Summer Projects & Freebies |
Who needs sleep when you can stay up till 2am working on fun projects, So what have I been doing, First of all, I have a new love. He came in the mail yesterday and I lovingly refer to him as Hot Stuff. No, no, I didn't meet some rich awesomely handsome guy. Hot Stuff is my new laminator and I think I'm in love.
Why have I not heard about these laminators before, Instead I have been at the mercy of the school laminator who I have a love hate relationship with. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it leaves wrinkles or peels apart, but most of the time, it's just plain broken.
30 something at Amazon. Yes, you have to buy the laminating pouches to go with it. But it's worth it in my opinion. I'm debating whether or not I want to bring this little baby to school or buy another one to leave at school. I didn't think the laminating pouches were too pricey either. But then I don't really have anything else to compare them too. Oh and the laminating pouches make everything nice and sturdy.
Have I mentioned I'm in love, Last picture, I promise. Let me look around the house and see what else needs to be laminated. Okay, on to what I've really been doing. I started selling items on TpT last July, on a whim, right before school started. I decided right away that I was only going to put things on there that I personally wanted/needed for my own classroom. That way if no one else wanted my creations it wouldn't be a big deal because at last I wanted them.
So I made a few things between July and September, then decided I was too busy and kind of forgot about making new things. Instead I just bought them from everyone else on TpT. Then in May of this year I decided that making things for TpT was actually fun, so I started creating again.
Then, I became an addict. I am a clip art addict. For me, the best part about starting any new project, is getting to shop around for the clip art I want to use. I know, its a serious problem. Haha, not really. But who knew clipart could be so much fun. So then I wanted to make more and more things, just so that I could justify buying new clip art.
That totally makes sense right, I have been spent the last 3 weeks, my entire summer so far, making as many things as possible for my classroom next year, using all of my fun new clip art of course. I've been creating new products as well as updating old ones.
An organized, colorful classroom makes me happy and clears up my mind so I can focus on more important things, like teaching! So here are some new products in my TpT store. Oh, did I mention that all of these are FREE! So get on over there and download your freebies. They're too cute not too. Just click the pictures to go to my TpT store and download. I don't know why I have become so obsessed with subway art.
I have always loved using a black background on a bulletin board because it makes all the colorful posters really stand out. I think the black background subway art reminds me of that. Either way, I'm a little obsessed. I saw some really cute subway art rules posters on TpT, but my school follows PBIS, so we have 3 specific rules for our entire school. These posters were actually made with my school's rules.
