I love seeing creative hall passes. My senior government teacher had two full sized wooden shoes that could be seen all the way down the hallway. Every teacher in the building knew whose class you were from with those shoes. No, we wouldn't actually wear them. Though as I recall one of our football studs did try once and he actually cracked the shoe.
Before I found out that my school had a regulated hall pass system, I saw an amazing idea on Michael's webpage advertisement. I knew it seemed a little kiddish but I figure my high school students might still by into it. And even if my passes do disappear or get damaged, they cost me roughly $2 total.
Items needed for this project:
-Plastic paint can ($3.99)
-Scrapbook paper
-Pens
-unfinished wooden paint brushes ($0.99/each)
-Paint
-Stencils ($1)
I took three of the major colors in my classroom and used them to base my paper design. Forest green, ruby red and marigold yellow. From there I just stenciled "Out of Class" on the yellow paper, which was then mounted on the red, in turn mounted on the green. There was some measuring involved to make sure the paper fit inside the paint can but that's pretty self explanatory. I added a few embellishments courtesy of the scrapbook paper sticker section.
For the paint brushes, I painted the handles yellow and red. Then in a second color I wrote "Pass #1" and "Pass #2" respectively. I did this rather than, "Boys" and "Girls" because sometimes the students aren't headed to the restroom. Additionally, I only allow two students out of the room at a time. This helps me manage that - and a substitute teacher for when they come into the room.
Pretty easy project and it really only took me about forty minutes to assemble it (plus an hour for paint to dry) and for roughly $7 I have two hall passes and storage spot for them. I plan on hanging the paint bucket on a command hook right by the door.
How do you manage bathroom/hall passes at your school?
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