Crayon Art

These are blowing up all over Pinterest and the internet in general. Annnd then my neighbor made one for right outside her room at school.

I decided I'd make one for outside my door too :) , but wanted to do something a little different. I thought about melting only greens to make flowers like this: 

But then I found a flower one someone had done that I liked even more!

So I went to work! I picked up a canvas, some grey acrylic paint, letter stickers and a couple boxes of the 64 pack crayons since I only wanted to do a few colors with it.

I put stickers down for my name and painted over the whole canvas with the grey paint.   Then I peeled the stickers up and touched the letters up with white paint where the grey seeped under it (I should have done a coat of white first.. oh well! Then I sorted my crayons into reds and yellows for the two flowers I wanted to do. I also peeled off the labels and broke them in half.. kind of like they did in the one above. Then you just glue them all down and turn on your hair dryer until they melt!! After I melted the crayons as much as I wanted, I let it cool and then glued down some buttons for the center of the flowers.

Here's the finished product!

Teacher Toolbox

I'm definitely not the first to come up with this, but I sure like mine the most! This project is pretty self explanatory.. especially after you've Googled the mess out of them and seen every person's version!

The labels I found somewhere on the web from someone who posted them. I changed a few of them to meet my "needs" of the tool box and then printed them on some pretty tan scrapbook paper. I used glue dots to attach the labels to the background pieces which I cut to fit the size of the drawers and also for the little piece that fits under the handle. I just used regular scotch tape to affix the background pieces to the inside of the drawer.

SO excited to use this! :)

All of the scrapbook paper I picked up... :)

All of my supplies: Scrapbook paper, labels (though I reprinted them
on different paper), scissors, tape, glue dots, sharpie and a pencil!)

Paper cut for all of the large drawers!

All DONE!

Phonics Phones

I owe this all to Pinterest. (Which I feel is the basis for most people's 'craftyness' these days lol) I went to the actual blog it was from though, which is classroomdiy.com. On her post she has a video guide, but I'll put everthing here too :)

What you need:

• 3/4" PVC pipe (it comes in 10' sections)
• 3/4" PVC elbow joints (they do come in packs of 10... very handy and a smidge cheaper!)
• AWESOME duct tape

Before I left Lowe's, I had a nice man cut my PVC pipe into 4" pieces (gave me 30 total pieces) instead of 3.5" like on classroomdiy.com. Only reason I did 4" was so I would have 30 whole pieces with no awkward leftover parts. :) If you tell them you're a teacher the guys in there are always happy to help! The man who cut the PVC for me was from Statesville, NC.. of all places! AND he and his wife live in the same neighborhood we are in out in Surprise. SMALL world.

Also, Make sure you get enough elbow joints. I got 3 packs of 10... annd realized when I got home that I would need 3 more packs of 10. I'll be going back tomorrow.

What to do:

• Put an elbow joint on each end of the 4" piece.
• Hubby suggested some glue to secure it, but we figured out quickly that they fit on nice and snug!
• Thennn wrap with duct tape!

the duct tape colors i picked out :)

It's really that simple. Please please make these for your room if you have a young little class!