Door Signs
 

Hey all! We are wanting to make door signs for all of the new members to give them on bid day so they can put them on their door in the dorm if they live on campus but could put up somewhere else. Does anyone have any ideas that don't cost that much to make?

Cut out a teddy bear silhouette out of colored posterboard and decorate it with paint pens/glitter glue and write a message to the new members on it. The Theta chapter at Columbia hangs black and glitter gold kites on all of their new members' doors and it looks really cute.

We tended to do simple construction paper ones. For us, Letters that fit into a heart and then one year letters with polkadots on them. It's time consuming but not that big of a deal.

Cutouts of a symbol with letters drawn on (by one of those girls that has the cute handwriting) or Cut out letters are fun.

We put our in our windows my sophomore year in the Greek dorm so all the freshmen next door could see them. And then they got their own on bid day.

We always did cut-outs, but we also used balloons as well, to give it a more celebratory feel. It helps if you have a helium tank on campus, which we did. Getting balloons is like having a birthday! :)

My door sign was just on posterboard, but it was cute.

It's easier to pre-make them now and add the new member's names as soon as you make last cuts (or recieve your new member list, however your PHC does it).

It's a good way to use up that last bit of helium from recruitment. Although my fingers hurt too bad by the end of the week to blow up more balloons

/cursed with the ability to tie balloons

I am trying to get my idea finalized right now so i can go ahead and make them and not worry about them during recruitment.

Another way to go is cutting the letters out of posterboard and spray painting them. This is more for big window letters though.

You could also have a get-together with your sisters and paint letters so that they're more unique. Everyone could make a set or two, so it wouldn't take too long, and then you could go out afterwards.

One thing to keep in mind is that construction paper fades rather quickly in sunlight.

We would make our new members a "Pi Love" -- a TT cut out of blue posterboard, with the new member's name written in silver paint pen, and connected it to a white heart with a sisterhood poem also written in silver.

The Tri-Deltas made a connecting ring of Deltas with their new members' names, and the DG's did an anchor.

You could do a "Xi Love" or you could also cut your letters our of posterboard, punch a hole and connect them with ribbon. Write the new members' name on the letters in paint pen. Or maybe a pink rose cut out-- or a Bear.

We don't have recruitment until the Spring, so we have the whole semester to get ready for the new girls. We put signs over top of the door that say "Welcome HOME" (with the OM as Phi Mu, but you could change it to say Welcome Home and then put your letters underneath.) We do it on like black butchers paper and use silver paint pens and pink paint. We also have cut out lions with clouds coming (both pink posterboard) off of it that say, "My Dream Came True, ________ is a Phi Mu" Ten we have a third poster that is an original one--like "Some say it's lonely at the top, they must have never been a Phi Mu," or "Star light, Star bright, we got the wish we wishd last night, _________is a Phi Mu" etc, etc... we also put up balloons and streamers.

Last year we did cut out of BetXi Bear.

The year I was in charge of Bid Day I made about 30 cut out Teddy Bears with AXiD on its belly and the name of the NM of the foot.

I still have mine! It was a blue crown on posterboard with ZTA written in silver glitter. It was small-- about five inches long (that's why it fits in my scrap book), and had a fresh flower taped to it.

I don't think you need to get crazy with it. Simple is fine. Believe me.. the girl who gets it will be so excited she's getting a bid, she won't be evaluating what the door sign looks like!

Amen to simple, but there are great things like funky ribbons or spray giltter that can make a simple design pretty awesome.

We always give our pledges some kind of posterboard symbol on Bid Day for their doors. My year, there was a teddy bear that had a green ribbon for the bow on its head with "PC '05," "Kappa Delta," and my name on it.

Last year, we gave out big posterboard roses. Get a group of members to help you out and save time.

Our PHC decided that calling new members "Baby Turtles/Hooties/Ladybugs/etc" was demeaning and therefore, hazing.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Whatever you do, make them sturdy. At several colleges where we toured the freshman dorms in April, the women had door signs still posted from their Bid Days in January or even September. The posterboard holds up much better than construction paper in terms of color retention and durability

We did a combination of things... We would do posterboard signs each year which related to our theme for that year. For example one year we had a movie theme and each NM got a posterboard with "You're a new Sigma Star" on a dressing room type of star on their door. Every year we would do basic construction paper letters that every initate signs to welcome them and during the bid day activity (normally a picnic or dinner or something) a few of us would sneak out and put the letters of NM's doors so when they got home they already had a set of letters on their door.

I think in the long run something that is personalized and done with love is always great. I love the idea of putting a fresh flower on the sign, but does it stay up until the NM sees it?

We do door decks and each member is require to make a certain number of signs (but they are small) and if they live in the doors we find out there room numbers and decorate the doors for them! It's really fun and looks so cute! We get all sorts of creative sayings like "You picked the right one baby" with letters all around, "Home Sweet ______", "There's no place like _________,"
and all sorts of stuff! If they don't want to keep the door decks on the door, the girls normally take them off and hang them in their rooms! Hope that helps!

We use foam shaped into flowers & then used glitter pens to put their name on them! :D

another idea is to find wrapping paper that has a trendy pattern or something related to your sorority (teddy bears, etc). cut out posterboard letters and then spray glue the wrapping paper to them and trim.

We always do a Hawaiian theme for our poster-boards (sort of tradition/symbol associated with my chapter)...I've become an expert at drawing hibiscus and siamese cats with hula skirts. I still have my door sign from my bid day...3 years later! And those girls must be QUICK man...there's only like an hour between bids going out and reception of NM's, NMs go back to their dorms and POOF! There's their door decorated with posters/streamers.

My last year at school we gave out Diamond boards to all our New members. They were painted blue with stars in the corners (like our pin) and had the letters on them.

I can't remember how we got the names of our Alphas on them? That year was such a blur and it's been awhile...

All of the active sisters also made one to make all their own. Mine was painted bright blue and had a design similar to our pin with my initiation year and name in small letters on it.