Butterflies
and Flowers
Would this made you smile and feel good when you walked into the girls' bathroom? That was our intent with our Bathroom Beautification.
Today I am linking up with 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It.
Here is the Link....
www.4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com
Before the beginning of the school year, I though it would be fun to "beautify" the bathrooms at our school. So we had a "little contest" to see which bathroom in the school could be the cutest. I know it is quite hard to make a school bathroom look cute, but we tried. My good friend Dawn, who teaches 2nd grade just next to my 5th grade room, took on the challenge with me. Since the 5th, 2nd, and 1st graders share a bathroom we worked together.
This is the view when you enter the girls bathroom. Dawn had made and laminated these butterflies many years ago. We thought they would be nice, bright, and happy.
Dawn also had these stars in her classroom decorating stash. The words were added to made the girls believe in themselves. Some helpful students were around school and they made some little butterflies hanging above the window. You can see a pink butterfly on the right side of the picture. They seem to fly a bit when the window is open and a breeze comes in.
Some cute stickers were added to the stall doors.
Unfortunately, there was no prize in our contest, but we did have fun improving the bathrooms of our school a little bit.
I encourage all teachers and schools to do this type of project. It could make a difference to someone you least expect!
Have a WONDERFUL DAY!
Beti
Mosaic Cross
The Parent Group at our school had an auction. Each homeroom made an item for the auction. I had a box of various pieces of ceramic tile samples that someone had given me many years ago. They have sat in my classroom closet. At the end of year, in June, I look at the box and say to myself, " I can use these for a project one day".
Well, the time has come. One of my parents volunteered to head up our class project. I showed her the box of various sized and colored pieces. She said that she would think about how we could used them. Her husband kindly came into the picture and constructed a wooden cross to be the base for the mosaic cross. All the sample tiles were to large for our purposes, so a hammer was used to crack the tiles into smaller usable sized pieces.
Here is the cross after the students finished laying the small tiles into the
base layer of "cement". I'm not sure cement if the correct term.
The cross was grouted and painted with gold paint around the edges. Our beautiful cross was brought back to school for the children to add their signatures on the back of the cross.
As an auction item, we needed some more pieces to add interest to the bidders. Religious books of various topics for family members, a holy water font, and a glass mosaic candle holder were added to the basket.
I can not take credit for this project. Our wonderful mother of one of my students came up with all these ideas. Hopefully, this basket and cross will be a wonderful addition to a Catholic home.
Enjoy this day
the Lord has made,
let us rejoice and
be glad!
Beti
