If you met me now you’d never know that I hated art in school. One of my absolute favorite parts of the year is decorating the hallway outside my room to welcome my new class. OK, crazy I know. Over the past few years I’ve created, borrowed, begged, and probably stolen ideas for to decorate my room for the start of the year.
One of my favorite displays actually wasn’t mine, but my good friend next door. She was an amazing artist and created a huge picture of a juke box (probably about four feet tall and 2-3 feet wide) and several kids who looked like they were rockin’ and dancin’. (Seriously, she should go work for Carson-Dellosa.) Starting in the hallway outside her room (maybe about 10 feet or so from her door) she started placing the kids so they looked like they were dancing towards her door. Then right before her door she put up the juke box with the words “Rock on in to Kindergarten!” On different types of music notes and records, she wrote each child’s name and placed them around the display. It really looked amazing.
Although I’ve never tried this one on my own (yet!), I did find a black and white coloring book juke box image on edupics.com. Since I do not draw well (ask my kids), I would make this into a transparency and use an overhead projector onto white poster paper to draw the lines of the juke box and then color or paint the inside once the lines were drawn. My friend laminated all her pieces as well and now stores them in one of the chart paper storage boxes so she can just whip them out again in a few years and blow away another group of families!
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