Felt Boards

[Momof4]

I bought an easel at Ikea with a whiteboard on one side and a chalkboard on the other side and a roll of paper that comes through and over on one side or the other. It only cost about $25 or so. Then I can place my homemade felt board right on it and for one price I have a very multipurpose easel. Like I said, it is great to think frugally and I also need to save space and have lots of choices for the children's activities.

But I don't want to tell anyone not to purchase products from our friend Playfelt of course!!!

[Spixie33]

Momof4...that is a good idea. I was thinking of re-purposing the chalk board side of my easel into a felt board but then thought it was too high for the under 2 children to reach.

I am really finding my daycare to be a time vacuum lately. I seem to work 7-5 and then in the evening and then on weekends all doing daycare stuff or cleaning or prepping so I am just tired of sinking time into it. When I thought about going to Michaels for felt and to the craft store or the hardware store to find a back and then buying special glue to adhere it I could just feel my time going out the window. Not to mention the time to actually put it all together. I need to start saving time.

The best idea is definitely to make it and there were tons of great blogs and pictures to show you how to make a great felt board but I just cringed thinking at the time and whether i would be able to pull of something decent after all that. Shhhh! But I am really not that crafty. lol