Call Me, Maybe.

Hey ya'll. Good news, we had school three days this week!! For those who don't know we missed Monday and Tuesday thanks to Hurricane Isaac. But I'm happy to report that we got to go back Wednesday.

I'm also happy to share with you an awesome project from a reader of mine. Last week I got an email from Stephen who has a daughter in Kindergarten. His daughter uses whisper phones at school, and he wanted to make a whole set for her and her classmates to use at home. (How lucky is that teacher to have such an involved, caring parent???) Stephen emailed me with a few questions about my post. You may remember my whisper phones from the post:

His main concerns were:
1) Will the spray paint poison the kids?
2) Did the spray paint hold up?

And my answers are:
1) No.
2) No.

As long as you air them out for a few days before use, there's no reason the spray paint is harmful to the kids. However, even the made for plastic Krylon spray paint I used didn't hold up. It started to get chipped, and I had to respray them over the summer. I emailed this pin  to Stephen and told him that if I was going to make mine over, I would go the decorative tape route:

 

A few days later and he emailed me the cutest thing I have ever seen. Check out these whisper phones he made for every single kid in the class to practice at home with:

Can you read the tag?
"Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy. But here's a whisper phone, so call me maybe."

I DIE!!!!!

Summer Bucket List: Classroom Curtains

If you remember from my bucket list post, I wasn’t interested in making curtains for my windows (there are six of them and they are HUGE) but rather to cover up cluttered shelves, like this:

This was a fairly straight forward project. I ordered fabric I liked (surprise! It’s blue, green and puppies!!) and measured the height and width of my shelves. 

Then I cut the fabric to be about two inches taller than the book shelf, so I could fold it over an inch and make a pocket for a curtain rod; and a few inches wider on each side so that I could bunch it on the rod. 

Then all I needed to do was break out my trusty heat-n-bond, which I previously used on my bunting banner, and iron on a hem and a pocket for the rod. 

I folded over the top and used the heat n bond to create a pocket down the entire length of the curtain for the curtain rod to slide through

And TA-DA! Instant clutter cover!! 

Bucket List Progress: 

1. Supply Storage
2. Pendant Banner
3. Curtains
4. Brownie Points Magnetic Board
5. Spend time at the Pool/Beach 
6. Finish TPT Units – Back To School, Fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving,

 Christmas, Winter, Valentine's, Spring,  Alphabet Wake Up 

Work,Numbers & Shapes Wake Up Work, request for stamping 

centers unit

7. Crate Seats for Guided Reading
8. Listening Center Seats & Storage
9. Sight Word Sticks
10. Door Wreath

11. Little Books - Aug/Sept, Oct/Nov, Dec/Jan. Feb/Mar, Apr/May, 

Jun/Jul

12. Pocket Charts - Aug/Sept, Oct/Nov, Dec/Jan. Feb/Mar,

Apr/May, Jun/Jul

I do have one more surprise project up my sleeve, but pretty much all that is left is my listening center seats and TPT stuff. The TPT stuff I will continue to work on throughout the fall, but these last few weeks of summer I am much more focused on relaxing and soaking up the sun, than sitting in front of my computer all day. Can I get an AMEN!