The ideas below use essential oils my favorite! Place a few drops of essential oil on a cotton ball or handkerchief and tape to the back of a fan in your classroom. Use an essential oil diffuser at school to help cut down on odors in the classroom. Place the diffuser on top of a tall file cabinet or bookshelf out of the reach of children. Stinky trash can? Place a few drops of lemon essential oil on a cotton ball and place the cotton ball in the bottom of the trash can to reduce odors. Place a few drops of citrus essential oil in a glass spray bottle and fill with distilled water to create a natural air freshener.
Use fewer drops of oil for a subtle smell or more drops to increase the intensity of the scent. Place a few drops of your favorite essential oil on a scarf, my favorite is Peace and Calming.
While it may not fill the room, you will smell amazing all day long! Add a few drops of lavender essential oil to your favorite play dough recipe to create a calming effect. Attach a bandana or handkerchief with a few drops of your favorite essential oil to the air duct in your classroom to naturally diffuse scents throughout the room.
The oils I use and love are listed on my essential oils information page. While there are many ways to make your classroom smell amazing I do want to caution you about allergies. As somebody who suffers from chemical sensitivities and severe asthma, scents can be a big concern for me. I am fine with light, natural aromas but the harsh chemicals found in most household cleaners and air fresheners can cause a very bad reaction. When choosing scents to use in your classroom, keep them as natural as possible.
Privacy Policy. I'm Vanessa, I help busy Pre-K and Preschool teachers plan effective and engaging lessons, create fun, playful learning centers, and gain confidence in the classroom. As a Pre-K teacher with more than 20 years of classroom teaching experience, I'm committed to helping you teach better, save time, stress less, and live more. Remember buying a package of super awesome pencils — maybe covered with glitter which would then end up all over your pencil case , or maybe covered with your fave TV characters — and sharpening a bunch of them to be extra prepared?
The smell of pencil shavings hits us in the feels every single time. When you first walked into those halls, it smelled like lemon, or pine, with a little bit of bleach. The floors were shining, and everything was so clean after three months of the kids being away. Such a sharp smell of plastic — and so shiny and new. Trapper keepers must have been made in heaven. Bonus points if it was a Lisa Frank. So many things to color! The possibilities are endless!
Those textbooks were probably sitting in a dark closet for the past three months, and cracking them open was always a reminder of that fact.
Unless they were brand new textbooks, which were a totally different aromatic experience: fresh off the printing press. Either way, the smell of one of these bad boys covered it up:. Maybe you had a new backpack for that first day, and it had that fresh, plastic-y smell; maybe you used the same one for several years, and it was starting to smell a little musty in there from being closed up for the past three months.
Or maybe, you left all your old school supplies from last year in it, and it smelled like a combination of graphite, notebook paper, and the faded scent of that watermelon eraser from last year.
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