Monday, July 16, 2012

Classroom Crafting

Keep Calm and Craft On!!! I'm so excited to link up once again to Tara's (over at 4th Grade Frolics) Monday Made It linky party.
Classroom  Project #1: My first project to accomplish was name popsicle sticks. I saw a great idea on the KinderTastic blog, which I have been wanting to try out. In order to keep track of which kids have been called, the sticks are painted two colors. Once a student has had a turn, their stick gets turned over so the other color shows. I love this idea, because you don't have to carry around another container and you don't risk losing any.

Original Inspiration from KinderTastic
Here are my assembled supplies for this project:
Basically you need two bottles of acyrlic paint, a ruler, a paint brush, and popsicle sticks.

Finished Product:

Next up I will be cute-ifying the little Target bucket with "Lucky Duck" clip art and a label to hold these fun sticks. Once I have a confirmed class list, I will be adding the kiddos names to the sticks.

Classroom Project #2: Although I am not a huge fan of worksheets in kindergarten, I do think that some times worksheets have there place! Instead of having pages and pages of completed sheets, I plan using an awesome idea I found on Classroom DIY- dry erase boards made from report covers and duck tape.
Original Inspiration from Classroom DIY
These were so easy to make and can be used in so many different fun ways. I mainly plan on utilizing these during center rotations, where students can fill out a practice page using a Vis-a-vis Marker and then erase it for the next person! I love this concept, because 1) there is less paperwork to keep track of and 2) less paper= better for the environment. These can also be used as student response dry erase boards by placing a plain sheet of paper or for handwriting practice by placing a lined sheet of paper.

Supplies- Fun Patterned Duct Tape (which was on sale- 2 rolls for $6 at Michael's this past weekend) and plastic report covers

Here's my finished product!


Thanks for stopping by!!! Happy Monday and Happy Crafting!
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5 comments:

  1. Cute stuff! I love how you painted the sticks two different colors to help determine who you've called on. Great idea? I think I'll have to do this, too!

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  2. I love your sticks, the two colors would be helpful instead of two cans. Thanks for sharing, it is so fun getting new Ideas from other teachers.

    Jill
    Bubbalulu.blogspot.com

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  3. Love both your projects! I've been making some dry erase sleeves too but kinda cheated and bought some already made and am just adding the cute duct tape. Thanks for linking up:)

    4th Grade Frolics

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  4. I use two colored sticks also. My problem was that I kept forgetting whether I was going from turquoise to orange or orange to turquoise. For Christmas I received a couple of clothes pins that were decorated with turquoise on one side and orange on the other from one of my mom volunteers. Now I just clip on the clothes pin and even if I use the sticks for several days I always know which color I'm turning.

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  5. I use two colored sticks also. My problem was that I kept forgetting whether I was going from turquoise to orange or orange to turquoise. For Christmas I received a couple of clothes pins that were decorated with turquoise on one side and orange on the other from one of my mom volunteers. Now I just clip on the clothes pin and even if I use the sticks for several days I always know which color I'm turning.

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