Scissors, Scissors, Scissors

This year parents bought the school supplies and brought them in the first day of school.  It was very chaotic and I had a lot of bags to go through to that night.  I was at school until 11:30pm that first day.  I was going to let the students keep their scissors at their desks but I had a few students the first day cut anything in sight.  So I made sure every pair of scissors were labelled.  Many of the parents did label the supplies but some still needed to be labelled so I took some tape and labelled the rest and then put them in a big bucket.  But the first activity that they needed their scissors I found it took forever to hand them out.  So I wanted to come up with a solution where the scissors were still by me but the students could get them easily.  Then I remembered the foam you can use with plants.  I had used the foam a few years back for a mother's day craft with my grade 5/6s and I wanted to see if this idea would work.  

 So I bought a few of the foams and then I took a kleenex box and cut the top off the kleenex box.

 I made sure all the scissors were labelled.

 I put the green foam inside the kleenex box and started lining up the scissors with the students names facing out.  

The scissors are by my desk but the students can come up any time and grab their scissors.  All of my students now know what their own scissors look like.  When we do group activities, I just call a few students up at a time to grab their scissors.  

At first I didn't put the foam in the kleenex box and by lunch time, my students little finger prints were all over the foam so the kleenex box protects the foam.  

Kemble :-)