I decided today to go ahead and kick in 100 bucks to put a curtain across the back cabinets in classroom. See how it's open down below the counters....you can see it above.
I'm not liking seeing open papers and things. I have a third of it covered, on down the cabinet but it's curtain from another room I was in and not tailored for this room. (too bad the windows wash out in these pictures they are nice paintings)
So that green looks dorky. I think this Eric Carle fabric will be great.
By the way, I saw on his Eric Carle site, quite a few nice fabrics for sale. I thought, how brilliant for my room. And then I decided on one.
Slowly I'll make things for the room with the other fabric. I may order a few yards to put up on the wall and re-do somehow the word wall. And try and take on some decorating.
(Jack just yelled in to tell me that Bob Dylan is making a Christmas album with Must Be Santa among the tunes. Boy, that's challenging to consider.)
Anyway I think it'll look nice to put in cabinet covers.With that thought....
purchased 15 yards of this on sale on-line because I am never going into Jo-Ann fabrics again, rude treatment...and our wonderful Fabric Well closed. So I got excited thinking it'll be clean and look good.
Cute no?
On Flickr they have an Eric Carle Fabric group. I was surprised, but hey, nice ideas.
Cute:
And for those eye rolling I remind you I put a very, very, very high stake on the classroom environment, and that home to school connection. I really do follow Nell Noddings, and I value very highly that kind of room where it "talks" to you and your imagination.
So I'm thinking of making that up.
Hope it comes soon. I start school on Monday.
Thank you for offering the tip about using Eric Carle material for your classroom. As a parent of three, I've always thought that the classroom "decorations" were an important extension of the classroom and gave me a look into the teacher's creativity. I work at the Eric Carle Museum and our store sells the Eric Carle material - and I didn't think of it being used in classrooms! Great idea! Good luck with back to school!
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ReplyDeleteI am actually after payday order some of that lovely fabric.
I have blogged about Eric Carle a number of times here because his books obviously change so much and improve so much for my classrooms. It must be wonderful to work there. My own three were so enhanced because of those books.
I started thinking this fabric would "tie in" to just about 50 books we use! And that's fun to think about.
Well here you go, if you search him on my site it can barely load!
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I'm awfully proud of that!
left out an ing in my answer!
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