You have to hand it to teachers– they are SO creative!  Who would ever think an auto oil drip pan would make such an awesome center activity.  If you are joining me on my “Cookie Sheet Challenge” I know what you’re thinking.  An oil drip pan is “technically” not a cookie sheet.  I have tons of paint left in that spray can and I’m desperate.   Just think of it as a really big cookie sheet!  To make this activity, I painted my oil drip pan with navy blue metal paint.  Since I wanted to use the pan for letter/sounds, I used white electrical tape to make the squares.  I then mounted the drip pan  (aka really big cookie sheet) by running

I thought I was excited when the Home Depot started selling chalkboard paint.  Then came the dry erase board paint…  oh, my gosh!!  But today my teacher friend, Keri, shared a new product that will likely keep me up many nights thinking of different ways to use it.  It’s vinyl chalkboard paper!  Can you believe it?  It works just like contact paper.  You cut it into the size or shape you want, adhere it to any surface, write on it with liquid chalk, and then erase it with water.  Amazing! Keri cut strips of chalkboard sheets and used it to label containers in her classroom.  She also used the sheets for a math station activity.  Next year the kindergarten teachers at the school plan to use a Cricut machine to cut the sheet into shapes for