Refurbished Baskets, My Book

Last year (March 2011) my mom officially retired from teaching.  With her doing that I got my pick of her school items.  (WOOHOO!!!)  

She had some baskets she used on the top of her desk.  I loved them.  I thought they would help organize my desk even more.  Guess what??  I was right!  I loved them this past year.  I have a way to organize my paperwork and still make it look good.   Who wouldn't want that?

Here are the baskets.

 

Well, this year I am changing my theme so I wanted to come up with something to do to them so they would fit in my classroom better.  I am trying a black, white, blue, with green walls theme in my room.  I will still have some sports and Snoopy but I am concentrating on the colors.  I am hoping it will help my room look cooler and cleaner. (fingerscrossed)  So I thought and thought about what I wanted to do.  I ended up deciding to paint them and adding some ribbon.  Below is the after picture of the baskets.

I absolutly LOVE how they turned out.  What do you think?

On a different note:

Every year I have my kinders fill out a monthly paper writing their name, numbers, and draw a picture of themselves.  This year I knew I wanted to redo the form to make it look better.  Check them out at my TPT or my TN shops.