Monday Made It…Kind Of!
There is a difference between being a creative person and being a crafty person. I think that in some way, you need to be creative to be crafty, but you don’t need to be crafty to be creative. See, once in a while I can get my mind to “think outside of the box.” I can often whip up something on a whim and I love to create fun new science material for my classroom. But if you give me a hot glue gun, I’m clueless. I have a brand new, in-the-box Cricut machine that I’ve not really touched. One, because I’m scared of it and two, because I don’t know what to do with it. I know you can make paper people and things like that? But then I don’t know what to do with the paper people! (I even keep buying cartridges because it makes me feel like I’m a professional Cricut creator. Shh.) When I was a teenager, the fun thing to do was paint a t-shirt with puffy paint for the football games. My friends’ shirts always looked great – stenciled, bedazzled (because that was cool back then), and colorful. Mine looked like I held the paint in front of a fan, pressed the On button, and let the shirt design itself.
Needless to say, I’m linking up for my first Monday Made It! 🙂 I know. You are super excited right now.
The first thing I made this week was a Magnetic Board for my desk at school. I’m trying to make my room have more of a “homey” feel to it this year, so I wanted to add some pictures to my desk area.
I started by buying this magnetic sheet at Joann Fabrics and a spool of yarn.
Thanks for joining me on my first Monday Made It! Head over to 4th Grade Frolics to see what everyone else has created this week. 🙂
Your projects turned out nicely. I love the look of those turquoise water beads lit up – very fancy!!
🙂
Antonia @ forkin4th
Thanks Antonia! 🙂 I love how they look at night!
Your magnetic board is adorable!! I've been wanting to do one of those for a while now I just haven't gotten around to it! Putting it back on my to-do list! 🙂
Molly
Lessons with Laughter
Aw that is super neat! I haven't seen those magic water beads but they are AWESOME!! Thanks for sharing it! 🙂
Amanda
Reaching for the TOP!
Love your magnetic board and so glad you could link up this week:) Thanks!!!
4th Grade Frolics
Too cute!!! Love it!!!
Love your ideas and as always, you make me laugh… My shirts look the same exact way! haha
Cynthia
My Kind of Teaching
Both of your projects are super cute! I haven't heard of magic water beads before…I want some! Teaching with Giggles