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Road Sign Locker Decoration

At our school we take turns decorating the lockers. When it was my turn, I had to decorate for a big tournament. I did not want to do the usual "cutesy" stuff, but instead wanted something that was more masculine. These turned out great and the guys loved them. I then made similar decorations for the girls, but with cheerleading silhouettes.

I measured the lockers and then cut strips of paper to completely cover each door. I used red for the girls and black for the boys. I added 3 inches on each end so I could wrap the paper over and under the locker door. I found the paper stays on better and looks nicer if you do this.

I cut an opening the exact size of the handle and lock.

I turned my paper over and reinforced the back with clear box tape. You can use any kind of tape for this. I used this kind because it was all I had on hand. I think masking tape is probably the easiest to use. When you first start this step you might want to use 6 or 7 inch strips of tape until you get used to applying it

I put a lot of extra tape around the cutout for the door handle and lock because I knew it would get a lot of wear.

I printed out my "Road Sign" poster (You can find these here). I used card stock for this because it is sturdier and looks nicer when glued on.

I made sure to print the lockers signs small enough to fit at least 10 on each locker.

I added their names and numbers to one of the road signs.

For the girls I added several road signs with cheer silhouettes on then.

After I cut each sign out I laid them on the red paper. I moved them around several times and finally found an arrangement I was happy with.

I wanted to sponge paint a few words on each one. Before I did this I laid the sponges on the paper and moved these around until I was happy with their placement.

A lot of the cheerleaders have lockers right next to the basketball players so I wanted to make sure they would look nice next to each other. Before I glued anything to the girl's decoration I went ahead and made the boys.

I laid it on the floor next to one of the girls. I wanted to make sure I liked how they looked next to each other.

I did the sponge painting next. I wanted to use stop light colors so I bought red, yellow and green craft paint.

I only used a small amount of paint in my bowl because this keeps the sponge from getting too full of paint.

I used green near the top of each decoration. I did not draw a line to print on, but instead laid a ruler on the paper and used it as my guide.

I printed the girl's names in the same color and same location on their decoration.

I used the yellow paint in the middle of the players and cheerleaders locker decorations to spell out the word "Caution". Once again I used a ruler as my guide.

I used red for "Danger" on the boy's locker.

The red did not show up on the girl's paper so I used black paint instead.

I had a few problems getting the cardstock to stick to the black wrapping paper. It was so shiny that craft glue would pop off of it when it dried. I ended up having to use a hot glue gun for this.

I had to put a ton of glue on each sign. If I did not glue all around the edges the signs still wanted to pop off when the glue was dry.

The red paper was from a big jumbo roll our school has for bulletin boards. Any glue or tape would have stuck to it, but I went ahead and used my glue gun.

We always try to match the guys candy with the locker decoration theme. Since it was close to Valentine's Day, I had planned on buying foil covered chocolate that was shaped like a stop sign. These are usually easy to find in January, but I couldn't find them. So I bought giant "Hershey" bars and made new wrappers for them.

This was a lot easier to make than I thought it would be. All I did was find two signs that were close in size to the shape of the candy. I enlarged them and printed them out on orange and white card stock.