Snow...Go Away! December 2008

This display was from Christmas, but with all the snow coming down this morning I thought I'd post it, because I forgot to post it in December and I still think it's cute. :p We recently received a very large donation of puppets and display items and the snowmen were part of the package. I just love the melting snowman, don't you?

It's "Souper" Dontcha Think? Jan/Feb 2009

January was National Soup Month so I made the bulletin board in the easy corner a "Soup"er Reader board. Images around the soup can are all different book covers related to soup.

Now it's almost March and I'm trying to talk myself into changing the board. (even though with the snow outside, I think soup sounds good right now!)

February 2009

For the latter part of January until now, I've had Valentine decorations up. As I have not been to work in three days because of a cold, I was unable to take pictures (and someone kindly took down decorations for me). I had our Valentine heart bears on one wall and this year I put up the Valentine tree. The Valentine tree is basically our fall tree covered in hearts of all different colors and sizes, with a corresponding poem to go up right beside it.

On the smallest wall, I created a mural of Abe Lincoln (since it is his 200th birthday!). To create the mural, I had the image blown up to fit on about 35 8 by 11 size pages. I think pieced them together and secured them with my trusty gluestick. It might not look it from the picture, but it's a good 2.5 foot tall by 4.5 foot wide. On one side I put the Emancipation Proclamation and on the other side I put the Gettysburg Address. It was the perfect background for our birthday celebration we had on Saturday, February 7. Here our director, dressed as Abe, reads to children in 2nd-5th grade.

A Sneak Peek at Summer 2009

Our theme has been chosen! Summer 2009's Summer Reading Program will be Driven to Read! For a NASCAR fan, this is perfect. Oh, I can picture the decorations already (including one of my dad's 6-foot tall Jeff Gordon standees...)

Christmas, December 2008

The room for Christmas 2008 is very similar to the room of 2007. The elves are back up (minus the snowmen, but including the teddy bears from the small wall last year). Santa is once again flying over the houses wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.

The only difference is that the small wall now has a Gingerbread theme.

Fall 2008...Pumpkins, Scarecrows, and Things that Go 'Bump' in the Night!

The local Dollar Tree was a great friend to me for Fall 2008. The scarecrow and crows below are almost three foot high and were each only $1.00. The pumpkins we've had forever and most all falling apart and in need of new leaves, but they worked again this year.

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Then of course I found Frankenstein and Dracula at the Dollar Tree a few weeks after the scarecrow/crows. Again, these are about three foot tall. The ghost we received from a store a few years ago (it is double sided). Pumpkins are just misc. cut-outs.

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The decoration along the top is my traditional haunted house scene above the doorframe of children's. Included is a witch, ghost, clown, haunted house, fence, tree, and moon. The spider/wite/mummy/owl/frankenstein/pumpkin borders on either side of the door are new this year, again courtesy of Dollar Tree.


The decorations saved me a ton of time for the small amount of money I paid for them and they really helped fill the room...always a challenge!

A Look Back at Summer 08...

One last look at Summer...my "Catch the Reading Bug" bulletin board. (set purchased through Upstart)