Helping Hands

Instead of packing as I should be doing since I leave in less than a week, I have instead been wanting to plan things for my classroom. This, as I think most of you would agree, is much more fun than packing! As a result, I ended up going on a side trip to Michael's and picked up some craft supplies to make "Helping Hands" for the classroom. This idea was inspired by Mrs. E at The Sweet Life of Third Grade who made some adorable pointers of her own. Check out her blog for pictures!

The individual hands were only $0.59 cents, the dowel rods (square ones, not round) were about $2.50 and the paint was about $1.75.

My little sister (well...she's not too little she is 14) was bored and wanted to do something so.....I gave her the job of painting! She did a great job!

With a few added polka dots and a little hot glue we have our "Helping Hands"! I plan on using them for group activities/games with a group for each color. I will also use them as pointers when I need to use one on the board. I hope to get a cute basket of can to stand them up in and put a sign on the can that says "Helping Hands". Hopefully my students will like them as much as I do! :)