Flower Power Rhymes

A very pretty board for Spring, and interactive too! Great for a door, or it could be translated well onto a horizontal bulletin board. It would leave a lot more room for those big beautiful flowers at the bottom! Here's what you need...

• PAC57300 - Black 24"x12' Fadeless Paper
• CTP1041 - Poppin' Patterns Spring Flowers Border
• CTP1194 - 4" Poppin' Patterns Letters
• CTP5886 - Jumbo Spring Flowers Cut Outs
• PAC53841 - Premium Dark Green Posterboard
• CTP5883 - Spring Flowers Cut Outs

The black paper as a background gives this board a bit more of a funky feel because the colors on the flowers really shine on it. On the smaller flowers at the top I cut them in half down the middle. Then I used foam mounting squares to attach words from a rhyming pair on each half. This gave it a more 3D look. The words I typed on the computer using a font I downloaded online for free and just cut them out. Finally, I made the stems and leaves for the larger flowers by cutting strips of poster board apart for the stem and cutting an almond shape out of it for the leaves. It doesn't have to be perfect, most leaves are not truly identical anyway. Attach them at the bottom and you can add extra flowers at the top to fill in. Don't worry about not having enough stems to match the number of flowers, they would be hiding in the shadows anyway! Happy Spring!

Heart Breaker Rhyming Game

Do you ever find yourself wishing you could decorate for the special holidays throughout the season, but find that it's a lot of trouble for only a few weeks and that you're short on space? Here is the solution! Make a tri-fold center that teaches a skill your class will be working on during the season and use the holiday as your inspiration! Here I have incorporated rhyming as the skill and Valentine's Day as my inspiration! The original concept for this game is not my own and can be found on the blog listed below. I simply took the concept and translated it onto a tri-fold board, adding instructions and a few ideas of my own.

http://tommiestools.blogspot.com/2010/09/embellishments-of-heart.html

This is a blog created by Creative Teaching Press (makers of the cute hearts). You will find many wonderful ideas here that might just inspire you too!

Here are the item numbers for the board you see pictured.

• FLP30045R - Red Project Board (Cut in half using an X-acto Knife)
• CTP5885 - Poppin' Patterns Jumbo Hearts Cutouts
• T2703 - 4" Black Italic Upper & Lowercase Ready Letters
• CTP5882 - Poppin' Patterns Hearts Cutouts (Medium Sized, used a black marker to outline the break in the heart to make it pop)
• CTP6366 - Rhyming/Word Families Matching Game Books Grade K.
• CTP5879 - Poppin' Patterns Mini Hearts Cutouts
• ABC61-46 - File Folder Press on Bag (used on the back to hold the halves not affixed to the front of the board, not shown in photo)
• TNT6454 - Real Big Pockets Primary (not pictured)

Here are the instructions I posted at the bottom...

1. Remove the hearts from the bag on the back of the board.
2. Look at the pictures on each half.
3. Search for the picture on the board that rhymes with the half in your hand.
4. Place the matching pieces on the board until they are gone.
5. Remove one of the worksheets from the back of the board.
6. Complete the worksheet on rhyming and turn it in.

For the photo above, I showed the game board completed. You will wanna permanently attach one side of the heart to the board and the other half you could attach a piece of velcro or post-it type glue that will allow you to stick and re-stick. For storage, the velcro sided pieces can be kept in a zip-loc type bag on the back. Also on the back of the board I attached a red jumbo library pocket (see the last item listed). Inside the pocket I put a worksheet on rhyming for the students to complete. This will be what the student turns in and will help the teacher determine whether the concept was mastered.