Motivating Monday/Class Decor

Happy Labor Day!  I hope everyone has been enjoying the time off!  I spent some time helping my mom and running errands!  When I got home, I got in the spirit of fall...who is this person? I love the 80-ish degree weather and do not want summer to end.  But, I wanted to burn a new candle, so a fall scent it is!  Anywho, I got to thinking this weekend about spicing up my classroom.  Although we have already started our new school year, I felt a change was needed.  As many of you know, it takes a long LONG time to set up a room and can also take a lot of $$$ in some cases too!  I've slowly changed the color decor/theme over the past couple of years.  After 15 years, a change is needed!  I headed over to the best way (in my opinion) for any teacher to get inspired ("pinspired") or a way that we SHOULD earn professional development hours: Pinterest.  Pinterest is an addictive awesome way to get inspired for sure! After searching around, I decided to start small.  So, for the motivation part!  I needed some motivation to head into the classroom everyday.  I love my room for sure, but needed something "else" to keep me inspired.  I think my classroom should be an inviting place that I feel happy to be in as well as others when they come to visit.  For that "small" idea...tissue paper pom-poms, flowers, whatever you'd like to call them!  This brought back a ton of memories making those small tissue paper flowers with the pipe cleaners when I was leading a summer camp.  Seemed easy enough...now I just have to figure out how I'll hang them on my bulletin board tomorrow.  I plan on putting them where I display the kids work.  Afterall, I want the kids to feel proud of their work and it should be displayed in a fun way!