Monday Made It- February

We are linking up with Tara from 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It!!

I'm gonna start with our home made it.  My daughter needed to make a Valentine box for school.  She is all about zebra print right now.  Her bedroom is done in zebra, hot pink, and teal.  So, in keeping with that theme, we decided to do Valentine's Day zebra style.  At first I thought we'd just wrap a shoe box in zebra print paper, throw a bow on it, and call it a day.  But, they hold a contest for these boxes, so we wanted to make it cute (I'm not competitive at all....ahem).  So my crafty voice started talking to me and I decided we needed to do something a little more.  :O)  Here is the finished product:

Here is how we made it.

 

Glitter Warning- the glittery bow left millions of pieces of glitter all over the kitchen.  But it's still cute and sparkly!!  :O)

If these directions aren't good enough, here is a link where I got the idea from, but I'm not sure if I did the same steps.  

I learned that duct tape is very versatile and easy to work with.  If we taped it on crooked, it peeled right off, even off the cardstock.  And if for some reason it hadn't, we could have just taped over it and you would have never known.  :O)

The trickiest part was tracing the side arch onto the lid to get the back end because the cardstock was flimsy and moved as I traced.  I ended up doing it too tall and then hot glued it to the box and THEN trimmed it once the duct taped cardstock was on for good.

(Did any of that make a lick of sense???  Craft picture fail.)

Here's my made it for school:

These are the dominoes that I made last year for the causes of the American Revolution (the domino effect- get it?).  I made the line and clipped it up.  We aren't supposed to have anything hang.  Oh well.  If Mr. Fire Marshall comes I'll just play, "Whaaaaat?  We aren't supposed to hang a string?   Well I declare, I had no idea!" says Amanda in her Scarlet O'Hara voice.

This is a picture of my Road to Revolution Bulletin board.  Last year I had one really long board.  This year I have 2 short boards.  I made one long timeline last year but now I'm splitting it into causes and then the actual revolution.  I put the dates and the line up.  The sheets were printed with the names of the events.  The students work in pairs and draw what happened on paper and then we put that up with the date.  They LOVE doing this and it's a great visual reminder of what happened.

Here are some Valentine centers that I printed, laminated, and cut out.  I'm super excited to use them!!  If you'd like to know where I got them from, click here for that post.

Last, but not least, I got these Monster Fraction Centers from Holly at Fourth Grade Flipper!  We are just diving into our fractions unit so they are going to have fun with these!!!  They are so cute!!

(The super cute glitter borders and hearts came from The Bubbly Blonde!)

Phew!!  I think that about covers it.  I hope you're a visual learner because this post is full of pictures!!!  Head over to the linky to find more ideas from Monday Made It!

So, what do you think about the Valentine box?  You can be honest!!  I can take it!!  ;O)

*Amanda*