Tuesday Made It - Part 2 (Evidence of blog stalking!)

I'm adding to my post from yesterday.  I really wish I could take credit for having these awesome, original ideas... but really I am just jumping on the band wagon and keeping up with this year's latest and greatest "classroom must-haves!"

Project #3
White Boards (Take 2!)
I started to add duct tape to the white boards to hide the chipped edges. I need to go get another roll!  The checker board pattern makes it really easy to line everything up evenly.  Thank you Mary at Teaching Special Kids for the idea!

Project #4
Teacher's Toolbox
I just couldn't live without my own!  I got a free download for the drawer labels from Laughing with Lane.  I think it came out cute, cute, cute!

Project #5
Crate Seats

All great blog stalkers must make these this year!!!  My mom helped me with one and that one came out the best.  My husband helped me with the rest. I didn't have the patience to get them just right and my husband was having fun with the staple gun - I might have lost a finger if I didn't move quickly enough!

Tuesday Made It?

Ok, so I know it's Tuesday but I just didn't get it together in time to post yesterday!  I drove 8 hours from Reno to Boise, rushed my daughter off to gymnastics, and then realized that leaving my computer unattended with my husband and step-sons was a really bad idea!  An hour of tech support this morning took care of the problems, but they are no longer allowed to use the computer unattended!!!

So now that you've heard my sob story... here are a few of the things I (ok, my brother and I) made over the week!

Project #1
Student white boards!

Because there was literally nothing in my classroom I've been spending quite a bit of $ trying to make sure I have enough to teach with!  Luckily for me, my brother has all sorts of power tools!  We got a 4' x 8' piece of hardboard at Lowe's for $10.60.  Matt was able to cut it into 32 - 12x12" squares, a nice class set!  The edges chipped more than we thought, but they still look pretty darn good.  My sweet brother was even nice enough to make 2 sets - 1 for a friend of mine :-)

Project #2

Whisper Phones

Some people call these phonics phones, but I've always called them whisper phone, ie. students whisper into them and can hear themselves reading.  I'm planning on putting them in their D5 good fit book baskets.  I got this wonderful idea and tutorial from Classroom DIY.  I love the Paul Frank monkey duct tape!  I also have black and white checkerboard tape.  That was my brother's pick, which made me laugh because he was obsessed with O.P. checkboard hats and the checkerboard slip on Vans when we were kids... I'm totally dating myself now :-)

We tried cutting the PVC by hand with the irrigation PVC cutters, but it was too hard, so we used a chop saw to cut the PVC pipe into 3 1/2" lengths.  I bought the elbows in the contractor bulk packs of 10.  That made them only .18 cents and they didn't have the bar code on them (I'm crazy and that sort of thing drives me crazy!)

Be sure to stop by 4th Grade Frolics and check out all the other great Monday Made It items!





Monday Made It

I'm so excited that I finally get to participate in Monday Made It with 4th Grade Frolics!

I made my own number magnets and an attendance board!  I think it all came out super cute and it was easy too!

These aren't the best pictures because they were taken on my phone.  Here's a close-up of the magnets.

To make the magnets I cut out circles using scrapbook paper and a 1" scalloped edge circle punch.

Then I put number stickers with a clear background in the center of the circles.

I used multi-use glue to attach the circles to glass gems I found in the floral section at Hobby Lobby. 

Tip: Put the glue on the flat side of the gem and the put the circles on the glass.  When I tried it the other way the glue stuck to the table and I couldn't pick it up!!!

This glue dried quickly so I was able to glue the magnets to the back right after I finished attaching all the number circles to the gems. 

Tip:  You will need to keep the magnets away from each other when you glue them to the gems.  They try to attach to each other and pull the magnets off of the gem before the glue is dry!

My brain is clearly still in summer mode because I made two sets of 30 magnets (I'm going to make a Where Am I? board too) and bought a pack of 50 magnets!  Oops!

All of the above products were purchased at Hobby Lobby.

I got the black magnetic board, stickers on the board, and decorator tape at Michaels.  I wanted stainless steel boards, but couldn't find affordable ones!

I hope you like this idea!  I'll have more next week.  I'm in California visiting my family and I have a few projects for my brother and his table saw :-)