This year I have become increasingly obsessed with labels. To be clear, not labeling student, or people but supplies and baskets and honestly it makes me so excited! There are several methods and reasons for obsessively printing and adhering labels to everything.
Why I love labels.
- Being able to find supplies easily saves time, for everyone.
- Having clear, often pictorial, labels allows kids to find supplies easily, and better yet allows them to put them away.
- Cleaning up takes less time.
- You can instantly see on a shelf what you have and what you don't,, making planning easy.
Now the fun part, how to make lovely labels
I like to use pictures as well as words on everything that kids will come in contact with because I work with all ages and I like to include the little ones.
To make labels effective they should look relatively uniform, easy to read and somewhat standardized. I also like to label the shelves where things go, that way students are simply matching the basket (or box, bin, whatever) to the picture on the shelf. I like to take painters tape and outline or divide the shelf so that the bins are haphazardly thrown on the shelf.
I am happy to share some of my labels. I created these using Boardmaker software. You are welcome to print out the page, and then cut them out. I use clear packing tape to adhere them to things. You could laminate and use some other sort of adhesive if you chose to go that route. Another idea for pictorial labels is to create a table in Word and then use clip art to populate the table. There is also the Avery Label route. Buying labels is certainly easy and I use them for notebooks, books, and the occasional bin or basket. Avery has free templates for almost every product they make. Even better, Avery has a free download that puts the templates directly into Microsoft Word.
My labels are free on Teachers pay Teachers. The link is on the homepage.
Stay Organized,
Stacy
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