The back to school creativity has kicked in! This year Pinterest is making it even worse! This is one of my newest adventures. I am VERY proud to say I did this project almost completely on my own!
The Materials: (getting the materials probably took me the most time of everything!)
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| Eight crates- which I found 1/2 off at Walmart! I had trouble finding eight though which meant I had to return to Walmart many times, which I did not enjoy. |
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| I went to Home Depot and had my new Home Depot friend Tim help cut some plywood for me. Again, this quickly became a big process for Tim and me. I ended up spending over an hour and a half with Tim in order to get them all cut out! It was the first time he had ever cut for anybody! :) |
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| The Fabric... This was a big decision since my students and I have to look at this everyday. I ended up driving to three different fabric stores before picking these out. I hope that the black and white will match my classroom no matter what changes I make. |
The work begins...
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| Sanding the edges and rounding off the corners. |
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| Cutting the foam. I guess this is another material I should have put up above as well. (Found it at the fabric store.) |
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| After cutting the foam I used spray adhesive to stick a small piece of foam to the wood. |
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| I gave the small piece of foam a day to dry before spraying the larger pieces and attaching them on top of the smaller piece. This should give lots of cushion for everyone's bottoms! |
I didn't get pictures of us (yes, Mitch had to help me with this) stapling the fabric to the board.
Here is the finished product! I am really happy with how they turned out and hopefully my students will enjoy reading on them. They even have space for storage underneath the lid.
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