Door Decorating Ideas for Literacy Week

  So, last week was Literacy Week... and somehow between our early in the year inspection from the (very strict) Fire Marshall and our new principal we were allowed/encouraged to decorated our classroom doors.  I have been at other schools that had "door decorating cultures" (ha!) but we have never been able to do it at my current school... and I feel like Pinterest was just becoming a "thing" when I came to my current school (maybe it wasn't even a thing yet... or maybe I was behind on the times and didn't know it was a thing...).  The point is for most of us this was our first "scour Pinterest and figure out what to put on your door" experience.

  As I mentioned in my last post it was also a testing week and about a million other things going on... but the doors were decorated none the less!  And for a "non-door decorating school" I think we did pretty good!  Actually, they were really, really good.  There were "teacher decorated doors" and "student decorated doors".  Some were decorated with photos, some with book reviews and others were decorated as book covers.  This post will pretty much act as my own little Pinterest board as I show off everyone's  cute doors.  (Actually, this is the first round because my camera battery died because... well, because that's how I roll... So, more doors to come!)

My "Super Readers" are pictured below.  The superhero tape was a cute touch and I've gotten lots of compliments on it but it is not very strong... I keep waiting for the whole thing to fall down...

Our art teacher pretty much outdid herself.  Isn't this David Shannon door great?  When my 9 year old twins saw it they literally gasped.  They were especially impressed with the handle.  They think it looks like the handle to Camilla Creme's bedroom (?).  I hadn't really noticed the handle but I find the whole thing very, very impressive!

I love this first grade door.  I love everything about Elephant and Piggy.  they are favorites of mine.  I always love looking at projects like these where the kids are all making the "same thing" but they all look different.  (Look at the elephant with his ears straight up!! Love it!)

This Hungry Caterpillar door was a cute kindergarten class project.  I thought it was a really good "teamwork" project.  Everyone worked on a small part and it came together perfectly!

This door has photos of the kids reading along with their favorite character (and one of EVERYONE'S favorite characters!) Pigeon.

More Elephant and Piggie.  Love, love, love it.

I'd seen this one on Pinterest but I really loved seeing it in person.  The "reviews" that the kids wrote about the books were so cute!  

This one makes me giggle every time.  I thin it is so bright and happy looking.

This is the door to our media center.  Isn't it cute?  It is pretty simple but it is really eye catching and impressive when you walk down the hall.

Hopefully the Fire Marshall won't be making a surprise visit this week!! Everything is much too cute to take down :)  Does your school do a lot of decorating?  Are you limited with how much paper you can hang or are you allowed to go "all out"?  Let me know!