Classroom Reveal–Monster Style

I’m a bit late sharing, but here goes…
Here’s my hallway bulletin board where I’m going to display student work.  I ADORE the glitter scrapbook paper! 



The blue dots on this monster displayed my students’ names for Meet the Teacher night.



I decided to hang my wreaths next to each other above the door.



Here’s my unfinished work pocket chart.  I love having a visual reminder of who has work to be finished!



Clip chart & rules



So far, the monster homework tray has been a big hit.  My fingers are crossed that it keeps working well for me!  Below the homework tray, is my AR bulletin board.  The kids got to decorate their own monsters and they turned out really cute!



Here are my couch monsters hanging out waiting for someone to come read to them.



I hope your school year has gotten off to a great start!

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Another Monsteriffic Monday

Welcome back for another monsteriffic Made It Monday!

One of my teaching buddies shared a cute dragon quote with me.  Of course, I had to change it to fit my monster theme.  Click on the picture below if you would like a FREE copy for yourself.  I can’t decide if I’m going to frame mine or make it into a poster.


I like having a special place just for homework.  In the past my homework tray has been b-o-r-i-n-g!  I used a plastic letter tray that was a different color than my other paper trays.  This year I’m doing something a little different and, of course, I had to make it to fit the monster theme. 

I added the speech bubble to give the monster a little personality.  I made extra speech bubbles that I plan to switch out from time to time. 


If you have any suggestions for what my homework monster could say, PLEASE, PLEASE let me know!

Here’s a plant that I monsterfied for the occasion. 



I give my new students a water bottle at the beginning of each school year as a way of letting them know they can drink water in my class.  I typically create labels for the bottles on the computer.  This year I did something a little different.



These water bottles were much more time consuming than the ones I’ve done in the past.  I think next year I’m going back to designing the labels on my computer.

If you haven’t entered my Mastercard giveaway, click here.  Time is running out!

Also, be sure to check out all the other Monday Made Its at Tara’s blog.


Have a great week!

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Monday Made It–Monster Style

I’m back with another monster edition of Monday Made It.  It might take me all summer, but I’m determined to get my room monsterfied.  This week I worked on some of the basics – a clip chart and desktags.

I adore Krista Wallden’s graphics and when I saw her Put on a Happy Face clip art, I HAD to have it! 


In the past I’ve used a toddler pant hanger to hang my clip chart onto my closet door.  It wasn’t pretty but it worked well.  This year I turned my hanger into a fuzzy green monster.



Here are my desk tags:


I’ve really been wanting to buy a cute bottle of handsanitizer from Etsy.  You know the ones…cute vinyl stickers that say “Germ Juice”.  The only problem is that all the decorated hand sanitizers on Etsy are little 8 ounce bottles.  We go through waaay more germ juice than that in my room!  Here’s what I came up with instead:



I like how my little cyclop hand sanitizer turned out.  I'm off to work on some more monster projects.  Have a great week!

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Monster Pillows

Once again it’s time for Monday Made It!  This week I decided to make some pillows to keep my monster wreaths company.  I’m really getting a kick out of all this monster stuff.

Here’s pillow #1:




And, the other one:



I have a bright red futon in my classroom that the kids get to sit on during DEAR time.  These guys will be our new couch buddies.



I also made a set of rules to post in my room.  We are required to post the school rules in our classroom so, I change mine out each year to fit the theme.




Of course, I also needed to make another one of these signs.  This sign is just too important to leave out.  The idea for this sign was borrowed from Pinterest.  I can’t find the original pin so I can’t give credit to the appropriate person.



If you need a monster themed reporting vs tattling sign, click on the picture above.  It’s FREE! 

I’m sure I’ll be back next Monday with some more monster décor.  Have a great week!

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Monster Wreath

It’s been awhile but I’m back with another Monday Made It post.  I get a lot of ideas from Pinterest but the Monday Made It linky is what gets me motivated to get stuff done.  Thanks Tara! 
It seems like I just got out of school yesterday but I’m already working on my theme for the next school year.  After seeing all of Amanda’s (Teaching Maddeness) monster themed posts last summer I caught the monster bug. 
I saw this monster wreath on Pinterest and decided to make one myself.

I had so much fun making this one that I decided to make another.

I plan to hang these critters in the hall with students’ work but I need a really good slogan.  Anyone have ideas I can mooch??
These wreaths were super easy to make.  I cut about 75’ of tulle into 12” strips and tied the strips into knots around a foam wreath center. The teeth are made from craft foam that I attached using sewing pins.  The eyeballs are stuck on with toothpicks.
I’m off to plan next week’s Monday Made It!

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