This welcome board I made at the beginning of the year. It definitely reflects my love for sewing and cuteness! You can't see, but on each button I wrote the name of a student . . . so sweet! Tips: I love to use fabric for my backgrounds. Because fabric yardage can be steep, check out the clearance section of your local fabric stores. I bought 2 yards of this egg yolk-colored fabric for only $2! Do the same for pre-cut lettering, my letters came out for only $2 at Staples. The quilted stars border was salvaged from a fellow teacher. And the buttons and needle were made by me with construction paper. Total cost: $4 . . .fabulous!!
My kids wrote some persuasive letters to endorse their products. As much as I like using pre-made borders, they're a bit predictable and humdrum. For this border I used business letters envelopes (2 boxes from the dollar store), printed stamps on white paper, cut and pasted each stamp onto each envelope and had my students make address labels for each envelope. The pretty blue fabric was another $2 find and the little hands I made using construction paper. Total cost: $6 . . . Yowza!
This board was based on scenes from Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and was designed and constructed by my students. The kids painted 3 scenes on craft paper and sewed the illustarted pages to cardboard creating a hanging flip book. Each week, the students would flip a page to display a different scene. The children brought in the paints, craft paper, and cardboard, while I donated some velveteen fabric for the stage curtains ($3 for a yard), black fabric ($2) and gold trim (2 yards for $1.60 @ Walmart). Total cost: $6.60 . . . Super!
I'll be back with another sampling of pics and tips for your bulletin board endeavors. Hope you enjoyed this post! C U Soon, Sue
