Lessons With Coffee

I actually made this quite a while ago...>But never got around to blogging about it. I wanted to make hall passes because I HATE WRITING OUT PASSES.  We have a no pass policy at our school "unless it is an emergency."  I am a believer that if it is your time (ie, I am not teaching and you are not taking a test...) and you need to go to the bathroom, who am I to stop you? So I decided to make some uber cute passes. I got my supplies...You might recognize some of them from my birthday sign.  A plank, three (actually 4 but I knew I only wanted three) small planks for the passes, paint, brushes, wood cut outs, three pegs. I painted the main plank blue when I was painting my birthday sign.   I used the Martha Stewart Spray Paint Kit to make it blue in a jiffy. THen I painted my hooks. These were actually a pain in the ass to paint.  Then I glued them on.  I just used good old fashioned ELMERS GLUE ALL since I knew ...

Best thing about summer I get to be crafty!  So I am linking up for the very first time with 4thGradeFrolics and Monday Made it! Ok. If you saw this post you knew that I wanted to make this birthday board but for my class: So I went to Michael's and got all my supplies.  (I ended up not useing the foam letters as I wanted white letters...and the frog was something I painted in Mexico. lol) SO the first thing I needed to do was prime all my wood.  I like to do this because it is MUCH easier to make any color paint go smoothly onto white paint than on to wood grain.    I did not have any primer so I just used white spray paint.  I started with the large piece of wood.  And did short sweeping motions to get a nice even coat.  I did not worry about the back as it was going to be up against the wall.  I also primed all 200 of my tokens.  I decided that I was going to paint the ...