 | Take the cardboard back off a paper pad or cut a piece of cereal box to 8
1/2 x 11
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 | Cut the piece of corrugated cardboard from a box to 8 1/2 x 11
inches. This might require a bit of help from a grownup
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 | Cut the pieces of newspaper to 8 1/2 x 11 inches. You need about 20
of them (give or take). The girls enjoyed tracing the cardboard and
cutting it.
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 | Make a stack of all your materials in this order:
 | paper pad backing (or cereal box) |
 | corrugated cardboard |
 | newspaper sheets |
 | 2 pieces of white paper (so the newsprint doesn't show through the
fabric.
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 | Cut the fabric you've chosen (old pillow cases, tshirts, sheets, etc all
work great!) to about 10x13 inches.
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 | Put the material on top of your stack and flip the whole thing over.
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 | Hot glue the material to the cardboard, pulling tight:
 | we (of course) ran out of hot glue about 1/2 way through and just
safety pinned the material to the cardboard for the last two
sides. It worked just fine
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 | Cut two pieces of ribbon, so they wrap under the bulletin board.
Tape.
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 | Pin or glue your chosen decorations to the board
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 | Hot glue (or tie to safety pins) a piece of string so you can hang your
board |