Valentine's day bulletin board

Last year I was queen of bulliten boards...this year...not so much. I actually avoid doing them. Terrible; I know. This week I finally decided to spruce up the hall. This is what I came up with:

Materials:

Hands...I printed mine out to avoid the first grade version of a hand cut out. Older kids might be able to trace and cut hands better than my little ones.

Card stock 

White hearts

Markers

Scissors

Glue

Stapler

First the students cut out the hands. I then stapled them into the symbol of "I love you" in sign language. On the white heart, each student wrote one thing they loved about school. 

Super easy! 

 

Snowmen

My first graders are dynamite in creativity. This week we decided to talk about snowmen and how other states have snow! Arizona kinda lacks in the snow department. The students were able to discover that cool colors remind them of being cold...so that is where we started!

After layering cool colors in the background the students created their snowmen. It was very neat to see the colors blend together!

While those were drying, we created descriptions of our snowmen. I let the students write whatever they felt like. I was amazed at how descriptively some of them wrote!

Easy peasy...glue the paper down and viola!