How to make a Class Rules poster

I get to move into my classroom on Monday! I thought I would be taking over my cooperating teacher from student teaching's room, but recently found out I would be moving into a portable! That means lots of wall space, great storage, and a clean slate to decorate!

I have decided to make a lot of my own posters to save some money. Today I am sharing how I made a Class Rules chart with only materials from the Dollar Tree. Let's just say that store has AWESOME teaching materials!!

I started off with just half a sheet of white poster board.

Dollar Tree sells borders as well -- tons of designs, curved and straight lined ones. I chose a neutral ABC and 123 border to outline my rules. They also have lots of borders with shapes, patterns and words. 

Then I measured out the borders to perfectly outline the border of my white poster board and glued them down to create this...

It is a little skinny, but works for just a few rules. If you have many long rules, I would advise not cutting the poster board in half. Then I chose how I wanted to decorate my rules and where to place them and started writing in permanent marker. I will probably laminate my board once I get to the school because I know I will be using for years after this. Here is the finished product!

I hope you found this helpful! Once again, everything was found at the dollar store, and I didn't even use all of the borders or poster board, so I have leftovers! All in all, this project came out to be about $1.00! 

What are you creating for your classroom?