Third Quarter Bulletin Boards, Continued

Last year I made a large, 3D keyboard out of take out boxes.  I ended up redoing it this year because it didn't store well.  I will have to figure out a better way to store it this year.  I'm thinking I may need to cut the big keyboard in half and just hang it together next year.  Thoughts?

Since I was cutting and gluing styrofoam boxes, I went ahead and made the whole keyboard this year.  The "Your Fingers Have a Home" letters are the same ones I used last year.

This next bulletin board hangs in the hallway.  I'll change it out mid February, maybe.  I like it too much to give it the axe in three weeks!

The snowflakes have Office shortcuts in there.  If you're interested, let me know and I'll make a point to put the PDF of the snowflakes up.  I printed them on regular white card stock and cut them out one night while I was watching an NCIS marathon.  It made the job less painful!

The snowman is on poster board that I painted and sprinkled with glitter before cutting out.  The paint is just some white paint squirted on the card stock and schmered around to give a bit of texture.  I free handed the snowman. . . he's missing a waist.  Whoops!  The scarf and mittens are made out of felt.  The hat is also felt.  The eyes and buttons are those flat, plastic "crystals" and the nose is also felt.  I found all this stuff in my crafty hole corner of the basement. 

The letters are printed in reverse on silver scrapbook paper.  I printed it on the back so that the ink wouldn't smear, which is why I printed it on the reverse.   The backdrop is some very, very cheap clearance fake satin that was on clearance at WalMart for a buck a yard.  I will probably not be able to reuse it because it snags and has holes from the staples.  Cheap, very cheap!  The little round snow blobs are white card stock I sent through the laminator.  I sprinkled it with glitter before sending it and then punched out two sizes of circles from the paper. 

Close up, this looks pretty awesome.  I'm not sure how well it will hold up over the month and a half I'm hoping to get out of it.  I'll let you know!

Welcome back to school!!!