Baseball decorations

[mmeyer1008]

I found a wonderful baseball themed bulletin board to assign Classroom Duties. It is entitled "Pitch In and Help" and involves a baseball player with baseball gloves surrounding him/her with the titles of the duties on the gloves. Each student has their own baseball with their name on it, and the baseballs are placed inside the gloves for the particular duties. I have looked online and at my local Learning Shop store and I cannot find any baseball decorations! I have found the baseball player, but now I need the glove and baseball. My artistic skills are awful, so drawing them really isn't an option. Has anyone seen anything out there that might work? I really want to do this board...
Thanks for the help!

[Krafty]

If you have any of the Microsoft office products, you have access to their clipart online. My church did a baseball theme for Relay for Life this year, and I found all the elements for my banner in the MS online clipart. Just look for the basic element you want in any given picture. You can copy and paste it into the software (I prefer PowerPoint to do this). Once pasted into the document, you can ungroup the clipart and manipulate it. Then print, cut it out, trace onto your construction paper, cut again and laminate. If you have a color printer, you could get it to your liking on the screen first and print your copies. I'd lean toward construction paper personally.

Do you have a Walmart nearby? They have a section of teacher stuff in the back-to-school aisle, but I can't say I saw baseballs.

I did a quick search and found this ball in glove notepad
http://www.teachersparadise.com/c/product_info.php/products_id/7370
I think you were going for a seperate ball and glove, but I think combined will still work.

Don't sell your artistic skills short - drawing is not my strong suit, but give me clipart and I can do great things :D

Good luck.

[melissae]

Try a scrapbook store. They sell all kinds of diecuts, stencils, etc. They usually have lots of baseball themed papers too.

Good luck!