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Well, my youngest is now 5 and I now have a school room, we converted our outside porch into a school room. I would like to find some cheap, or reasonable, decorations, like verses, stickers for the wall, posters. I am NOT creative myself so will not make stuff but am not sure where to look for this stuf. Thanks!
We have used SCM’s Picture Study Portfolio prints as art. Also an antique looking world map. We have rain gutters as book holders, which equals decor with function. There are websites where you can order custom vinyl decals and quotes. I would check Etsy.com. Also check Pinterest for ideas. A lot of Pinterest projects are not intense or difficult. Spray-painting a piece of plywood with chalk paint and putting it in a Goodwill frame is a project that will be much less expensive than buying a chalkboard and might take an hour or two. Framing cute scrapbook paper is another quick and easy idea.
I’ve gotten some wonderful images from Wikimedia Commons. These are images available for use by the public domain. I like to get them printed at a local photo center poster size and frame them. There are lots of cool scientific images and illustrations like this one, for example, from a German botanist:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Gustav_Reichenbach_-_Xenia_Orchidacea_-_vol._1
Thank you for your ideas? Is there a store online where you can get like foam wall decorations, premade stuff, like for Sunday School Decorations, stuff like that?
Oriental Trading comes to mind??
http://www.orientaltrading.com/teaching-supplies-and-stationery/sunday-school-a1-551521-5-0.fltr
Lindsey,
I was thinking you mentioned that you used chalk paint for your chalkboard in your schoolroom. Is that correct? If so, how does that turn out? Does it seem just like a chalkboard? Tha is, writes fine with chalk, erases fine, cleans fine?We use posters from the Dollar Tree for fun and for things we like to drill (like multiplication tables). We also buy calanders or cheap art books when we can get them, and use frames to change out the artwork month to month. We have a chalk board which we keep memory work on – a whiteboard or chalkboard wall would work as well. We write our memory scriptures, spelling or definitions of tricky words in our reading on this. A big clock helps to keep things on track, and is good for helping little ones tell time. We also invested some years back in high quality wall maps and a LARGE calendar system – this has helped us tremendously in our studies.
Hope you enjoy your school space!
Mrs. K,
The chalk paint works very well on lots of surfaces. How it writes and erases is more dependent on WHAT surface you’re painting than the actual paint itself. Our chalkboard is an old closet door. Honestly, it doesn’t erase super clean and the writing isn’t fine. But it’s the surface of the door. I should have sanded it first, but I didn’t and the surface is more rough than a smooth chalkboard. If you paint a smooth surface, I think it should behave very much like a real chalkboard.
@Mountain Mama: Thank you for the link! I have a craft/nature room and I was wondering where I could get posters like these!
I’ve purchased these things at Dollar Tree, Dollar General, and Target’s dollar section (in the late summer for Target). If you want to shop online, CBD (Christian Book) has a lot of these things as well. You could also check any local Christian bookstores or teacher’s supply stores…these both usually have larger posters.
We also have a large dry erase board that I love…it was light enough I was able to put it up with poster tabs instead of drilling into the wall.
I have these: http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/40+Removable+Poster+Mounts/035624/7427668e160d27fc13fa2101?subject=1&category=6602
They come in a couple different sizes and are great for holding up large posters as well…It’s the only thing that holds up our large laminated world map! They’ve also held up our dry erase board since the beginning of the year…although it’s cardboard-backed and not super heavy. I’m not sure it’d work on a heavier dry erase board.
I’ve never seen these before, but these look great, Holly, thanks for the link! I saw some of the other sizes they offer too. I wonder if they have them like at Walmart. Hmmm….
The home we moved into last summer was freshly painted by the sellers, which was wonderful, but they used flat paint. WHY?? It drives me crazy because eveything leaves marks, even trying to wipe off a small mark with a damp cloth. Ugh. I don’t know if these would fare any gentler on the flat paint, but even more than the marks I can’t stand having to put holes in the wall (even pushpin holes) — so these will get some good use for sure!
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