Reusing Wedding Items!

Like many of you, I have boxes of stuff from my wedding that I just can bare to part with.  I have been married now for 4 years and this box of stuff just sits in my garage.  I probably will never do anything with it, but I can't bring myself to get rid of it.  I decided to find some way to put some of it to good use.

At my wedding I had these really cute kids' tables.  I would recommend that everyone have tables just for the kids because they stay occupied all night.  My husband made these little sandboxes that we put in the middle of the table.

It felt like a shame to just let these boxes go to waste so I created shadow boxes out of them and they turned out amazing!  First, I painted them.  Then, I hot glued some fabric in the background.  Last, I just decorated them they way that I wanted to.

On the adult table, I had vases with flowers and vases with candles in the center.

I used some of the flowers to make a wreath for my door.

Paper Bag Reports

When I taught 4th grade we did a lot of projects in class.  This was one of my favorite projects that we did.  First, I took all of the ways that land changes rapidly and ordered them from hardest to easiest.  I put the students in groups of 3 by ability.  I gave the lowest ability group the rapid land change that was the most common or the easiest one to do.  I just continued this until all the groups had a rapid land change.   The groups worked together to read and research information on the computer about their rapid land form change.  Then, they created these paper bag reports.  I gave each of them a rubric so that they could include all the necessary information to complete the report.

• Cover with a picture and the rapid land change on it
• 5 facts about the rapid land change with a picture on it
• 5 pictures from the internet of the rapid land change
• The cause and effect page including all the effects the rapid land change has on Earth or us

Pinterest Projects!

How many of you LOVE Pinterest?  I know I sure do.  I have often got lost in the moment and spent hours going through pins…thinking to myself this activity will be awesome to do with my class, I have to do this project, this would be so cool to have, how can I make this?

I am a teacher so Pinterest makes my life so much easier.  I can find and share resources with just the touch of a button.  But, there is a downfall to Pinterest.

I don't know about you all, but I have like 5,000 projects on Pinterest that I would love to do!  Every time I see something that I love I pin it and it just sits there.  Occasionally, I go through my pins and think to myself, "Man I should do this project!"  But who has the time to sit and do projects all the time.

I must say that whenever I can find the time, I do try to do some of the projects!  Here are some of my projects that I have completed.

 Took a Ball jar and a soap dispenser pump and hot glued them together to make this awesome mason jar soap dispenser.

 I took an old window, some fabric, and different knobs that I bought at Hobby Lobby to make a necklace holder.

 I painted a canvas different shades of blue and blended them together.  Then, I added chipboard letters that I painted to make this painting.  There is another side that is yellow and it says "I mean pizza" which is the first words my husband said when he met my family in high school.  They had just asked him if he liked pizza!

 I took mason jars and screwed the lids into the bottom of my shelf.  I also used Modge Podge to glue the scrapbook paper on the edges of these shelves.

 I took plate holders and screwed them into the wall to make holders for my scrapbooks. This is great for decoration and easy access for people to view my scrapbooks.

 I used Modge Podge to glue scrapbook paper to the front of these containers to spice them up.

 I took a hand towel bar and some pails to make containers for the dry erase markers and chalk.

 I used a curtain rod to make a place to display my children's artwork.  I need to put cardstock behind the pages to make it more firm so that the pages stay flat.

 I took a glass pitcher and made a vase for my bamboo out of it.

 This is a new and fun way to display your pictures.  I used twine and clothespins to create this.

I took a wood wreath and the flowers to my wedding to make this for my door.  I took mailbox numbers, painted them, and then hot glued them to the wreath.

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