Chalkboard Tabletops!

We have been SO excited to share our favorite Classroom Makeover project that we've done this year!...Our CHALKBOARD TABLETOPS! We started out with all of our tables being a boring wood color like this:

These are the supplies we used:

We first primed all of our tables. (We had our primer tinted to a dark gray, and did two coats to ensure full coverage.) It dried pretty quick! We put one coat of primer on all of the tables (about 8) in one of our rooms, and then did the same in the other room. By the time we got back to the tables in the first room, they were ready for the second coat!

After the second coat was dry, we applied the first coat of Chalkboard Paint. It goes on pretty thin at first, so we ended up doing 3 coats of the chalkboard paint on each table. Just like we did for the primer, after we applied one coat to all of the tables in one room, we would go to the next room and do the same. We went back and forth between rooms to apply the next coat. For 8 tables, we used about a can and a half of the chalkboard paint all together. (It is about $10 a can at Lowes.) Great deal huh?! Another nice thing about painting these table tops was that we didn't have to do any dreaded prep work like taping! Here are what our tables looked like with 3 coats of chalkboard paint applied:

We wanted to add our own personal touch to add some color and cuteness to our tables that coordinated with our rooms, so we did this:

Emily used bright colored Duct Tape around the edges of her tables. She got the duct tape at a variety of stores including Walmart, Michael's Arts and Crafts, and Lowes. They turned out super cute huh? Note: Duct Tape Brand is the ONLY tape that will stick to the tables!

Kassidy used this acrylic paint in the color "Ocean Breeze" for the dots around the horseshoe tables, and a white acrylic paint in the same brand for the student tables. She used a round sponge brush to apply the dots. (She used the largest size sponge in the pack). The paint is from Michael's Arts and Crafts, and the sponges are from Walmart.

 

Our chalkboard tables are by far our FAVORITE project we have done this summer! We are really happy with how they turned out, and we think the students will have SO MUCH FUN writing on them this year! We will be sure to post our students doing activities with our new chalkboard tables this year. You can use them for practically anything...a quick quiz, handwriting practice, as a reward, you name it! We just LOVE projects that are simple, functional, and of course cute! This project fits into all of these categories!

 If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to comment below or email us at keclassworks@gmail.com. We'd be happy to help in any way!

Thanks for visiting! Keep checking back for more upcoming projects!

-Kassidy and Emily