I am linking up with 4th Grade Frolics for Made it Monday. I've been working a lot of little projects all weekend. Here goes....               My clothes pins needed a makeover. The striped ones have magnets on the back and are for my board in the classroom. The orange polk dot ones have a push pin on the back and go on my hallway bulletin board to hang student work.        Birthday straws! A friend found the fun straws at the dollar store for me. Print, laminate and cut out the balloons, a little tape and a cute, inexpensive birthday gift for my kiddos.       I teach Kindergarten. That means anything and everything can be put to use. I added alphabet stickers and mod podge to more clothes pins. These will go in the word work center. The kids can clip the letters to word cards to spell the words.     That is it for now. I am working a several more little things, but the......

I enjoy having the students make a craft for Mother's Day. I was looking for something easy this year. I did a quick search on Pinterest, come on... everyone does it. Voila... easy, cute, personal Mother's day projects; more than I needed. Hand print flowers!   They were super simple to make. I used large non-toxic ink pads for the hand prints and let the kids paint the stems. On a side note, if you want to make sure the kids are washing their hands; use ink. Some washed their hands 3 or 4 times. And that was after being told the ink would be there for a day or two. Every kid painted the stems differently, the above flowers needed lots of leaves, some only had one stem, and one had stems going to the side of the page. All were perfectly adorable.  To all the Mothers, Aunts, Grandmas, God-Mothers, and other special ladies...  Happy Mother's Day ...