Bathroom Pass Freebie!

Hey all!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!   I know I did!  With every year that passes, I think I become a little more thankful and realize even more just how blessed I am.

And for those of you brave souls that are grabbing those Black Friday deals right now, I admire you!  Instead of shopping, I am working on school stuff before I put up our Christmas tree and decorations--my favorite!!  But before I am off to Christmafy my house (yes I just made that word up), I thought I would share a little freebie with you.

In my kindergarten classroom I am lucky enough to have a bathroom.  However, the use of the bathroom still needs to be regulated for a few different reasons:

1: to make sure we are taking care of it and using it properly (no big messes) 

2: to make sure students are going when they actually need to and not a gazillion times a day just 'because'

3: because there is no lock on the bathroom door (so they cannot lock themselves in or out) so I need to know when students are in there so they do not walk in on each other.

My only rule with the bathroom is that they have to let me know when they are going so I can monitor all the above issues.  But that results in 20 some 5/6 year olds asking all day long if they can use the bathroom....so this year I started using these easy passes and it makes my teacher life much easier!

These sit on a shelf next to our bathroom.  When a student needs to use the restroom they simply grab the pass and set it on their desk.  This way I can easily see who is in the restroom at any given time and my students can also.  They know if the passes are not there that means someone is in the restroom and they need to wait.  This cuts back on their need to ask me every time they need to go.

BONUS--it is HAND SANITIZER!  Meaning when they return the pass after they have used the restroom they also get a squirt of 'hanitizer' as my kids call it!  The more germs we can kill in a classroom, the better!!

These passes are in black and white--I just print them on colorful paper and tape to hand sanitizer bottles.

 To download these passes, click here.

 I hope you enjoy!  Now off to set up my Christmas tree!!  :)