Decorate Your Classroom Using Clip Art.

I have somehow found myself with extra time on my hands.  With my hours temporarily reduced and no students in my classroom, I have decided to change the decor of my classroom.  As a single parent, I didn't want to spend a lot of money on decorating so I looked around the school to see what was readily available that I could use.  I had already decided on a dog theme and had scoured the internet for free clip art.  I chose a handful of dog pictures to use in my decorating madness.

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The first item I tackled was my calendar.  It already had a border on it that was a nature theme, so all I did was laminate my dog clip art and stuck them around the calendar.  Next, I printed out some colorful free paw prints and wrote numbers on them.  After sending them through the laminator, I stuck Velcro circles on the back of each one.

I then needed new Months of the Year posters.  I looked up free printable options and found one I could work with.  I glued my free dog clip art to each month and laminated it.  I didn't like how it looked on my wall so I took an old cork board and painted it.  I did the trim in a light blue and the cork board in a gold tone. I used these paints (that I borrowed from a co-worker) to spruce up a few other items in my room. I will post those later.

During my redecorating rampage, I realized that I needed a Color Chart.  I found a free printable crayon sheet and using a clip art dog, paw prints and construction paper, I created this fun Color Chart.

                  

I found this old weather poster with bears on it but it didn't fit my theme.  I printed out this cute, fat, clip art dog and glued his face over the bears faces.

                                

The last item I tackled with these cute clip art dogs is an alphabet border.  I bought a nature themed one from the Dollar Tree.  I couldn't find a dog themed one.  I glued my clip art dogs to the border. 

There is so much you can do with clip art.  You can enlarge them for bigger projects or shrink them for small ones.  They can be laminated or reinforced by gluing them on poster board.  I have really enjoyed searching for items that I can stick them on.