I was more nervous than anybody, including the little student herself; but I knew deep inside she'll do just fine.
Here she is on her first day of school!
I saw a picture that a friend posted of her daughter with a "first day" sign and I thought it was such a clever idea to capture this milestone. I did some "research" aka pinterest and saw some adorable and creative ways different parents have done this, and thought to take a stab at it myself.
Here's a brief explanation of how I made the one for my daughter:
I bought the frame from Michael's for about $5 (using their 40% off coupon!), and also a poster board.
I painted the frame - super easy! I cut the poster board to be slightly bigger than the frame opening, and had it lightly taped to the back while penciling in the words.
I stenciled the words using Martha Stewart paper stencils and a pencil.
Then I painted in the stencils. I HIGHLY recommend using a marker instead! =)
Some of the light paint colors allowed the pencil marks to show through, so I had to neatly erase the pencil marks. Also, the paint blobbed through to the back of the stencil, leaving a whole lot for me to clean and touch up. This took a while.
Then I hot-glued the poster board to the back of the frame, then added some cool scrapbook stickers. That part was super easy too.
This was a fun 1-day project to try and I loved how it came out. I'm not sure what to do with it now that her first day is over, but hope that the pictures will leave my munchkin lots of memories to reminisce over.
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