Classroom Tips!

Happy Thursday & Happy Birthday to my marvelous husband!! This is one of the Molten Lava Cupcakes I baked at 11pm last night, so that I could wish him a happy birthday with one right at Midnight! It was a wonderful time together & I wish him many more years of love and happiness. He is an awesome dad and the best husband a girl could ask for.

Worried about class behavior? Do you have some outspoken students? Try rewarding GOOD behavior instead of giving attention to the bad choices being made. This is a pail in which I put names of students that I catch being good. Whether it's helping out someone else, sitting and working quietly, achieving something awesome...anything at all of the sort. At the end of the 2 weeks I pull a name and that person gets to pick from the treasure box. Our treasure box holds a variety of items (Special eraser & Pencil packs, Art Supplies, new books, craft supplies, games etc.) but the most popular items in the box??? TIME WITH YOU cards! They are simple postcards with fun outings on them, that take place outside of the home with a parent and just the winning child. The kids go MAD for these! It's completely obvious how much they love that one on one time. 

One negative about schooling year-round? The non-stop ringing of our doorbell with different neighborhood children asking my kids to go out and play. After the first week of this, I had the kids make a door hanging sign that will go on the backdoor. Now the kids know when to ring the doorbell and when it's not a good idea. I am slipping this through the laminating machine and then we will be in business for the rest of the Summer!

Looking for ways to display art work or to use as a drying rack? This cafe rod is sold inexpensively in a multipack and just hooked onto the wall using cup hooks. I used curtain clips to hold the art work and it's done! Simple, inexpensive and awesome! It allows for multiple small gallery displays throughout a classroom!

Brave the storm and a rainbow will follow. Enjoy every minute my friends!

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Wednesday Treasures...Recycled Fun

It's time for another installment of Recycled Treasures! This one was fully inspired by my husband. He was cleaning out our media cabinet and ended up tossing these in a bag, I asked him why they were there and when he said garbage, I knew exactly what had to be done! We saved them from their doom and had a project lined up by afternoon!

With the CDs, I had an idea for a 3 tiered dessert server for the kids when they play tea party and restaurant. A little glue, some cups and a pipe cleaner and they were all set. I gave them generic instruction and this is what they came up with!!  

That same day, they had to load it down with snacks and take off for a fun restaurant party in their room. It has been about a week now and it's still holding strong and it is played with daily!

After making our Crafty Center for the kid rooms, I knew I wanted something similar for my studio, but I wanted the kids to be able to help out. I took out all of the jewel cases and tried to get working from there.

This entire organizer is made up solely of jewel cases and tape! I then let the kids tape on the decorations on the outside.

 Had I made it on my own, I would have used mod podge to put photos of my family on it, but I decided to let the kids have at it.

Each section was made with a purpose, to fit exactly all that things that I needed to keep at hand while working in my studio space.

This is my absolute favorite piece, it's so much fun and a very versatile piece. I can't believe how sturdy it actually is and it hold all that I need! Even a small slot just for my scissors.

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