My Owl Classroom Theme 2011-2012: Part 1 - The Hallway

Since I was assigned to teach yet another new grade level in a new school, I decided I needed a new classroom theme to go with it because I was tired of penguins.  I wanted something new and different so I chose an owl classroom theme for my 2011-2012 classroom theme.  I loved it!  It was so different and cute. My colors were teal and orange.  They were inspired by the lovely orange accent wall in my classroom.  What goes better with orange than teal?! I called my AM class the Blue Owls (teal) and my PM class the Orange Owls. Throughout my room I used the plain brown and green Carson and Dellosa owls that were the only owl decor I could find at the time.  Now owls are EVERYWHERE!  Yea that's right, I'm saying I'm a trendsetter.  I'm such a hipster teacher. No, not even close. Really though, I am seeing them in every teaching supply catalog and all over my beloved Pinterest.  This year's owl decor is also so much more colorful and cheery! I have a board on Pinterest solely devoted to my owl classroom theme, but I must say I think my owl classroom is the cutest one I have seen to date.  I might be just slightly biased...

Hope you enjoy Part 1 of the tour of my owl themed 4K classroom from the 2011-2012 year! Stay tuned, I to post my penguin themed kindergarten classroom from 2010-2011.

Since I had two separated groups of kids sharing lockers, I needed a way to label my lockers to distinguish AM owls from PM owls. Hence, my colorcoded Teal (blue) and Orange Owl lockertags.  I wanted to use a cute Carson Dellosa notepad, like I did when I taught kindergarten, but they only had brown owls at the time.  So I simply went to google images and found a cute owl available in teal and orange to use to make my own.  So simple and cheap!  I printed 2 per page on white card stock on a colored printer using my favorite 4 year old friendly teacher font, ABCPrint, to write each child's name nice and clearly.  I then cut each paper in half with my Handy Dandy Paper Trimmer and laminated them before taping them to the lockers.  So easy! 

By the way, the new colorful Carson Dellosa owls are even cuter!  So if I stick with the owl theme I could do what I originally wanted to do, but I would still have to buy a bunch of different packages to have enough of 2 colors. However, Amazon is including many of the Carson Dellosa owl stuff in their buy 4 get 1 free promotion and with prime shipping is free! I love this promo!

This was my hallway display above our lockers.  Yes you read that correctly I did not change it all year.  It was originally designed to get people talking about our new grade level 4K!  We made it at the beginning of the year and it was so difficult to hang up that I just let it stay all year.  People constantly stopped to admire it as they visited my school throughout the year.  I loved that it was cute and simple! I was inspired by this lovely craft on Pinterest. I love how each kiddo placed their pupils in a different spot!  I also love seeing their beginning of the year attempt at writing their names at the bottom.  When I took them down at the end of the year it really reminded me of the progress my little 4 year olds made this year!  4K truly is a hoot!

So what do you use for your lockertags/coat hook tags???