Senior Year Ornament

Every child loves to think, wow as soon as I make it to senior year I am on top of the world, I am the big dogs at school, I am almost done.  I won't lie I have thought some of the same things.  So as I put my order in I got my decorative tassel.  Well I don't have a car so what am I to do with it, well how about a holiday ornament.  It keeps it from being around the rear-view mirror fading and out of harms way in bedrooms or a box.  This was definitely an easy project, that is once I found something with a large enough opening to fit the numbers through, and with the bottle it still was not very easy.  A bit of elbow grease was still needed!

Well I hope everyone had a great Holiday season and I wish everyone a Happy New Year!!

Love, Bekkah <3

BOO

So of course I got this wonderful idea from Pinterest.  You should follow me!  So I made these for about 6 bucks maybe a bit more with candles.  I started by taking a permanent  marker, I tried sharpie and it didn't work, to write the letters on each cup.  When you write on them make sure the handles are going the same direction.  If you mess up just take a wet rag and wipe it off.  To make sure the writing doesn't go anywhere put the cups into the oven at 150 F for 30 minutes after you write on them.  Once they have cooled you can fill them with candy corn.  At the top you can put a candle.  I set a white candle on top of each.  I think this is super cute and I hope you do as well.  Thanks let me know what you think! :D

~DIY or Bust~
<3 Bekkah

Fall is in the Air!

So my mother received this burlap bean sack from someone that she worked with a few years back.  To put it to use we decided to make a fall decoration.  We set a Styrofoam circle on the bottom.  Then filled around it with beans.  I think that parts funny because it was a bean sack, got empty, and had beans put back in it.  We then stuck the arrangement of (fake) plants into the Styrofoam.  To wrap it up we put a red ribbon tie around the top to keep it all together.  Well I hope you enjoy this and maybe even try it out.  Let me know what you think or how yours turn out!

~DIY or Bust~
<3 Bekkah

Behavior Charts in 1st Grade

So as the year ended and we were packing up my moms first grade classroom I realized how many things I had made for this school year and thought I would share some of them.  First, I thought I would share how she does her behavior system.  She has charts that we make, usually made to match the theme of her classroom that year. This year we did a sports theme.  She also makes one of these charts for her lunch count.  She uses red and blue (hot and cold) strips of paper to determine who is eating at school and who is not.

Items needed:

• poster board
• library card pockets
• bulletin board letters
• rubber cement
• extra pictures for effect (optional)

Steps:

1. lay the pockets out on the poster board to figure out the amount of rows and columns that you will need.  We always include a few extra for new students
2. pull the paper off of the back of the pockets and lay them down, be very careful to get them in straight lines because it is very easy to get off just a little.
3. Add you heading letters, examples for the sports theme were Touchdown, Home-run, Goal, and Score
4. then you can use a label maker for names or add any touches you would like to make it personal.

 The home-run chart was for her reading class.^^^

Touchdown was for her Homeroom kids that she had for a majority of the day.

With these charts she also had decks of cards,two for her and two for her students.  If one of her students got caught doing something good or had their homework done or reading back signed they got a card.  She then drew two cards on Friday to get matching cards.  The student that had a matching card would then get to go to the treasure box and choose something.  The treasure box has little things like necklaces, rings, little cars, little army guys.  The students also can get the cards taken away if they are naughty.

~<3~ Bekkah :D

Spring has Sprung

Hey everyone!!!  I was so ready for spring when March 1 hit but I had to wait like most other people to get my plants planted.  So I finally got it done!!  With our hand painted pots our porch definitely is much brighter.  We also had the idea to add some nature to it besides the flowers.  My grandpa found a tree stump to place one of our plants on... So I hope you enjoy this post...