The Paper Maid

Repurposing old hard covered books.  Not only repurposing them, but actually going to a second hand store to purchase a couple of old hard covered books with the intention to RIP ALL the pages out - never to even read.  Yep.  I really did that.

Here's the big one I got.  There was really nothing wrong with the book.

 But I ripped out all the pages anyway.  LOL

While I was out I also picked up a packet of these:

 And when I came home I went through my paper stash and pulled these out.

Then I went to work.  I covered the front of the book with my pretty paper.

 Then used my guillotine to cut my overhead transparencies to make POCKETS on top.

Yep, I was making a POCKET chart.  Here's what can fit in it - the cards are 6 x 4 so that gives a bit of an indication as to what size cards will fit.

 And it stands up~!!   Admittedly it isn't as big as the ones you can get for classrooms, but I think it shall work awesome for us here at home.

This is my basic pocket chart - and how I made it.  Now to make ones that will do a calendar, other bits and pieces, and my sentence maker.

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