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Stamp your way to 100-Day!

Make a 100-Day Banner/Pennant:

• Simply make a template from my pennant master if you want to make smaller banners out of regular size construction paper.
  
• A small banner will fit about 50 stamps on one side so you'll have to print both sides.
• If you use extra-large construction paper, you can stamp just the front.
• It's a good idea to make a sample to show students what the end result will look like.
  


• Trace the the banners on a variety of light-colored construction paper and then cut them out.
• Write students’ names in glitter glue or puffy paint for extra pizzazz.

•  As a center activity, each day have students get their pennant from the “pennant pile”.  This is a safe place (The lid from a copy paper box used as a basket, works great. Place it on a window ledge or shelf).
•  They take their pennant to the stamping center and put the stamp-for-the-day on it.

• The stamps can be seasonal.
• If you’re studying apples, have an apple stamp. Pumpkins are great for October.

•  Students decide if they want to use different colored stamp pads or have their banners be all one color.
  
• I chose brown ink for mine.
  
• If a child is absent make sure that you or a student helper stamps theirs.

•  I have a zillion stamps so this is no problem.  If you don’t, ask other teachers if you can borrow theirs just for the day.
• You can also combine stamps and stickers, or have students copy and draw a secret symbol that you put on the board for that day.

• On 100-Day everyone should have 100-Stamps.
• Really Good Stuff has a 100-Day stamp perfect for that last day  (“Way Cool!”)

•  For my 98^th day I have a caterpillar with wiggle eyes because we wiggled our way to 100 day. 
• On the 99^th day we metamorped into a butterfly and have fluttered our way to 100 Day.  Let your students make a 3-D butterfly for their banners so the butterflies look like they are popping off the page and flying!

•  Each child needs 3 stickers to make one.  Students put the 1^st sticker down.
• The second sticker they cut the “thorax” off so they have two wings.

•  Put the wings back-to-back on the 3^rd sticker so only the thorax (middle part of the butterfly) now remains sticky.
• Press this sticky part down really hard on the middle of the 1^st butterfly and rub it with your fingernail.  Fold each of the wings up and crease. Wahla flying butterfly!

•  If you've used extra-large consruction paper, on 100-Day give them die-cut 100-Day numbers and letters to glue on the back of their pennants.
• Wow! Everyone has a super keepsake to take home, and you have a fun way to count to 100 as they admire their banner and count the stamps and stickers with you.

•  You could also punch a hole in each corner and string their pennants up from the hallway ceiling for a few days.
• Click on the link to view/print the 100-Day banner things.

100-Day Posters:

• Purchase a poster and X things off or color them in.  Really Good Stuff has magnetic ones that you  can add “things” to.
• My poster is a gumball machine.
• I keep it on my white board.  I laminated it so that I can reuse it each year.  Everyday as part of our calendar routine someone X’s a gumball.

• On the 100^th Day of school, each child can earn a penny for my real gumball machine. They think it’s “way cool” that I bring a gumball machine to class and let them put a penny in, after they have completed their Table Top lessons.
• I tell them that they need to “chews” to be a good student all morning, stay on task and complete their work so they can earn that penny to help celebrate the day!

• They LOVE this idea and are anxious to get down to business. You can order counting up to 100-Day posters from Really Good Stuff.  
• Unfortunately when I checked, the gumball one was discontinued.
• Be sure and pop back tomorrow when I’ll be posting “Count to 100-Day with a THEME!” 
  

• Lots of creative ideas to get you excited!
  
• You'll just love wiggling, chugging and fluttering your way to 100-Day!
• If you dropped in to see "Wiggles" today he'll be posted tomorrow.  This article, as you can see, needed to be split into many parts!