I usually do this AFTER school so I don’t accidentally hit a kid on the head with a marker when I am swinging it around. The centrifugal force will force the ink back toward the tip. Lastly, use the power of centrifugal force and tie or tape a string to the bottom of the marker.I didn’t know until I tried it that the tip of the marker is chiseled on both ends. Use a pair of pliers and take out the tip, turn it around, and reinsert it into the marker.If you have been storing the marker with the tip up, store it horizontally for a couple of days and it might start working again.Now if you have a marker that a student tells you is dried out, you may be able to bring it back to life. So what is the RIGHT way to store your markers you ask? HORIZONTALLY! If you store your markers with the caps up, they will dry out quickly! If you store them with the caps down, the ink will pool out of the pen when you write. One of the greatest frustrations I have had with dry erase markers is that the tips seem to dry out so quickly! According to the Expo website, their markers should last you up to two years! Wow! I think two months was more like it for me, until I discovered that I was storing my markers the WRONG way. In fact, I have had some that lasted up to three years. ![]() Most will last for the entire school year. These white boards worked great for me to use for class competitions and Jeopardy games. Attach a craft stick handle to the back of the board using the duct tape.Tape the edges with colorful duct tape.Next cut into the desired size, but make sure your piece is folded so you have two thicknesses of poster board. ![]() ![]() Here are the steps I followed to make the one shown in the picture. I have also made very functional whiteboard paddles using poster board, duct tape, and a craft stick. ![]() One sheet is enough to make at least 24 boards and that’s a pretty good price. You can buy a sheet of tile board (the boards used to line shower stalls) at your local home improvement store, and if you’re lucky, some nice store clerk will cut them up for you. Seuss (2) Drawing (8) Earth Day (3) eCards (1) Ellison Die Cuts (1) End of Year (4) Fairy tales (1) Fine muscle (2) Five for Friday (40) Flashlight Press (10) Food (4) Freebies! (23) French Lick (1) Friendship (1) Funny Kid Friday (41) Games (3) Garage sales (1) Gifts (1) Giveaways! (6) Gotta haves (19) Green Thumb Projects (4) Guided Reading (1) Halloween (1) Hats (3) Healthy Kids (4) HUE animation (3) HUE Camera (5) Hygge (1) IKEA (3) Jump ropes (1) K teachers (3) K-5 ELA (1) Kidpeople Classroom by Design (3) kids' photos (1) legislation (1) Lego (1) Let's Talk About Books Linky (10) letter centers (1) Liebster Award (2) Lilybell (1) Linkys (5) Little Free Libraries (2) Logo (2) loose parts (1) Maker space (2) Mask Holders (1) Masks (1) Math (12) Mo Willems (4) Monday Made It! (10) Monday Meet Me (1) Monday Motivation (1) Money making (1) Monsters (9) Mother's Day (1) Movement (4) Music (2) Names (1) New Year (1) NYC (1) Oral language (2) Organization (8) Other blogs (2) Outdoor Activities (4) Painting (1) Parents (6) Pets (1) Pick 3 Pins (13) pinning pages (1) Pinterest (8) Planting and Growing (1) Play ideas (2) Poetry (2) Pokey pins (1) Pumpkins (1) Punctuation (1) Reading (3) Recipes (7) Relationships (1) Report cards (1) Responsive Classroom (1) Retreat (1) Routines (1) Science (6) Sensory (1) Shared reading (2) Show and Tell linky (8) Show and Tell Tuesday (2) siblings (1) Sight Words (2) Small World (2) Snacks (2) Snow (9) Songs (4) Spark Saturdays (2) spring (3) St.Buying whiteboards is expensive, but there are cheaper alternatives. Get stocked for back to school with Expo Markers & Accessories from Dollar General. (9) Diversity (1) DIY (5) Dollar Store (1) Donors Choose (1) Dozen Day (1) Dr. 100th Day (1) 50th Day Half Party (2) Anchor charts (2) Animation Projects (2) April (1) April Fools (1) Arts and Crafts (20) Author study (2) Back to School (9) Bargains (9) Behavior (3) Best Bloggers (3) Birthdays (2) Black History Month (1) Blog hop (1) Blogging (6) Books (36) Brain based research (1) Brain Breaks (3) Bugs (3) cameras (2) caterpillars (1) Centers (1) ChatterPix (2) Chocolate cake (1) Christmas (1) Chuckles and grins (6) Class books (2) Classroom Curtains (1) Classroom decor (14) Classroom design (5) Classroom display (1) Classroom Fondue (1) Classroom Tour (1) Classroom Tour Video (1) Coding (1) Communication (2) Conferences (2) Corn (1) Counting (4) Cross-curricular (3) Currently.
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