One More Week and Monday Made It!

The countdown officially begins!  I report back to school in 10 days, and I still can't get into my school! Yikes! Panic beginning to settle in! Okay, I'm just going to have to be positive about this!- There is absolutely nothing else I can do, but be positive!-

I was able to be a little creative this past week.  I went to Hobby Lobby and found some great crafty items and I made two simple projects to share with you this week with 4th Grade Frolics Monday Made It.

These are the items I found ....

I started with the letter B.  Two years ago I made a letter for all of my first grade co-workers, as a beginning of year and welcome to first grade gift! This is what they looked like....

I used fun scrapbooking goodies, and stayed true to my love for the primary colors. Well...I wanted to make a new letter B to coordinate with my new color scheme....so....

I painted the backside an aqua color.  I used to use newspaper to paint and glue on, but wax paper really works better. I can reuse it and even wipe it clean!- I also like to use old extra plastic lids as paint holders, they are easy to clean and reuseable....

 I cut  strips of paper, and

 glued them down.

 The fun part is cutting the excess paper with a box cutter blade!- Okay not so fun, but it gets the job done!

and  then added my name with stickie letters, some ribbon, and embellishments!  

What do you think?  I know you probably can't see well, but the paper on the right side is actually little rulers! (I hope you can't see my little mistakes, either!)

I also "crafted" the little glass jars.  My plan is to use them to house paperclips, rubber bands, and either pencil topper erasers, or small binder clips.  This project was simple.  I found matching quatrefoil pattern ribbon to wrap around the jars and hot glued them into place with a flower embellishment! I can't wait to fill them up!

This week I plan to work on crafting the white photo boxes for use in the classroom, and hope to share with you next week.  I also hope to get in to my class!- 

Oh and don't forget TPT is having their BTS sale! Everything in my store is 20% off and add the TPT code for a total of 28% savings!

BTW....I had some time to sneak in Iron Man 3 and The Avengers this past week! I must say Iron Man 3 is my favorite so far... :)