper cutter (if you don't have access to one of these - take your book to Office Max or Office Depot and they can do it for you). Then I took orange tissue paper, rolled it lengthwise and scrunched and stapled it as the boarder - a super cheep alternative for store-bought boarder. Then I made a coordinating pennant banner with the word "READ!" on it. I really like this, and it adds a fun, whimsical feel to my classroom library!

 So, I did it! I finally made another post! Hopefully it won't take 2 months for my next one. :)