An Echo Park Classroom

Well, we have been busy...

Every year, about this time, I help my Sister, Season, 

get her classroom {grade 3-4} ready for a new school year!

This year Season and I decided to do a 'beach theme' throughout the class.

Over the next few days I will be posting about our {little} project.

Well on the hunt for ideas, Echo Park came out with a fantastic line called 'Splash'.

We made our purchase and immediately got started!

Using Cricut's Life's A Beach cartridge {above} we have began to cut out

the different themes for her bulletin boards, labels for desks and hooks,

as well as, the 'Welcome Board' in the hallway! 

{our cricut...and the cartridge}

Today we accomplished a bit...mainly getting organized,

making any last minute purchase and then cutting.

{I'll admit, I always get nervous when making that first cut}

We have started with a bulletin board called 'Writer's Reef'.

Here are a few pictures of what we produced this afternoon:

{beach balls - just cut out}

{beach balls - outlined ...awaiting their consonants}

{Sand Pails- ready to be put together}

{Sand Pails - awaiting vowels}

{Sand Pails - finished}

We cut out the sand buckets, beach balls and letters. 

We layered, attached and outlined {or inked with Tim Holtz- distress inks}

Hopefully tomorrow we will be finished this board completely...except for

the laminating, re-cutting and then putting them up.

Oh well, it will all be worth it in the end!

This will be an on-going project for probably the next two weeks...

I hope you will continue to stop by and check out the progress! 

Jazz