Comments on: Prepping My New Classroom

By: Dale Vincent

Dale Vincent — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 08:35:13 +0000

So sorry for not giving you any tips for your locks and handle. Howeever, love your class room.

By: Treva Stokley

Treva Stokley — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 23:47:32 +0000

Love the huge letters, where can I get them?

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:13:00 +0000

I used chalkboard contact paper on my door this year and it came out perfect. All you need is an exacting knife and something to smooth it out as you go.

By: GRISEL LOPEZ

GRISEL LOPEZ — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 23:38:03 +0000

Love your classroom setup. Got some great ideas! thanks for sharing.

By: Ashleigh

Ashleigh — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 19:58:21 +0000

In reply to Jena. I purchased the templates from Schoolgirlstyle.com.

By: Jena

Jena — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:44:10 +0000

Hello Ashleigh,
I so enjoy reading your posts. I recently discovered your blog and resources early this summer, and I look forward to trying them out this school year.
Do you have these labels to edit, print, and purchase that I can find? Like “helping hands”, “behavior log” etc???

Thanks!

By: Ashleigh

Ashleigh — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:52:00 +0000

In reply to Jeanie Nowak. Thank you so much!!! I cannot wait to try this out! Unfortunately I cannot recommend the clothes pins. I bought them from Etsy, and over half of them broke before the year was out. I had some little ones from Micahels that seemed to hold up better.

By: Jeanie Nowak

Jeanie Nowak — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:51:31 +0000

For going around the door handle and lock there are two options. The easiest is to cut as close to those as you can, and then placing skinny border around them. The harder way is to carefully use a razor blade to cut the perfect hole. It’s easier for the lock, the trick comes with the door handle (which you need to do first, before the lock!). Use something non-permanent, like painters tape, to get your paper where you want it on the left and top sides of the door. Without tearing, pull the right side tight over the handle. Now give a little slice, right over where the base of the handle will be (be careful to allow for the paper to move farther right once it lays flat!), but just big enough for the skinniest part of the handle to slip through on the next step. Now remove the tape from the top of the door, and carefully pull your paper to the left until you can slip the handle through your hole. It won’t go all the way down, so be prepared to carefully slice the whole bigger little by little as needed until the paper is flat against the door except for the metal ring around the base of the door handle and the lock. Cut an X shape across the lock, a little less than the diameter of the lock, and make the same style cut below on the door handle base as well. Add extra slices, always coming out from the center and stopping just short of the edge of the lock/door handle base. Eventually you’ll have so many slices, that you’ll be able to start pushing the paper down over the lock and handle base, lengthing the slices as needed so the paper doesn’t tear (be careful to not make the slices too long–you want them the EXACT size of the lock and handle base, which you won’t really get on the right-hand side until the paper lays flat!). Once you can push the paper down enough to see how it will truly lie, carefully cut the paper in the circle needed to perfectly surround the lock and handle. Important: you still have not taped anything but the LEFT side of the door! Once the holes are cut perfectly, you want to carefully take your paper back away from the door lock and handle, and add double-sided tape (or Velcro or whatever you are using to stick the paper down) to the back of the paper in many spots around the holes you’ve cut and along the right edge of the door there. Pull it back flat, and stick the paper in place. Now you’re ready to secure the paper along the rest of the right-hand side of the door, then the top, bottom, and finally the left side can be have the painters tape replaced by something more permanent. Hope that helps! If you lived in so cal I’d come help you in person!

Now my question for YOU! I love your clothes pins! Did you just paint them and dip them in glitter for the sparkles? Can you show me one close up, or explain your process? Anytime I try to add glitter to something that will be touched by student hands, the glitter never lasts long! But those are so cute, I’d really like to do that to the boring clothespins I use!

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 13:10:59 +0000

Oh my gosh I LOVE your rug! Where did you get it?

By: Britney

Britney — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:06:39 +0000

I am a sophomore elementary education major, and I have been exploring education blogs for an assignment in my Education Technology class. I found yours and immediately bookmarked it because I love all of your ideas and I can’t wait to incorporate them into my classroom someday! Blogs like your inspire me to be creative and think outside of the box. Thank you for sharing 🙂