Take What You Need Bulletin Board
Inspire your students to take encouragement when needed but to also give some inspiration to others when they can.
Dixon Ticonderoga Materials:
- Fadeless® Designs Paper, Wicker, 48" x 12', #P0057098 or 48" x 50', #P0057095
- Bordette® Decorative Borders, 2-1/4" x 50', Black, #P0037304 & White, #P0037014
- Pacon® Card Stock, 8-1/2" x 11", White, #P101188 & Black, #P101187
- Lia Griffith™ Cotton Spun Paper Balls, 15mm, #PLG42001
- Lia Griffith™ Double Sided Crepe Paper, #PLG11020
Other Materials:
- Yarn, White
- Mini Clothspins
- Wood Dowels, 3/8" Diameter
- Hot Glue Gun
- Stapler & Scissors
- Double-sided Tape (optional)
- Cricut Machine (optional)
Step One
Cover bulletin board with Wicker Fadeless® Paper. To do this, first cut enough paper to cover the board. Find the center of the paper you’ve cut. Roll in edges in and secure at the bottom of the rolls with binder clips. Start securing the paper to the board by stapling at the top center. Roll the paper out to the left, stapling as you go. Roll out the remainder of the paper to the right stapling across the top. Then staple down the sides and bottom, smoothing the paper as you go along. Cut off excess paper around edges. Then attach Black Bordette® around edges. Layer White Bordette® on top of that.
Step Two
Next prepare bulletin board components. First download and enlarge letters template 200% and cut from Black Pacon® Card Stock. Or if using a Cricut use our files at: bit.ly/3IMUF8R. Or use Cricut font: Four Seasons Home Decor* 5-1/2". Attach letters to board.
* Cricut charges may apply.
Step Three
Prepare corner rosettes by cutting one fold of crepe paper into four equal strips.
Step Four
Then taking one strip at a time, start making the rosette from the center out. Crinkle and twist crepe paper around center, gluing as you go. Each rosette should be approximately 4" to 5" in diameter. Glue one rosette to each of the corners of the bulletin board.
Step Five
Prepare clotheslines by cutting eight wood dowels to 27" long and 16 lengths of white yarn to 18" long. Taking two dowels and two lengths of yarn, wrap each yarn 1-1/2" from the ends of the dowels and knot it securing the dowels together. Do this to all four sets of dowels. Then spacing the sets evenly across the board, attach each dowel set to board by hot gluing only under where the yarn is.
Step Six
Next cut three 80" lengths of yarn to string between the dowels. Staring with the top left dowels tie one length of yarn where it is secured together from step 5.
Step Seven
Then before wrapping yarn around next set of dowels be sure to add Lia Griffith™ Cotton Spun Paper Balls to the yarn. Then continuing wrapping and tying this length of yarn around the other dowel sets. Cut off any excess yarn. Finish tying the other two lengths of yarn across the dowels, spacing them approximately 9-1/2" down from the one above.
Step Eight
Final steps, cut White Pacon® Card Stock to 5-1/2" x 5-1/2" squares. Decorate some and leave some blank for children to add their own inspiration. Use clothespins to add these cards to the clotheslines. Take the remaining fold of crepe paper and cut into 10 equal sections. Create 10 tassels and add them to the clotheslines for an added burst of color.