Getting Wild with the Ward's: My First "NO" Money Bulletin Board...

So most of you know (if you know me) that I am currently going to school to finish my degree in Elementary Education. Well up until now, the classes have been a little bit drab and boring...but now I am getting to the good stuff...a.k.a...crafty stuff! Woo Hoo! One of my first projects was to create a student centered/hands on/interactive bulletin board for under 5 dollars. The background paper and border were free of charge because I found them at the school...and the teacher said we could use them. Since 5 dollars is like...nothing...in today's world, I had to get crafty. Here is what I came up with...and I have a few finishing touches I need to add. The whole board besides the letters and the tiny foam bees was made from paper of some sort...and it was all FREE. Since I got the background and it was yellow, I decided to pair it with the black lettering that I already had at home....and I instantly thought about bumble bees. Hmm...bumble bees and time...how bout "We're Buzzing About Time?" Sounds clever enough to me. Then in terms of "hands-on" and "interactive" I felt like math would be the easiest subject matter (btw...subject matter and grade were completely up to me)! Then I thought...bees like to swarm around flowers...hmm...how bout flowers that have little clocks in the middle of them that are laminated. Why laminated you ask? Because I attached the clock faces without any hands...and that is where the student "hands-on" part comes in. The student will draw a pre-determined time card out of the envelope and he/she is responsible for drawing the little hand and the big hand in the appropriate position to reflect the correct time. Dry erase markers will work perfectly and the teacher can use a different time for every single student...then erase and start all over. The teacher could also change this up by providing the times on the clock faces with the big and little hands asking the student write the correct time on laminated time cards. I thought this was a cute idea because its bright, colorful, cheap and concrete. If I have learned anything from going back to school its that kids are "concrete" learners...let them touch it, move it, smell it and really get into whatever you are teaching and they will REMEMBER it. So...here it is!