Monday Make It - July 14

I am linking up with  Tara for Monday Make it.  I get really sad when these weekly creative sessions are over with.

I have been busy creating a bunch of goodies for my classroom and at home for the grandbabes.  I love it when I can be creative, it helps relax me. First up is something that I made for my grandbabes.

I knitted 3 of these dresses for the younger girls to wear on the 4th of July,  but was only able to get a picture of one of them wearing it since we were gone for the 4th.  The yarn is hand dyed by a friend in Colorado.  Each stripe is a different ball of yarn.

I still need to get a picture of all the girls in the dresses, but I was so tired this weekend from the first week of school - it didn't happen

Next, is something I made for  my TK/Kinder Team with some help from a couple of friends.

I had these red bags, so I asked my new TK partner if she would put every one's name on them.  They are a nice canvas bag.  I added a calendar that I made for each teacher and a custom made cup that I bought from one of the PTA moms.  She personalized each cup.  The girls were thrilled when I passed them out at our first day meetings.  I need to make a couple more for my old First Grade Team, they were a little sad.

I bought the Teacher Planner from The Learning Effect and just used the calendar portion.  I, actually, have two different versions of her planner and love it.

I got permission from Tiffany to make the calendars, since I was prefilling in all the dates.

I filled in dates of all our Team's birthdays, staff meetings, track on and track off dates (we are a year round school), conference dates and meeting dates.  I printed them at home using a thicker paper - 32 pound.  It is not as heavy as cardstock but works well.  I laminated the front and back cover.  Staples spiral bound them for me. It took some time to make them, but they all loved them - so it was worth it.. 

I made something for my classroom.  The rosettes were fun to make, but time consuming.  I love the way they make this board look - so I would make them again.  Our custodian took a picture of the board to show his girlfriend, too cute.

I used 4 sheets of construction paper and a 6 inch circle of scrapbook paper for the middle.  The black one is 20 inches across and the yellow ones are 18.  They are easy to make, it just takes time to score and fold these many rosettes.

This yellow one is 20 inches, just a closer look.  We are doing a Disney theme this year, so you can see a Mickey paper middle.

Then I used my Cricut to cut 5 1/2 inch Mickey heads out of construction paper.  I took pictures the first day of school and we added them to the center of the Mickey head.  I forgot to take a picture, it is adorable. 

 Ignore the mess in front of the board, we were setting up the room.

Here is the board, I am in love with it.  It took some time, but it was so worth it.  You can see I made smaller ones for the opposite sides of the board

I am going to check out what everybody has been busy making this week.  Enjoy your summer, but think of me because I already went back to school.  Sigh.

Captain Bono

My Kinder team uses Bono the Monkey to introduce classroom rules.  My partner teacher made this little guy at Build A Bear, so we could take pictures of our kids holding him.  Isn't he the cutest thing?

 

Well, I couldn't let him be a plain monkey - we are doing a Superhero theme this year.  So, I made this little cape for him to wear.  Super easy - my hubby thought I was crazy.  I thought he knew me by now, giggle.

I would like to introduce to you - Captain Bono.  The kids thought he was the best thing. 



This little cape, now, has me spinning with about 10 other cape ideas.  Now, I need to find the time to make them.

The good news, after 3 months, I finally have internet again - woo hoo.

Class theme

I have to have a class theme each year. I change it every year because I get bored, sigh. This year, I am sharing a room with a kinder teacher that has NEVER, EVER had a theme

What??? I know crazy, don't judge her. She is the sweetest person, ever. So I gave her 5 themes, based on melonheadzillustrating clip art. She picked my least favorite, Superheros.  I made us lunch tickets. She is Wonder Woman and I am Super Girl. Then I ran out of ideas. Yup, I had nothing

Then yesterday I found some adorable fabric when I was at the beach. Ok, now we have two things. I made a trip to Target to find matching outfits for the grand kids and look what I found.

 They are perfect. Now, I can't shut my brain off. I have so many ideas, it hurts. I need to get all the shopping done today, since hubby is coming home tomorrow and he will be a witness to this madness. Stay tuned bat friends