Glass Bead Magnets

Sometimes it is fun to do some crafts with the students. Usually I will do them the day before break or the last day of school. One of the students favorite is making these little magnets. I get the glass beads at the Dollar Tree, they are in the section with the flowers and vases. The magnets are from Hobby Lobby but they also have them at  Wall-mart. You have to buy the big magnets.

Materials:

Glass Beads, flat on one side
Big Magnets
Stickers, paper, magazines
White Glue
Scissors
Pen

Find a picture in a magazine, put a sticker on a piece of paper,or use a neat pieces of paper. Trace the glass bead on the paper and cut out your image.

Put white glue on the flat side of the bead smear glue to cover surface with finger, Then lay picture face down on the glue.

Cover back with glue and smear with finger, place magnet on top and you are done. Let dry over night.

Wipe off bead with a damp rag if their is dried glue on top. I am going to make some using numbers for another teacher. She is going to use them in a math center. She is going to use old metal pans and the students are going to design their math problems and then let their partner solve it. I think this could also work for letters, I am going to try to use small beads. I will let you know how it turns out.

Open my school...PLEASE

I am ready to get in my room and start putting it together but I  have not gotten the go yet from my principal. My apartment is starting to get over taken by my stuff.

My budget for my school is $0.00.Other teachers have been really good to me at my school, they always bring down the extra supplies the students didn't use and used during the year. It creates extra work at the end of the year but I get watercolors, paper, colored paper, and glue. My district has also proved somethings over the years but this year I going to need to start begging for paint. DonorsChoose has helped me with ceramic supplies. I try not to buy a lot with my own money but I do buy markers, crayons, and pencils.

Another thing I picked up for school are green pales for .50 cents each at Micheal's, I am going to use them for trash cans for each table. I bought them in all the same color so no one fights over them. The trash cans work great to keep students in their seats. Great for cutting and when we use colored pencils. I am not sure what I will use the shovels for yet.

 I am also lucking to have a friend that works for Micheal's and Aaron Bother's as a web designer. Once a month the company opens a warehouse for the employees to shop and it is $5 a bag. So she picks out what she wants and then fills the bag for me. It is a lot of random goodness. One of my favorite things I got was giant pipe cleans, I have no idea what to do with them yet but the are so cool.