Category: Classroom Set Up

Classroom Set-Up Round 6

8/20/2017

Last week, I spent many hours cleaning, organizing and preparing my 7th-12th grade classroom for the upcoming school year. Next week, I will start on my elementary room! I dropped off a handful of supplies, and took a few photos to act as before shots - updates to come soon!

PRE-ORGANIZATION

I plan to use a color coding system this year to organize table supplies! I'm very thankful for so many amazing fellow art teachers who use Instagram and other social media outlets for inspiration and amazing ideas to make the best of my work space!

I took over an hour to sort ALL of my construction paper... a work in progress.

Decided to color code this year!

Thanks to the other teachers for donating their paint to my collection!

This is what going through all of your classroom supplies looks like.

I cannot wait to hang this up to make supply caddies.

Old supply bins make great drawer organizers!

I moved my watercolor paints and brushes closer to the sink this year for easy clean-up and prep. (I hope!)

I started to sort oil pastels for the upcoming year!

I'm trying silverware storage bins to help keep colors separated - fingers crossed!

Markers, crayons, and other art supplies are sorted!

BEFORE I started working on the back wall...

AFTER... what's missing?

This area will be turned into my "I'm DONE!" space.

This cabinet was great for storage... but SO dark and SO large.

New color coded supply center!

SO much better than that dark cabinet.

The cabinet I've avoided for years... BEFORE.

Even though I thought I finished this... I'm going to change it again because a colleague gave me a GREAT idea!

I will finally decide the finished state of this area soon.... maybe!

The area that I know I want to redo, but I'm not sure how yet...

AFTER... for now. I want labels :)

The top is all of my crayons sorted by individual color! The lower shelves are for current projects by grade.

I found the top of my desk!

I can't wait to display all of this!

SO MUCH IMPROVEMENT SO FAR :)

One of my favorite steps is wall decoration and bulletin boards.
I used labels from @thecreativeclassroom and amazing astrobrights paper,
along with good ol' Target finds this year! Not near done... but progress was made!

Remember that awkward area from before? It is right by my door when you come in...

I filled the hallways with past projects and project examples to brighten it up a bit!

I decided to make a "fake" bulletin board - not perfect - but more more aesthetically pleasing.

The front board now has almost completed bulletin board sides, along with elements and principles posters and a little "Art of the Jets" banner.

Color coded wipes - YUP!

Attention-getter!

I'm so excited about these adorable "Chair-footies" - let's hope they reduce noise and keep my floor shining and clean! The best part is that I could color coordinate them :)
Shout out to "Art with Mr. E" for the fabulous idea!

I cannot wait to paint the back wall. If you see the strips of colored tape -
those are my indicators where each color will start/stop.
I plan to do a blended rainbow effect from left to right!