Back & Better

We are finally back from Christmas break, followed by three consecutive snow days . . . Just saying.  I didn't leave my house for four straight days.  I don't think I have ever done that before. Even when I had four kids under seven years old!  I am very thankful that some of my college friends had lunch with  me right before the polar vortex came. Boy was it cold. The temperature was negative 42 with the wind chill!!  Now that's cold!  I have never experienced weather like that.   Well since I had a "little" bit of extra time I made my 100 days of school shirt.  My wonderful husband bought me a Silhouette  Portrait for Christmas.  It is very easy to use, and I love it! 



I began making my shirt by finding an apple design from the Silhouette store.  Afterwards I typed my wording. After you are done adding your design you need to mirror the image.  You can do this by right clicking on the image and chose flip horizontally.  

After the freezer paper is cut, take it and place it where you want the design to be on your clothing.  My freezer paper was a little cured up on the edges, so I placed my tea cups on the edges to hold the paper down.

After you have your freezer paper on the shirt, turn your iron on to the heat setting right below the cotton setting.  After the iron is warmed, take it and gently iron the freezer paper.  Please note, the freezer paper will attach to the shirt very quickly.  Just pass over the design quickly.  Don't keep the iron on the freezer paper too long. 

After you are done ironing, put something inside the shirt that will prevent the fabric paint to bleed to the backside of your shirt.  I put lots of copy paper in the middle of my shirt.  Then paint your design.  I used a sponge to paint mine, but I'm sure a paint brush will work just fine.  Let the paint dry before you remove the freezer paper.  I let it dry for a couple of hours.  

And here is the final product! I'm so excited about wearing my new shirt on the 100th day! 

I was very happy to be back to school this week.  Here are a couple of pictures of our two days back to school.

Working on New Year's Writing.

Reading during the Daily Five.

Of course we had to read Snow Day, by Lester Laminack.  My favorite snow book.

Here's a picture of one of our New Year's writing.  We added a little party hat to the top of our writing.

And of course here is a picture of our bulletin board.  

As we come back to school from break we are preparing to take our MClass test.  I created this mini help to help expose my students to a few nonsense words before they take their test.  You can click on the title if you want to purchase it on tpt.

Bip's Nonsense Day