Ideas for Decorating a Door

By

Poor But Proud

Log onto Microsofts clipart website. You can find over 100 pages of free printable clip arts of computers. If you click on "options" at the top right you can change from 8 images per page to 48 which lowers the amount of pages you have to search. You can click on "add to download basket", "open to find out more info" or "clip to clipboard". I always save by downloading so that I can copy and paste it later to a word doc.
When you find the images you want, you can then put them on a word doc and print them.
Now, keep in mind they come in different sizes. If you are not computer savey, this will help.

When you copy and then paste to a word doc, the image might be huge! Don't panic, just right click on it, then click on "format picture". The window will have a tab that says "size". Once you are in that window, you can use the down arrow to decrease the height, and as you do that, the width will decrease automatically. If the image is too small, just increase instead.

To save paper, you can make the images right next to each other, or just a couple spaces apart by using your space bar. When you get all the images you want, just print and then cut with a real scissors and put on the door.
If the door is metal, you could even cut cardboard the same size at each photo and use wide tape to tape over the image and onto the back. Once it's stiff and "laminated", hot glue a small magnet to the back so the image stays protected from little fingerprints, it won't curl over time and the kids can handle them and put them where they want.
I am assuming these are little ones, but if not, it's still a cool idea.

By

Deeli

I am not sure what age of children or how many during the day you are teaching but at any age I think this would be fun and personalized:

Have assorted colors of Sharpie's and let each student make a small drawing and/or sign their name on the door. Each student will feel they made a big contribution and will make them feel included as a group.

I can only see two things that might make this difficult and that would be their age. Wee ones might need a lift up if they want to draw or write higher up on the door and older ones might need to be supervized to make sure they remain appropriate ;-)

And, of course, next year you can repaint the door and pass out the Sharpie's again ;-)

By

thriftmeg

I would make a large computer monitor screen from cardboard and clear acetate for the screen. On colorful paper, put either an interesting question about the history of computers, a new kid friendly web site or a suggestion of something new to try with the computer. Change it weekly or more often. Slide the paper with the writing on it, behind the computer cut out so it shows in the acetate "screen"

I am doing a school project where I have to decorate our door the best. I was wondering if you have any ideas?