Monday Made It 6/2

Today I am linking up with 4th Grade Frolics for my first ever Monday Made It!

Heading into my first year of teaching, I have a lot of projects to work on this summer and I'm hoping the weekly Monday Made It linky will keep me on track. I am very excited about my first project....

 (Actually, I only have 1 Made-It this week, but I wanted to use this cute button anyways!)

Crate Seats!

These were pretty simple to make: all I needed was crates, wood (I used particle board because it is cheaper than plywood), foam, fabric, and a little ribbon. Once I (actually my dad!) cut the wood so that it sat on theinner edge of the crate, I just cut foam to fit on top, covered it with fabric, pulled it tight and staple-gunned it on the back. That easy! I actually bought a mattress topper from Target because the foam at the fabric store was too expensive. A twin-sized mattress topper was enough for all eight seats that I made :) That last step I did was to fold a piece of ribbon and staple it on so that the seat part can be pulled off easily, and these can be used for storage as well! Here is a picture of the first four, so you can see my classroom color choices:

I still need to get the stickers off a couple! They peel of very easily :)

Blue and green! Actually, lime green, bright blue, and teal with black and white as the neutral colors. I am so excited! My classroom is currently being used as the summer school office, so I can't get in and start doing things until the end of the month...until then I am just letting all of my projects pile up in my room and garage :) 

Thanks for stopping by! I have a couple days of planning this week and some training next week, but hopefully I get some time to have several good projects next week...