At the beginning of the school year, my passes start out laminated and pristine. I even made them into "necklaces" by attaching them to yarn. I wanted the passes to be as hands-free as possible, especially in the bathroom. YUK!
At the end of the year, my passes were a sad sight. They were crumpled and bent and torn and stapled and taped and mended. I knew that I was going to need new passes, and perhaps a better system for keeping them in good condition.
Well, I turned to a place where I can always find a solution - PINTEREST! Thanks to the creativity of another teacher, Tara (her blog is called 4th Grade Frolics), I saw the light at the end of the hallway!
Hall Clips really eliminate the need for multiple passes; I had a pass for the library, one for the office, one for the bathroom, one for the library...you get the point. With a Hall Clip board, students can grab a clip (wooden clothes pins), attach it to their shirt sleeves, and roll on to their destination. This is especially convenient when students visit the restroom, because the clip is out of the way of some icky bathroom germs.
Since I will implement the Hall Pass system as described in my last post, these Hall Clips will be used for random hallway movement (like if I send a kid to run an errand). Of course, the clips are bound to get broken or lost during the year, so buy yourself a bag of wooden clothes pins.
I got the board and paints to make the finished product at Hobby Lobby for less than $10.
