Thirty seven years of teaching school is in my past and my future is full of hope and promise.
One year everyone at our school was tired of doing Red Ribbon week. They felt that they were being asked to do too many things so they sort of boycotted the whole idea. My class really wanted to do something and I did also, but I didn’t want to have to do too much because time was short. We came up with an idea that the students could help with and would take very little time.
Using the dye cutters that we had in our work room we made up saying that had to do with drugs. Using a roll of colored butcher paper we chose a different color for each saying and made a large hand made sign with the saying on it. Then each student signed their dye cutter item and taped it to the sign.
The students helped to come up with the sayings and were encouraged to find positive sayings as well as negative sayings. Here are some of the ideas, but we were only able to use five of them because there were only five days in the week.
Give Drugs the Boot, you can use brown paper to dye cut a boot. Have a Ball Without Drugs, use white paper and dye cut a ball, then let the students decorate their ball. Stomp our drugs, use and color paper and dye cut a foot print. Give Drugs the Slip, use yellow paper and dye cut a banana. Sock it to Drugs, you can cut out a sock and have the students decorate the sock and use any color. Drugs are Unbearable, dye cut a cute little Teddy Bear and have the students decorate or color it and use brown paper.
Say Boo to Drugs can have a ghost dye cut in white paper. Drugs hurt, you can dye cut a band aid and have the students put in the dots and sign it. Walk out on Drugs or Drugs are Sneaky and dye cut a tennis shoe or sneaker in a variety of colors. Leave Drugs Alone, you can cut a leaf in a variety of colors and have the students color and sign.
If these are not enough ideas then go into your dye cutters and see what you have and then make up your own saying or better yet have the students make up their own sayings.
The students can paint the sign and have fun doing it.
The rest of the story is that after my class decided they wanted to do it the rest of the school decided to do it with us because it was simple and easy to do.
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