Easy Teaching Tools

Monday Made It: Crazy with Spray Paint, Numbered Clothespins, and Vegas

Since I have a plan for next year, my mind simply won’t shut off.  Normally during the summer, I travel to somewhere tropical and spend a lot of time at the beach. Maldives Tahiti Thailand   Thailand This summer, I’ve decided to create pretty things.  I’ve put away my passport and transformed into a Spray […]

Simple way to make a magnetic place-value board for your calendar!

I couldn’t find a place-value pocket chart at the teaching store this weekend so I created something similar.  After several years of experience, I found that my students weren’t correlating bundling straws for place value {like a lot of place-value pocket charts use} so I switched one year to using place-value manipulatives, since this is […]

How to get whiteboards for a bargain!

What student do you know who doesn’t love to use a white board.  We know how spendy they can be, so…I bought a huge piece of white/gloss hardboard at Lowe’s and the kind workers there cut it into 24  pieces for me.  It only cost 12.00 for 24 of them, what a deal!!!

Monday Made It Linky Party: How to dye clothespins

How to make clothespins prettier! I’ve seen so many bloggers prettying up their clothes pins with dye or washi tape. I use clothespins for everything from classroom management to organizing copies. So why not make them cute? I bought these at Kmart for about 4 bucks {they’re also 99 cents at my local 99 cent […]