It looks like next Monday will be the 100th school day for 2018! Where has the time gone?!?!

Once a year the school has a nice way to spice up a dreary February by celebrating the 100th day of school. Its a great excuse for extra math too as they find all sorts of ways to come up with the number 100. Teachers from Kindergarten to Grade 2 seem to get into it the most with assignments for parents to help their children glue 100 cheerios to a page or 100 googly eyes to a t-shirt. What we did for the girls a few years ago was put 100 buttons on a t-shirt looking like gum balls in a gumball machine.

Simply take a piece of in-expensive white felt and cut a circle (trace a plate). Take a piece of red felt and cut out the bottom and top of the gum ball machines. We didn’t realize the date had snuck up and with one night to do this I hot glued everything in place. I could have sewed on the felt and buttons but that would have taken some time but made them more wearable. We put it on plain purple t-shirts from the craft store….purple is always a great choice and the bright colours pop! Their teachers were really delighted by the effort we put into making t-shirts for the theme.

COST

The cost to make this…$5 t-shirts….$2 felt…..$4 for buttons in 4 colors from the dollarstore which was enough for both girls tops. So less than $20 for both girls. You could cut the cost in half if you use t-shirts that you already have. Use one that they are just about to outgrow anyway! The photo was taken by the teachers and emailed to me-how sweet!