The Mom I Want to Be

Kidlet's Version

 

Tri-fold display board (48 by 36 inches; makes two stations, available at office supply stores)

Yardstick and pencil

Craft knife

Con-Tact paper or paint (optional)

Hot glue gun

Clothespins

Magnets / magnet strip or metal ruler

Adhesive backed Velcro dots

Zip close binder pouch

Small cork square

 

Folded for easy storage

 

Use glue dots to affix clothespins to one side for holding important papers and notes.

 

Adhere magnets with hot glue to scissors, the back of a stapler, and other frequently used supplies. Line them up along a ruler/magnet strip, with more magnets and a magnetic clip.

 

Use adhesive-backed Velcro dots to attach supplies that need to be easily removed: the ruler/magnet strip, a clock, a calculator, a sticky-note dispenser, and a pencil box.

 

Hang a zip-close binder pouch from an adhesive hook to hold small supplies.

 

Affix a small cork square for displaying photos or notes, using hot glue or the adhesive supplied with the square.

 

Our version (top photo) was created not so much to hold supplies (I have all homework supplies in an inexpensive plastic tower of drawers), but to hold reference materials.  I am always juggling handwriting cards,  sight words (They call them “wall words” in his classroom, so that’s what I labedled them here), and other reference items while he is working.  Since we are working so hard on his handwriting, having the handwriting card easily visable during work time is vital to us.  Horizonally on the table, it would get shuffled under other papers, mislaid, and beat up.