Organise Your Classroom With VELCRO® Brand Tape & More

School classrooms are so much more than the tables and chairs where students spend their days. These settings are in fact creative hubs for engagement and innovation, particularly when it comes to making learning fun for younger year groups. Every aspect of the classroom can be decorated and enhanced to inspire pupils, whether that’s through educational wall art, interactive games or systems that reward student success.

When it comes to decorating your classroom, you might not immediately think of VELCRO® as your tool of choice. But it may come as a surprise to learn that VELCRO® Brand products come in a variety of forms, including as adhesive tapes and coins, which can be used in a myriad of ways to enrich your classroom.

Read on to find out more about how you can utilise VELCRO® products to make your classroom fun and interactive.

Organisation

One of the best ways to use VELCRO® in your classroom is for organisation. Classrooms are busy places, where it is easy to feel overwhelmed by clutter. That’s why it’s important to keep essential stationery somewhere where you can always find it. An example of this would be your whiteboard tools, including pens and erasers. When teaching, you may find that you can’t get hold of a pen right at the crucial moment, a problem that can be tackled with VELCRO® adhesive tape. A strip of tape attached to your board and to your stationery can allow you to stick these tools to the board when they’re not in use, so you can always find them when you need them most.

Beyond this, you can also make use of VELCRO®’s ONE-WRAP® Cable Ties to keep your classroom tidy. These reusable ties are ideal for organising children’s stationery, where you can group together assortments of pens, pencils and crayons for easy use. These can then be stowed away neatly, so you don’t have to worry about losing or misplacing resources. Cables and wires in the classroom can also be a safety hazard, where these can be organised with the help of a ONE-WRAP® tie.

Wall Decor

A defining feature of a vibrant classroom is an assortment of wall art, where this helps to brighten up educational spaces whilst enriching the learning experience of every pupil. VELCRO® Brand Adhesive Coins can be used as strong, damage free wall hangings, whether you’re looking to fix charts, maps or inspirational posters.

VELCRO® also offers a Heavy Duty coin range, where these adhesives are designed to hold 2kg per 45mm of VELCRO®. As such, these can be used for hanging weightier decorations, where these could include hand crafted art projects or important signage. Additionally, you can use VELCRO® Brand coins to ensure any rugs or soft furnishings are fixed properly to the floor, where this can help to prevent trips and slips.

Personalisation

Another important aspect of classroom decor is personalisation, where children can learn vital organisational skills by being responsible for their own drawer or container. As such, you can utilise VELCRO® Brand coins or tapes to fix name tags to these storage containers. These labels will be easy to remove and replace, which can help you to update your classroom at the end of each school year. In a similar way, you can also use VELCRO® to create classroom name charts that reward good behaviour or achievements, where the interactive nature of these fasteners will allow you to easily move personalised labels across a chart.

Further to this, you could use VELCRO® Brand products for personalisation tasks beyond the classroom. For instance, in a staff room setting, it can be helpful to label cupboards or lockers with a personalised badge that can easily be removed, replaced or updated. This kind of labelling system could also be useful for organising lunch rotas and timetables for after school activities.

Interactive Fun

VELCRO® Brand products are entirely safe to use in the classroom, meaning they can be utilised in the creation of interactive games and learning activities. You may wish to take advantage of the bespoke options available from MPD Hook & Loop, where you can have VELCRO® Brand adhesive pieces cut to your desired size. These can then be used to engineer homemade board games or lesson plans that are designed to involve pupils in their learning.

Using Your VELCRO® Brand Pieces

VELCRO® Brand adhesive tapes and coins are straightforward to use, meaning you could even involve your students in the decoration of their own classroom space. When applying VELCRO® adhesive pieces, you should ensure that you’re following these simple steps:

1. Clean – Use a damp cloth to remove any dirt or debris from your chosen surface, particularly if you’ve used other wall hangings previously. This surface should then be dried off thoroughly before attempting to add your fastener.
2. Peel – Your coins or tape will come with a peel-off layer that should be removed to reveal an adhesive side to the VELCRO®.
3. Stick – Apply one piece to your wall or surface, and a corresponding piece to the item that you want to fix, where the hook and loop parts will connect.
4. Wait – Although you can hang or fix your item after ten minutes, full VELCRO® Brand strength will be achieved after 24 hours, where this wait time is especially important when hanging heavy items.

When purchasing your VELCRO® Brand products, ensure that you have acquired both the hook and the loop part. Some retail packs will include both pieces, whilst other products are sold separately.

MPD Hook & Loop: VELCRO® Brand Dots & Tapes For Your Classroom

MPD Hook & Loop is a specialist VELCRO® Brand distributor, where we’re proud of our extensive adhesive product range. All of our authentic VELCRO® tapes and coins are designed to provide a long lasting, high quality hold, so you can fasten with confidence every time.

Whether you’re looking for VELCRO® sticky back coins or heavy duty VELCRO® tape, we have the options to suit you. Get in touch with us today to find out more.