Terra Alvarez, Resident Assistant, St. Norbert College The most cheap and easy door decoration I ever made were my Paint Sample door tags. In the beginning of the year I asked my residents to fill out some information, which included their favorite color. I went to a paint store and picked up some large paint [READ MORE]

Submitted by Maria Miller, Clarion University of Pennsylvania I made these Hawaiian girls out of construction paper, jewelry flower beads for the hair, pipe cleaners for the leis, and coiled jewelry wire behind in order to make them spring back and forth. I found an online name generator and converted the girls names to Hawaiian. [READ MORE]

Submitted by Mary Young, Resident Assistant, Fordham University Door Tag: I recently did doortags where I took a playbill and where it would normally say “Gershwin Theatre” I put the room name and number (ex. Robert’s 201 Theatre) and where it would have the play name I put the residents name. It’s very easy to [READ MORE]

Submitted by Liz Bukvich, Resident Assistant, University of New England For door decs I made laundry lines and everyone loved them. I made a cardboard template of a shirt and pants, then I used construction paper to make all the “clothes.” I got real clothes pins and some yarn to make the line. I would [READ MORE]

Submitted by Isaac L. Newsome, Resident Assistant, University of North Carolina Asheville I have found that, although residents love having name tags on their doors; they also like having their door decorated to reflect their lifestyle. Sometimes RAs make this difficult by making nametags that can take up MUCH of the door, resulting in the [READ MORE]

Submitted by Katey Genrich, Resident Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago Everyone likes cereal, especially poor and hungry college students! I decided to use mini-boxes of cereal to make door decs! Materials needed: 1. light-weight cardboard pieces (like from large cereal boxes or food containers). 2. mini cereal boxes 3. small paper bowls 4. hot [READ MORE]

Submitted by Chelsea Rich, Marist College I did door tags with an underwater theme. I took foam and cut out fish, hipposs, crabs, frogs, jelly fish, etc and put the resident’s names on them. They were made out of simple geometric figures put together (circles, half-circles mostly) and eyes made out of those goofy eyes [READ MORE]

 Submitted by Angela Reid, Resident Assistant, Westfield State College For the month of April, (since April is associated with April Showers), I made a shower head with rain droplets coming out of them, the shower head was black and outlined in silver sharpie, and the water droplets had names of residents on them, I did [READ MORE]

Submitted by Sarah Biggerstaff, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas Hi All!! My name is _____ but I go by_____. My hometown is ______, ______. Two of my favorite colors are ______ and _______. Here at St. Ed’s i’m studying _______. One cool place I’ve been is ________ but where I really want to go is [READ MORE]

Submitted by Peter Osborne, Resident Assistant, University of Maine at Farmington I took some recycled cardboard (I just so happened to save all of our waste cardboard from my summer job) and cut them into individual pieces of about 4 1/2″ x 5″. I then took some blackboard paint and gave the cardboard two coats [READ MORE]

Submitted by Allison Chandler, Resident Assistant, Miami University of Ohio I made adorable peas in a pod door decs for my residents this year and they all LOVED them. Buy dark green foam paper and cut it into the shape of a pea pod. (Kind of like a banana shape) Then take a lighter shade [READ MORE]

Submitted by Grace Choi, Resident Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago Want to make a creative door tags with just papers? During the summer, when you have spare time, why don’t you invest your time on experimenting with making origami? There are so many origami ideas in Internet or books from your local library. Don’t [READ MORE]

Submitted by Katey L. Genrich, Resident Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago Materials: Images of hula dolls (or any kind of dashboard bobble-head dolls), construction paper, glue or tape, your residents’ names! Instructions: I just searched the internet for images of dashboard hula dolls. I found both ones suitable for the guys and the girls! [READ MORE]

Submitted by Kelly This semester I created table place settings for door decorations. I used construction paper as the placemat, and “set the table” via glue and plates, napkins, and plastic silverware. I wrote the names on the plates. The more colorful the better!! These can be a fun way to bring holiday decorations/celebration to [READ MORE]

Submitted by Katie Genrich, Resident Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago For a great door tag idea, find some cool comics, cut them out and jazz them up with glitter glue. Everyone loves going to their neighbors door and reading the different comics! Be sure to get approval from the comic artist before you use [READ MORE]

Submitted by Jackie Goodfriend, Resident Advisor, Eastern Michigan University This was really simple and fun to make. A good idea for a crafty Resident Advisor! I made snow globes for my residents after the holiday break. I first made snowmen out of construction paper and then glued them to circle backgrounds for the globe. Then [READ MORE]

Submitted by Britt Q. Hoover, Resident Advisor, Western Washington University Consider making dinosaur door tags. The door tag itself is a construction paper dinosaur with googly eyes. In addition, give each resident a special “dinosaur name”. For instance, my resident Sarah is “Tri-Sarah-Tops.” Alexis is “Alexis Rex.” Gary is “Garydactyl.” And so forth. This is [READ MORE]

Submitted by Jeffrey B. Cannon, Mississippi State University At Mississippi State, we always have tons of construction all the time, so I made traffic cones and barrel nametags. I just cut them out and used a sharpie to add a few lines and shading. I also themed my bulletin board to the door tags. It [READ MORE]