My sad attempts at being more domestic...continued :)

So, the last week in January, my school participated in a county wide initiative to get students excited to read called Literacy Week. So naturally, I just HAD to participate because I am a sucker for anything to get my wayward students to even remotely think about reading in a fun manner. We teachers could choose different ways that we could actively, voluntarily participate and one of our options was to decorate our classroom door with a character or a book that we enjoyed. After much thought, sketches, and plans and coming off my completion of Harry Potter, I decided that I needed to honor the Hogwarts spirit by theming my door Potter pretty! I decided that I would create a tribute to all the Gryffindors at heart and came up with the idea of hanging a Gryffindor flag, with a golden snitch and the Hogwarts train station sign on and around my door. I didn't want to emblazon HARRY POTTER so obviously on my masterpiece, so I opted to create a conversation starter door, one in which my fellow Muggles would understand and appreciate and also one that the other students who weren't on the Hogwarts Express to loving Harry Potter could ask me questions about, which would hopefully inspire them to read it. Here are some pictures that I took of my labor of love. I didn't win the best door contest, but having the kids excited, if only for one week, about what I was reading and what they wanted to read was totally well worth all the glitter! (I figured this was a post worthy of being called being domestic! :))