Supplies Needed: Cork board squares, puffy paint, tacks Instructions: Buy corkboard squares from Home Depot, Lowes, etc. Write the name in puffy paint. Affix to door and put in tacks for messages.

Supplies Needed: Plastic placemats, puffy paint, markers, string Instructions: Buy cheap plastic placemats from the dollar store. Write the name on it with puffy paint or permanent marker. Glue a string to the placemat and on the other end attach a pen. Attach to the door to provide a placemat memo board.

Supplies Needed: Felt, Scissors Instructions: Cut out felt in a pennant shape. Cut out block letters for the name from felt. Glue the name on the pennant. Use school colors.

Supplies Needed: Construction paper, markers Instructions: Using brown construction paper or butcher-block paper make the truck of a palm tree that will be 1/2 of the height of the door. Then cut out palm branches with green construction paper. Finally, make coconuts with brown construction paper and write the student names on the coconuts. After [READ MORE]

Supplies Needed: Scrabble Tiles, Glue, Construction Paper Instructions: Go on-line to http://www.hasbro.com/en_US/and buy replacement scrabble letters. Spell the name with the letters and glue the letters onto a backing of your choice. You can also photocopy part of a scrabble board and glue the name to the board.

Submitted by Carly Grey, John Carroll University This semester I made door tags, or as we call them at John Carroll, door decs, out of old CDs. After gathering up old CDs (like those AOL ones everyone has gotten in the mail) and getting new ones at the post office, I printed each of my [READ MORE]

Submitted by Melody McGowan, Resident Assistant, Gwyned Mercy College My favorite and best door tag for the year would have to be my smiley faces. I at first thought of the idea from the smiley’s that you get when you go to Wal-Mart, then I went a little farther and decided to use the ones [READ MORE]

Supplies Needed: Successories Cards, Construction Paper, Glue, Markers Instructions: Go to http://www.successories.com and purchase successories cards. Glue the front of the card onto construction paper. Write the persons name on the construction paper. Use puffy paint or glitter glue for a better overall look.

Submitted by See Vang, University of Wisconsin-Madison For my door name tags this year, I mimicked the “platinum album” plaques that the music industry uses. I used black construction paper as the background. I found silver Sharpie markers at the campus bookstore and used them to draw the borders on the background and on the [READ MORE]

Supplies Needed: Twine or Yarn and Bead Letters Instructions: Buy letter beads at the craft store. String them onto yarn to make each students name. Hang them from the door.

Supplies Needed: Black and blue construction paper, white gel marker or puffy paint Instructions: Create a “master circle” by finding an object the size you want and tracing it. Cut this out and use it to trace circles onto black construction paper. Cut out the black balls. Cut a triangle shape out of the middle [READ MORE]

Submitted by Aaron Harrington, Resident Assistant, Tompkins Cortland Community College For door tags I took 8×10 construction paper and made it in to a magazine cover. It was called Tctrizzle Illustrated (after the name of my hall)…obviously simulating Sports Illustrated. Then at my 1st floor meeting I took photos of each resident and put it [READ MORE]

Submitted by Erin Valentino, Resident Assistant, Western Kentucky University I’m a fairly creative person and like to make door decs unique. Some that I have done in the past include: *State License Plates. Using construction paper, I looked up the state’s license plate on line, then re-created them. The student’s initials were the first 3 [READ MORE]

Supplies Needed: Squares of brown particle board (like the back of a clip board – it is available at hardware stores, blackboard spray paint, chalk, ribbon or yarn and puffy paint Instructions: Cut board with a circular saw. Paint the board on the smooth side with the blackboard paint. Once it dries, write or paint [READ MORE]

Submitted by Elizabeth Grant, Director of Monument Hall, Mesa State College Being on Residence Life staff at Mesa State College for the past four years has given me tons of Door Tag/Name Tag ideas. My favorite idea that I have seen was a “free fire alarm pull”. Basically the R.A. took and white paper and [READ MORE]

Supplies Needed: Brown Paper bags (the larger ones from the grocery store), red paint, yellow construction paper, brown construction paper, rubber cement Instructions: Cut the bag open and lay it flat. Draw a large circle on it. Paint it red but leave an edge between the brown paper edge and where the paint begins (for [READ MORE]

Supplies Needed: Magazines, scissors, tape, construction paper Cut out large letters from a magazine to spell the person’s name. Arrange them on a piece of construction paper and glue them on. For your first floor meeting or program have your residents bring their name tags to the meeting/program. Have magazines, glue and scissors available and [READ MORE]