In addition to being a full-time mom, I also have the awesome job of teaching preschool from my home 2 days a week. I love teaching and with such young kids, the preschool curriculum gives me yet another creative outlet. (Not to mention with it only being 2 days a week the stress level is non-existent, so I seriously just have so much fun with this “job.”)
Here is 1/2 of my fun class- aren’t they cute?!
The tutorial I have for you today is partly inspired by this little class of mine. Have a look at this:
Each student in class has their own little chair with their name in vinyl letters. So what do you do when one student has a little too much fun with scissors one day and turns a cute little chair into this:
(By the way, if Jenna’s mom is reading this, it wasn’t her that did this!)
Such a bummer! Luckily, they aren’t expensive to replace and on another “bright note” I now had a new canvas for a pretty sweet project! (This is me looking at the glass half-full, right?!)
So I took this poor little chair and instead of chucking it into the trash (as my husband told me to do!) I did the following:
First, I painted it yellow. I love yellow!
Then, I combined the following 2 tutorials; How to Recover a Chair and How to Use Wonder Under. And rather than bombard you with a zillion pictures of each of these tutorials, I made 1 image for each process, so you can just click on the image you would like to learn more about to enlarge it.
Here ya go!
After all is said and done, look what I now have sitting in the corner:
… and I plan to use it if any other child decides to take scissors to this one!!!
It will also come in handy for my 3 little rug-rats even when preschool is not in session!
So there you have it! Easy, cheap, cute AND useful! It doesn’t get much better than that!
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I love that you were able to take something that would have otherwise been trash and converted it to something *very useful*. Who doesn't need a timeout chair?
I'm so impressed that you were able to fix it!!
How resourceful! WOW!!
Hey, I would LOVE to see pictures of your preschool room if you would like to share!!
I find it quite appropriate that the "Jenna" chair was turned into the "Time Out" chair because I (Jenna) LIVED in time out! And if that was my chair, I probably would have been the ones to take sciccors to it. Hope she's not the terror I was to my teachers
That is great you were able to use it! When our Peditrican moved to a new office she had some little vinyl benches in the examing rooms. And kids poked holes in them. She had to put slip covers on them
That is a great idea! Great job for looking at the glass half full!
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As a mom of a 4 year old and a 2 month old son, I love this! (Not for my 2 month old…)
We miss you guys! Little Miss O is asking about preschool and all her little peeps!
Great chair! Thanks for sharing the how-to!
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~Liz
such a great idea!
and i LOVVVVE your "job" !! It would be a dream for me!!!!
You are too funny! Love the idea!!! My mom us to make me stand in the corner…
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Lori
Ha ha ha..How cute. I need one…er, um, I should say I need 5. Tee hee hee.
What a great idea! It's also a clever use for a piece you might have thrown away. It's too funny that a kid hacked that chair cover to bits with those dull scissors!
Your chair turned out so great! Wonderful project!
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Jen
i love the symbolism behind taking something that happened that likely put a kid in time out into a time out chair.
great way to repurpose it!
Thanks for the tutorial. I have a chair like this, for adults though
that I was tempted to throw out.