This year, the theme I picked for our classroom was Noah's Ark!
I decorated the door with blue wrapping paper, a brown Noah's ark, and a few animals for all the kids I have this year. I used a combination of butterflies, caterpillars, and fish. I had all these on hand already. For the rainbow and clouds, I used tissue paper. To create Noah's ark, I used plain old brown mailing paper. Simple, easy, and relatively low cost. This teacher is on a budget!
For our classroom, I decorated one whole wall with Noah's ark. For the water I used a heavy duty blue paper, I found in the teacher's section of our local Hobby Lobby. I created the rainbow using plastic table clothes. This part was a little tricky since we are not allowed to put holes in the walls. The plastic table clothes were not sticking with tape ( a little too slippery). So a friend suggested using pipe cleaners. I placed the pipe cleaners through my rainbow knots and then taped the pipe cleaners to the paper. Problem solved! I added a ark using the same brown mailing paper from the door. I created clouds by using poster board and glitter! Our quote on the board is "God Keeps His Promises!" The decorations are fairly simple, but the kids love the wall.
To complete the theme, I created our prayer wall. This is where we keep track of the prayers we are learning....the Our Father (The Lord's Prayer), the Hail Mary, the Glory Be, the Guardian Angel, and the Sign of the Cross. On this wall, every child has a boat with all 5 prayers listed. The children know which boat is theirs by the animals and the names on the animals. This year the boys are turtles while the girls are ladybugs. The ladybugs and turtles are free coloring pages I found online and colored. The boats I made out of brown construction paper.
I just love creating an environment where the kids love to come and visit!
Till Next Time,
Monique
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