Saturday, July 5, 2014

Felt characters and Word Wall Heading FREEBIE!

Well, hello!  It has been a long time since I have posted, I guess summer festivities have been getting in the way.  My summer has been busy with tutoring the sweetest girl.  Working with her has been perfect as she has just ended kindergarten and is getting ready for first grade.  Let me tell you, there are some amazing products and ideas for teaching this age group on Teachers Pay Teachers!  I have to use great restraint to not purchase everything I see.

We have had many rainy days and super, intense storms here in my neck of the woods which have led to many days spent indoors.  And, while that is a bummer, it is allowed me to be super productive in getting ready for my first year teaching kindergarten.  But before I show you what I have been working on, take a look at these spectacular clouds left over from one of our last storms.



In college, I relaxed by making felt board characters for retelling stories.  So, these rainy days have allowed me to make many more characters.  I just realized my camera is not working, so I will have to post more pictures of the complete sets- but here you go!  

Pinkalicious
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie

I also am working on a Pete the Cat set.  I am having way too much fun!

In addition to my felt board craftivities, I have also been working on my classroom decorations.  I am absolutely in love with my classroom alphabet posters.  Here is a sneak peak- as they will be available on TPT in the upcoming weeks.


For this project I played with some of my own clip art and borders, as well as using borders, clip art, and font from mycutegraphics.com, Rowdy In Room 300, and Ms. Fultz's Corner.  Check out what they have!

When I am done creating my classroom decoration sets, it will all be available on my TPT store.  It will have pretty much everything you need to get a good start in your classroom!  (Name plates, number cards, the above alphabet posters, etc!)  

But, what I do have for you today is a FREEBIE!  I finished my word wall headings last night and am just too excited about them to wait.  I received quite a bit of help from my boyfriend in figuring out Adobe Illustrator so that I could create my own borders.  You will see them in these headings.  Please note that I did not create the page sized borders.  My borders are the polka dot circle borders that are used for the actual headings!  Click on the picture to get your free download!



Enjoy!

-Heidi