Monday Made-It

Hey everyone!  I's so excited for today's Monday Made-It.  Of course, I'm hooking up with the brilliant 4th Grade Frolics!

I don't know if you noticed **totally telling on myself here** but I missed last week's Monday Made-It and I'm very sorry about that.  BUT. . . . I think I will definitely redeem myself this week!

So let's get ready to ........ you know how it goes :)

This is not new . . . . they're all over Pinterest BUT they are practical!  I'm constantly in awe of how many kids still forget to put their name on papers.  And as much as I try to check them. . . . I need two more sets of eyes.  Now that I'm working with the "big kids" they are able to find & identify (hopefully) their own papers!  I still have to apply some cutesy ribbon but it's finished for the most part.

           

This was my awesome find at Michael's this morning.  I was there buying lots of things I don't really need some very important things and I stumbled upon this.  It's a miniature chalkboard / white board easel!  I KNOW!  It's simply adorable.  I found 1 pkg of puffy-decorative thingys ~ on clearance for 99 cents ~ and stuck those bad boys on there.  How stinkin' cute is this?  Oh, and you would think I paid a fortune for this lil gem.  Nope. . . 3 bucks!  It will go on the table next to my desk.  The chalkboard will face out and I'll use the white board for reminders.

      ~Am I abnormal because this makes me happy???  Wait, don't answer that!

This was totally inspired by Alison at Rockin' and Lovin' Learnin' . . . .

You can read all about how she made her's HERE.

Mine just needs a few more finishing touches ~ cute dots and maybe a few more paper circles ~ then it will be done.  I'll show you another pic of it in my classroom.  To make mine, I did the following:

     Materials:    Canvas (any size you prefer)

                         Black acrylic paint & brush

                         Scrapbook Paper

                         Ribbons

 I basically followed all of the same steps except I printed my name using fonts.  Well, not really.  You see, I didn't want to ruin it by writing on the canvas (I don't always think my handwriting is cute) so I found some clipart fonts I liked.  Then I put the letters I'd need onto a PPT.  Then ~ this is the tricky part ~ I reversed the letters so that when I printed them they'd be backwards.  I printed them on colored paper to match the bright-color theme of my classroom.  So then I cut out the letters and flipped them right-side up to put them on my canvas.  Sounds hard & time consuming but it really wasn't.  It looked a little plain so I added the stitching effect with black marker.  Again, I'll show a finished pic from my classroom.

{Can I just say I left to find the #4 button about 35 minutes ago.  Click-click-click,

and I totally forgot what I was doing.  Can you say, "squirrel?!?!" }

Okay, back to business!

                           

I f.i.n.a.l.l.y got these done!  Did you ever have something on your to-do list forever?  Well, this was mine.  I was hesitant to make them for my Kinder students but now the 5th graders will love them!  I'm going to put them in the reading area.

Made-It #5 

(Couldn't find the number 5 button.  But I was only gone 15 minutes this time!)

This is my FAVORITE one this week!

    

I was looking for comfy pillows for my reading center but they are pretty expensive.  After all the money I spent on other crafty things, I didn't want to fork out more $$$.  So I saw Walmart had these t-shirts (in MY colors) on sale for $3.00!  I originally thought I just buy travel pillows for them but then I saw they had regular sized pillows on sale too!  It was like winning the lottery. . . well not really but you get the point.  Aren't they cute?  They were SOOOO simple to make.  Took me about 30 minutes to do them all.

I should tell you I recently cleaned out my cedar chest with all of my bed linens.  I had about 10 sheet sets and 50 pillow case SETS.  I had them in the "donate" pile.  

So all I did was sew a straight line from the shoulder of the shirt to the bottom, then sewed the bottom shut.  I placed a regular pillow case on the pillow (yes, I stole from the donate pile).  You can't tell from the picture but they do match.  Then, use the "head-opening" of the t-shirt to put the pillow in.  The t-shirts were jersey material so they were pretty stretchy.  Now I can take them off to wash them too!  I had extra fabric from the crate-seats so I made some extra pillows.  Can't beat that!

I hope you enjoyed my Made-It's.  Head back on over to 4 Grade Frolics and check out the other cool creations!