Bulletin board letters...

I've been brainstorming ideas and trying to prepare myself so that when i finally get my portable, I can just go in there and have a gameplan. The only downside is.. I have NO money to classroom stuff at the moment. So my question is:

Can I print out my letters on Word, and laminate them to use on my BB? Will they still be sturdy and look nice, or will it noticably be a DIY project

Has anyone every tried doing this? I really want to get started on a couple of projects, I just want to make sure they come out the way I envision them

 

I'm sure there is a way to make them look nice. Maybe you can find a bubble letter font and make the size bigger and then print on colored construction paper and laminate.

 

Oh yea you could even add your own polka dots or designs.

 

Does your school have a die cute machine in the workroom? That would be a free way to go.
or if you have a Dollar Tree around - they usually have letters.

 

I was going to say the same thing skittleroo.

 

We have one die cut machine, but we have TWO workdays and 80 staff members, I don;t want to wait until the last minute. I tried printing some bubble letters on word (actually I found a site with free teacher fonts to download) and then I filled the inside color with my own designs. They look really cute. I'm going laminate them at work and see how they hold up!

 

It would be perfectly fine to print them out. Don't sweat the small stuff.

 

I make huge and medium letters this way. I make them outlined, with nothing in them and then print them on colored cardstock and laminate. I love them. I get lots of great comments about them, and some I've used for the last 4 years and they still look great! My orange is a little faded though.

 

good for you!!! I know at my school the laminator line is way longer than the die cut line (no line).....I've even used sentence strips and written on them. Use craft scissors to decorate....

 

MissT34...I used "word" last year to create my letters, cut them out and laminated them. I did this on regular colored paper and plan on using them again this year. It was a little time consuming but I really wanted to use larger letters and I just couldn't find a cute font. I changed the fonts for every few letters and even changed the color. It worked great.

 

My first year of teaching I used posterboard to make some of my bulletin board materials. I usually made bubble letters and filled them in with designs like polka dots, stripes, stars, etc. I also just laminated pieces of colored paper and made signs I could write on. I still think the posterboard letters are really cute!

 

If you were closer, I would let you use my cricut....I also bought some at the Dollar Tree.

 

Still, though, I'd rather buy them from Dollar Tree.

 

I have also watercolored, or drip painted, or spray painted, or done prints with leaves or corks or whatever on blank paper and then cut out the letters and used them (laminated or not) and they turn out great. You can also cut out the same letters with black and use them as a background for the fancy letters.

 

I was actually looking into the Cricut last night! A coworker had hers in her classroom and I thought it was so neat! Definately an investment for teachers.

 

I also agree that I would look at Dollar tree!

 

Our system has a resource center with die-cuts for us to use... a few different fonts to pick from. Do you have that in your area? If not, I say go to Dollar Tree. I saw some really cute things yesterday at one... banners, borders, etc.