Each year I create a team-oriented bulletin board. Since I assign students numbers as part of our management system, I use these same numbers to create jerseys.
If you check out the attached doc called Jerseys, you'll see that I designed them to replicate the New Jersey Devils hockey team jerseys. The sleeves of the jerseys are actually three dimensional, which makes the bulletin board look like a lot of work, but it's actually really simple.
On the doc called Jersey, you'll find a template that allows you to type in the child's last name and a number. That's the body of the jersey. You can also change the color of the jersey here.
On the Sleeves doc, you can again change the colors. But then you simply print out one Sleeves page per student, cut in half down the middle, and you have two sleeves!
Staple the body to the bulletin board first, then lay the sleeves on, but with print side facing the bulletin board. Once you staple
just the shoulder portion of each sleeve, the remainder is curled down, exposing the colored stripes and giving it a cool 3-D appearance.
One year I even had the kids "autograph" the jerseys, which they also thought was pretty neat.
Typing, printing, cutting, stapling: less than an hour. The oos and ahs of students and parents: priceless.
The hockey mask was just trimmed from a poster bought at Toys r Us for about 3 bucks, Lettering was done on computer.
jersey.doc
jersey sleeve.doc
jerseys.doc
04-19-2007, 05:45 AM
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