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Art Room FlashBack

7/23/2018

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OMG! I am so excited to show you a new space this year. ​I am moving to a high school art job in a new district and I am thrilled for a new opportunity. 
Before I show you my new art room I want to do an Art Room Flashback, as many teachers are getting their rooms ready right now, I thought it might be helpful to have some inspiration. 

I taught in the middle school room for summer school for a few years before I moved to it in 2014. 
Before I decorated my middle school art room in 2014.
​After I decorated it.
Updated decor and additions in 2018. 
Here is an even farther flashback to my elementary art room 2013-2014 and a few pics here. 

Of course you change a few things every year. Here are a few pics of my room in action so you can see how full it was once the students were in there...a very busy, tight space. I would've really liked to get rid of my teacher's desk to make more room in there, but I always needed a spot for sub plans and it felt like the best place for them. 
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The space above the cabinets was a little cluttered with junk.....
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This was a 'bell ringer' type activity. I drew a bunch of types of ever green trees on the board and had them draw as many as they could on dry erase boards. It was a good warm up. I like to change up my room a bit for the holidays.
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Even with all of the student supplies in the 'store' my middle school students still had trouble finding basic things like pencils.....
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I tried to clear up some of the clutter, but with a single small counter (also holding my paper cutter) it was hard to keep it looking uncluttered.
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Thank goodness for that curtain covering the mess of a closet!
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My 'timeout' spot is by the door. We use BIST so sometimes I had someone in the 'buddy seat' and sometimes I had them sit there if they needed to cool off or even just to focus.
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Art Room Tour SPRING 2017
I will tell you that it was much easier to move the first time. Even though I had two art rooms when I taught elementary, when I moved to the middle school across town, I just put everything in the middle of the room and a crew of custodians moved all of my furniture and boxes. This time around, I took a load home almost every day of books, decor items and accumulated junk. Over spring break, I went through several of my totes and condensed as much as I could down, and got rid of a bunch of fabric and junk. I had to have everything out before the last day of school, so my husband went with me, and we got almost everything the weekend before the last day. We put it all in my garage. 

Several days in June/July, I took loads of stuff to my new room and started sorting it an organizing it. I still have a pile in the garage that I hate to get rid of but I probably won't need since I will be teaching high school. 
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My My load of stuff that I brought home. It was kind of a cool looking truck load. The photo below is a pic of my room undecorated. I left a few things for the new art teacher, like the tables, which were a gift from a friend...and the paint cans and my cool painted desk and the rugs and the styrofoam paint pallet that I painted...and the cool knobs on all of the cabinet drawers. Hopefully it is appreciated by a new teacher in the future. 

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For now, I am busy decorating my new room. TRYING to purge old 'babyish' stuff and overall trying not to make my new space look too cluttered. I am not a minimalist. I am a maximalist to the max. 
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