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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Pinterest-inspired project...

Yay for actually accomplishing something I pinned on Pinterest!  I've seen awesome milk crate seats all over the site made for people's classrooms, and thought they'd be perfect for my room.



I bought 5 black milk crates, 2 1/2 yards of fabric, and a twin size foam mattress pad, then borrowed a staple gun from my uncle down the street, and begged Tim to cut some plywood down to size that was sitting in the basement.
Took him all of about 5 minutes to measure and cut out 5 rectangles.  Thanks honey...
Then my pint-sized assistant decided to do some rhythmic gymnastics with the mattress foam lol...

Then I cut the fabric to allow for a 2-3 inch border around the wood pieces and placed 2 pieces of foam between the fabric and wood.  I whipped out the staple gun and got trigger happy...




And viola.... new reading group seats for my classroom   =)
The best part is that the padded wood is removable, so I can use the seats as easy accessible storage for all my guided reading stuff.  Yea, I give myself a pat on the back....  Can't wait to put these in my room and get some use out of them during centers!


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