I LOVE to think of fun ways to welcome my students to my classroom with my back-to-school bulletin board. Check out *some* past bulletin boards HERE.
This year, I took some inspiration from my husband who LOVES Minions (he's a little kid at heart). We watch Despicable me with our niece and nephews and my husband laughs louder than they do. ;) Sure do love that man! Anyway, I found a piƱata at Walmart that just CALLED MY NAME and then I found these cute Minions on TpT. Off I went to decorate!
I cut the headers for this board on my Silhouette Cameo (best crafting tool, ever!).
The names on the Minions are just Avery mailing labels. Easy-peasy.
The names on the Minions are just Avery mailing labels. Easy-peasy.
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Each year I do a Donation Door for our Back-to-School Night. Parents can come by and grab a sticky note off of our door that says the name of a school supply. They can send in the donated school supplies with their child to school the next day! It's an awesome way to get a variety of supplies for your classroom and not just getting 3,934 boxes of tissues. ;) {You can check out another donation door I've done, here}
I did print on SUPER sticky notes (found at Target) and I used a tutorial from this cute blog.
Arrows are vinyl and made with my Silhouette Cameo with KG Arrows font.
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A few years ago I found this CUUUUUTE behavior mangament idea from Growing Kinders. I've always done Brownie Points as a whole-class incentive, but this year I'm doing Mr. Potato Head. I'll pull off all of his parts (hehe) and if the students are working quietly, I will add one part at a time until he is all put together. Once he's all back together, there will be a MYSTERY prize that the whole class will win (lunch with teacher, extra recess, or maybe popcorn party).
With pretty much everything, I got mine on Amazon. Praise all that is holy for Amazon Prime. ;)