[azfarkas]

I have to create two display cases for the month of April. I need help with ideas...anyone have any cute ideas?

[musicbug]

How about coffee filter butterflies and paper flowers on pipe cleaners?

Butterflies are easy. Color coffee filters in the design of your choice. squish the center. From top to bottom.Fold pipe cleaner over the filter and twist to make antennas.
Fishing wire will make the butterflies float.
We decorated for an eighth grade dance that way for under $10.00 about 12 years ago.

[azfarkas]

Do you color all over the coffee filter? Do you think second graders could do it?

[musicbug]

For the coffee filter butterflies, they should color at least one whole side. If they are using crayons or coloed pencils they can color both sides. You may also want to cut extra-long pipe cleaners in half. Good luck!!!!

[GoTeachers]

An idea for the coffee filter butterflies is to let them color them with markers, then use a spray bottle and spray the colored filter and the colors will run and "bleed." Let them dry and they are GORGEOUS! We do them every year.

I also do flowers the same way for Mothers Day. They color with markers, we spray, let dry then I fold them up and fluff out (kind of hard to explain) and attach to a mothers day pencil with tape and rubber band, then they spray with some perfume that I have and we attach a little poem.

Another idea for display case is to do a title: April showers bring May flowers and have half of case with gray bulletin board paper (left) and on the right use a bright blue. Let kids write on a huge rain drop cut out of what they like to do on rainy days, then on the left let them make flowers with scraps of construction paper and material, the butterflies can hang around the flowers (May side).

[ABC]

One bulletin board/display the kids enjoy is the one I title "Buzzing into Spring." We paint one side of a dessert sized paper plate all yellow. Then after they are dried, take strips of black construction paper and glue for stripes. Add two googly eyes, two black construction paper antennaes and 2 wings cut out from wax paper. They are very bright and cheery, and except for having to get out paint, very easy as well. Happy Spring!