Thriving Thrifts

This past Saturday was the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and I just felt it was right to ATTEMPT a Harry Potter related crafts. Yes, attempt because it didn't work as well as I would have liked and it is not even complete. But I thought I would show what I was able to do. Of course, during all of this, I had to be watching a Harry Potter Marathon to celebrate. I recently went to Harry Potter World for my birthday! My fiance had me believing she was taking me to Sea World but nope we pulled into Universal Studios! I had an amazing time and with my souvenirs I purchased I got Harry Potter themed grocery bags. I have been wanting to try this craft I saw with turning grocery bags into reusable bags by ironing them and these bags were a perfect front image. It took many attempts but I got it to kind of work. The supplies I used were grocery bags, an iron on medium temperature, ironing board, scissors, and parchment paper. I folded the groceries bags and cut the h

As mentioned before, I am a preschool teacher and I like to make my materials mostly from Dollar Tree products, thrifts, and things I already have on hand. I purchased this dry erase dice from Dollar Tree and wanted to use it for a song game. However, with youngsters that like to touch everything, the dry erase marks would come off in one roll. So I had another idea to print out images that represent some songs we sing in the classroom and just taped them on. I will be making more of these once I move. Some other ideas I will use on the dice are numbers, letters, shapes, and colors. Next time, instead of printing out images, I may look through my large sticker collection for the items I want on there. I also just printed out and lamented some ABC flash cards to work on letter sounds with my 2 year old students.