St. Patrick’s Day Themed Bulletin Board

03/05/2014

March is upon us and everyone has Spring fever, nothing like a little green to get you in the mood for Spring :)

In this blog post the ITC Graduate Assistants put together a posting about making a St. Patrick’s themed bulletin board. Here is how they did it.

To make the St. Patrick’s Day themed bulletin board for the ITC, we first started with the background paper.  Measuring the height and width of the bulletin board gave us an estimate of the size we needed for the background.  We decided to go with green for the background to go with the St. Patrick’s Day theme.  Next, we chose a border to put around the bulletin board.  We decided to go with white again, so we were able to reuse the border from our Valentine’s board last month!

Then, we searched for pictures of a Leprechaun to use as an example to make a copy onto a transparency.  Now we were ready to use the overhead projector to project the image up on the wall for tracing and to modify as needed.  The ITC has a Plexiglas wall and overhead projector set up for use anytime!  This setup allows you to enlarge images for creating your own bulletin boards. 

Once we traced the outline of our Leprechaun, we cut him out and started coloring.  We used colored pencils, which are available at the ITC, along with crayons and markers.  After we finished the coloring, we hung him on the bulletin board.  Once he was in position, we added out MP3 player with ear buds and plugged into the Leprechaun’s ears for listening to Dr. Grissom’s TechTalk4Teachers podcast.  Including the MP3 player has become a running theme for our bulletin boards in the ITC.

Next, we started working on the pot of gold.  We used some of the black background paper to free hand a pot for the gold.  Then, we used some of our pre-laminated paper and our Ellison die cuts to out gold coins to add to the pot.  Finally, we added our pot of gold to the bulletin board.  We stapled it loosely to give it a little 3D effect.  

We placed the pot on the bulletin board tilted, which allowed us to make it look like the gold coins were falling out the side of the pot.  Once we had all the coins on the bulletin board as well, we wrote things the ITC has to offer on some of the coins.  Some of the things we wrote include “IPAD,” “Lamination,” “Copies,” “Die cuts,” “Computers” and several other options available at the ITC.

We used the Ellison die cuts to cut out the phrase “The ITC is like a pot of Gold” to go with the St. Patrick’s Day theme!

Next, we started working on the rainbow.  We used red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple construction paper for the rainbow.  We cut the construction paper into small strips and started linking them together into chains.  Once we finished linking all the paper strips together, we put them on our bulletin board to give us a 3D rainbow coming out of our pot of gold!  Finally, we used some construction paper to free hand some clouds to put at the top of our rainbow.

Keep on Learning,

Dr. Grissom

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