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Submitted by Sarah Papcun, Resident Assistant, Kent State University I made Candy Land door tags for my residents upon returning from Winter Break. I did my floor up Candy Land style! For all of their door tags, I cut out the gingerbread man game piece shape and decorated the raised plastic edging, like the game [READ MORE]

Submitted by Sarah Raub, Resident Assistant, Mansfield University This spring, at my first floor meeting, I handed each of my residents a decorated piece of cardstock. On it was: Name: Room#: If I were… An animal: A superhero: A movie: A shape: A toy: The residents filled out the forms and hung them on their [READ MORE]

Submitted by Michael Chang, Resident Assistant, Georgia College and State University I bought a pack of Pokemon cards and wrote there name beside the Pokemon name. I then printed Facebook photos of my residents. I made the Facebook picture the same size of the Pokemon picture. I taped the pictures to the card and hung [READ MORE]

Submitted by Megan Niemi, Northern Michigan University I collected leaves in the fall season, then pressed and laminated them at our library and wrote resident’s names on them. The door tags where easier to create then I anticipated. The lamination preserves the leaves.

Submitted by Tiffany R. Harris, Mt. Union College Description: I find inspiration through quotes, so I thought it would be a good idea to pass along some inspiration to my staff members through creating quote door decorations. For creativity, I thought it would be good idea to use a variety of magazine letters/words to spell [READ MORE]

Submitted by Samuel Arrieta, Resident Assistant, Colorado State University Hello, I hope this is something that you and your residents can enjoy, I know my residents and I did! Description: This is a door tag I made based on what I thought would be funny, useless powers. If anything else, let this help spark your [READ MORE]

Submitted by Maria Martirano, University of Maryland, College Park For my door tags this year I made a pizza slice out of construction paper and put their name on each of their individual doors. Then I made a whole pizza and wrote their individual names on each slice of the pizza and I hung this [READ MORE]

I’m an RA in an upperclassmen dorm that tends to be a little on the wild side. These door tags work really well because they are incredibly easy to make in case they get torn down, but they also look really nice. I used the nametags as a template and copied and pasted the names [READ MORE]

Submitted by Michael Rizzi, Resident Assistant, Southern New Hampshire University Click here for sample door tags Dia de los Muertos is celebrated on November 1 and 2nd. It is an ancient tradition from pre-Columbian times in which indigenous people celebrated the belief that the souls of their departed relatives return to earth to visit the [READ MORE]

Submitted by Kate Genrich,ARLC for Florida International University,Miami, Florida I am a new pro-staff member at FIU, but I love door decs so much that I made them for my co-workers’ office doors, and I plan on making them for my RA staff as well. I figured RAs could always use another idea thrown their [READ MORE]