Hi Folks! I want to welcome any new readers along with my regulars! I hope you’re enjoying all of the bright ideas this month!
Since it’s June and school’s our for most of us (hopefully) I wanted to give you a quick and easy tip that you can tuck away in your brain to get organized next year.
I blogged about this idea last year in a random post of other things, but didn’t realize JUST how great and helpful this idea was, so I wanted to highlight it again. It has saved me SO much time!
I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of bulletin board letters. I <3 to have different funky ones. The problem is, when I wanted to make a new bulletin board, I used to have to dig through a box of random letters… uhm… not fun. I could never find all of the letters I needed.
Then, last summer, I was at the dollar store. I was looking for a way to better organize my letters, and it hit me!
I grabbed a bunch of cheap-o plastic photo albums.
When I got home, I typed up a little cover for each telling me what type of letters where inside, and then set to work. I put each letter on one page. The photo albums are SUPER full, but I just wrap a rubber band around them to keep them closed. I did this for all of my letters and then stuck the albums in a basket in my classroom closet (sorry I don’t have a picture). Now when I want to make a bulletin board, I just pull out the basket, pick the letters I want, and I can easily find the ones I need! When I take a bulletin board down, I just put the letters back where they belong.
*One quick tip- when you buy the albums, make sure you get one that is big enough. I grabbed the albums that could hold 48 photos. That way, I could put letters in front and back and there was room for punctuation marks as well. I actually just cut out the extra pages in the back so they weren’t as thick.
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