Fall Door Decor!

Happy Friday everyone! I'm hooking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to share a Five for Friday! This week I've gone around my school and found 5 great doors for Fall! Door décor-on my campus it is a big thing! Each season teachers and parents work together to create many door displays for each season. Some are simple, some are more complex. Not every class does this, but it is always fun to check out the Pinterest and non-Pinterest displays. Here are some of the fall themed doors found in our building right now!

This door is very Pinterest.  In fact, it was one of three doors in the building.  It is adorable though!  

This cute door is across the hall from me.  The leaves have the kids names on them.  I like how the tree comes off the door and is on the wall.  

I think this door is great! Each pumpkin has writing by the kids in this class.  Yes, all those kids are in this class.  This is one of our co-teaching classrooms.  

This door is a"door"able!  The cute owl on the door is the teacher.  Then the VERY artistic mom in this room had the kids make those cute owls hanging on the wall.

Here's one up close.  I just LOVE these adorable owls.  I am going to save this craft idea for next year.  The owls, mountains, and other parts are made of foam.  The wood is paper.  LOVE these!  (I read my students Poppy and these can totally be a Mr. Ocax craft!)

This door is AWESOME!  I have to admit, it is mine! It is really awesome though!  My mom's worked really hard at it and it extends down the wall.  Each student has a picture on a pumpkin and the wall says, "Welcome to Our Patch!"  I just love it!   

So, there you have it!  5 Fall Door Decor that you can enjoy or try out! Don't forget to pin them to your Fall Pinning Boards to keep for later!  While you are there, feel free to follow me!  

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It's All About the Costume!

      Halloween, fun and candy galore!  It is also a time killer-waiting for the party, waiting, in my case, for the parade that my school holds.  What’s a teacher to do?  Especially when you have, based on your own opinion, a boring costume.  As a team, we went with simple-dice.  White shirts, black dots-done.  I put mine on with double sided tape for easy removal.  On my way to work, I decided that I would, simply, change my white shirt.  I would use the black dots in a different way-I would turn myself into a ghost.  That got my brain thinking, and here’s where it lead.  With all that down time, my boring white shirt, and kids who couldn’t concentrate long enough to do anything “standard” worthy, I decided to let them create the rest of my costumes for the day!  Out came the construction paper and scissors.  But, more importantly, their creativity.  Below is the sequence of my costumes for the day!

Here's the dice!  Kids also came up with dominos.  

This was my favorite.  The cat, including the stripes!

I called him the horned man!

This was Mike Wazowski's cousin, Bubba!

This is the girly ghost costume!

This is a monster made of a variety of different animals, from sea turtle to dragon!

The ghost duck!

And, the grand finale.......

A No Homework Pass Coupon!  How could I give them homework with a costume like this!

     I’m definitely going to work my costumes around this idea from now on.  It solved so many problems with the day and let the kids have fun and pride in something they created.  Other kids spent the rest of the day wearing the costumes that the kids made for me and one ended up on the wall, as a permanent reminder of the opportunity to step out and create something just, plain fun!