Fun, Free, TpT and Family

 Hey EvErYoNe! Wow, I can't believe it is Saturday evening already. This week has gone by really fast. I spent  lot of time working in my classroom this week because this time next week we will be leaving on a 10 day vacation and when we return I only have a few days before we officially report back to work. I am trying to gets lots done before then because I don't want to come home and feel disorganized.

 I mentioned the other day that I was waiting for a special parcel to arrive. Here it is:

This is box of super awesome school supplies provided to me free of charge from CraftProjectIdeas.com to enjoy and try out. Well, to start with I want to say the size of the box floored me as I was expecting a little bubble mailer or something . . .Here are some photos of the great things in the box . . .

desk tags, note pad, postcards, trim

incentive charts, stickers, name tags

baskets, posters, file folders

bulletin board trim

ink pads, flash cards, erasers, bookmarks, stamp, pens,


WoW! Lots of really cute stuff. Guess what? These items are available at Walmart for 88 cents each. Yes! Less than a dollar per item. Pretty amazing to get a pack of bulletin board trim for example for 88 cents!

I have been making some signs/labels for my classroom this week and I wanted to share them with you. Now, I want to warn you that the font I used may not be everyone's cup of tea. I just found it, think it is cute and it doesn't bother me at all. If you like it also, then feel free to download and print the following signs:

Click here to print signs if you like the font!

In addition, I have listed some binder organization sets in a few new patterns in my TpT store.  . .

Here is the TpT link!

and just for fun . . .

Our "fur-baby" watching dad paint a cupboard in the yard . . .

Our "boy-baby" who is turning 20 in one week. . .

Have a great rest of the weekend to all . . .

Monster Family Glyph

Have you seen these darling shape monsters?

Check out Mrs. Lee's Kindergarten for the original idea.

I just loved how they turned out, and I really wanted to make some in our class. The only problem was we were studying families not shapes, but it was sort of close of close to Halloween so I thought I could stretch it and make it a "Monster Family Glyph."

There really isn't a pattern for it. I did trace large shapes for the kids to trace and cut out a bazillion circles for eyes (note: don't try to use construction paper on the cricut, it doesn't cut very well.)

Here is what my "monsters" looked like.

The kids chose their favorite color, and their favorite shape. The eyes were the number of kids in their family. For their hair they had to pick enough strands to equal the number of letters in their last name (I didn't care what color). For the mouth if they were a girl they needed to cut a semi-circle, and a boy left them as rectangles. The number of teeth equaled their age (this is where the holiday interfered a bit-there were lots of dracula teeth). For the legs they each got a red strip (mom), blue strip (dad). Then, if they had a step mom they got a pink and a step dad they added a light blue strip. I just gave them a rectangle of black to make a "foot."

It was fun enough, I want to do it next year.