Back To School Countdown

Celebrate the Back-To-School season by making a countdown for your child. Each day of August have your child take one of the strips off of the link until there are no strips left. This means that it is the first day of school!

Directions

• Have your child pick what design he/she wants on the top of the countdown. It could be anything school related: an apple, a bus, a chalkboard, a backpack. Kids think of the cutest ideas. Grab your materials and get to work. *For the chalkboard in the picture, white paint was used on black construction paper.

• Make the top of your countdown using construction paper.
• Count how many days until school for the month of August. Cut that many strips out of construction paper.
• Tape the strips together after linking each one.
• Cut a little slit into the top of your countdown and slip the last strip of paper into it. Tape it up. This part will keep the chain and top of countdown together.
• With a hole punch, put two holes into the top of the countdown. Tie your ribbon in the holes.
• Hang up your countdown.