A Little Classroom Inspiration

My newest addition to my classroom! 

Here is the inspiration from pinterest:

I couldn't do anything quite that large...so I went smaller. I bought a cheap frame from Michaels with my 40% off an individual item.  It was the one with the slide on sides and just cardboard from backing.  Then the sneaky characteristics of mine had to kick into play.  I went into The Home Depot and my husband aided me in grabbing a huge stack of various paint chip samples.  We literally walked away with a stack that was about 1.5" high.

Since we were working on building my craft room....the supplies sat for about a month before I finally did something with it.  I started mine like this:

I organized the paint chips by color and then arranged them on the large piece of paper that came with the frame. 

 Got this far and realized I didn't have enough paint chips.  So back to The Home Depot I went....So when you think you have enough...get more.

Here is what it looked like then...

 

The next step was to take it apart; one by one and cut off the lettering on the sample and then glue it back down.  Now, I would HIGHLY recommend you cut the lettering off BEFORE you lay it all down.  It will make your life much easier!

Once all glued down (I used the scrapbook tape glue), I used my cricut to cut out the letters.  I used the Art Philosophy cartridge and then arranged the letters on the paint chips and glued them down as well and this is what it looked like:

Finally, we put it into the frame and hung it on my wall at school!  I love it!  Can't wait to hear some of my kids reactions to it.  I think its a great quote and especially good in a classroom because kids don't always WANT to do some of the fun stuff we plan, but when they have a positive attitude; they always get more out of it!