Display Boards

[msusigma]

Hey laides,
I'm looking for some ideas to make display boards that will sit on tables during our formal recruitment parties. I'm doing three boards, a pink/red/coral Activities board and table, a blue/green/yellow color themed Philanthropy board and table, and a purple themed Sisterhood table. There will be pictures from the chapter, shirts, plaques, big/lil presents and the like.

I've never done anything like this before, and I'm very excited about it. Is there anything else I can do to make the tables or boards look really cute? What has worked for your chapter?

I wish all of you the best of luck in your recruitment, SLAM
Demetria Johnson
Education Director
Gamma Psi - Morehead State University, Morehead KY

[sigmagirl447]

You can use some boxes or crates underneath your fabric to add some height to the tables. Just having the boards up and stuff laying on the tables is kinda boring. I've seen lots of chapters that put tables out from the walls and build them up with old cardboard boxes covered in the table fabric and then placing photos, shirts and trinkets on the levels. If you pull them away from the walls they can be viewed from all sides and that prevents a traffic jam in front of a table.

Another good idea is to make a clothesline of sorts on a wall to display activity shirts and photos. You can use the 3M command hooks (the ones with the sticky tab that you attach to the hook), those work well on all types of walls and once you pull the tab off, if leaves virtually no marks on the wall. Using a thin rope, string clothespins on the rope and then make a small loop in the ends of the rope and loop on the hooks. Then hang shirts, pictures, really anything you can hang up there with a clothespin. That makes an interesting backdrop on a wall. The cool thing about this idea is that you can make them as long or as short as you need them to be to fill in a space.

I've also seen chapters that will attach pieces of vinyl lattice to tables with wire around the legs. This adds height to the back of a table. You can push the table with the lattice attached up against the wall and then hang things from the lattice. You can get pieces of lattice pretty cheap at any hardware/lumber store like Lowes.


Hope this helps and I'm sure I will think of some more things.

[sigmadork]

i like the idea of putting different levels on the tables. also, the idea of the clothespins. this would work perfectly for our cob, not so much for formal due to our theme.

[sigmagirl447]

The levels work out really well. You can display so much more than just the board and things placed on the table. If you pull the tables away from the walls, you can still put the boards up and they can be seen from both sides of the table. But of course, this depends on how large your assigned room is.


As for the clothesline idea, I'm sure you can find a way to jazz it up for your Hollywood/movie theme.

Originally Posted by sigmadork

i like the idea of putting different levels on the tables. also, the idea of the clothespins. this would work perfectly for our cob, not so much for formal due to our theme.

[sigmadork]

hey, so true. like silver/black/red pins. ooo! or silver rope.

[strangisj]

A fun way to add some "bling" to your table.. Go to Ikea or Target and buy a really inexpensive tall glass vase. Then, go to www.flashingblinkylights.com and search for purple gel cubes. Fill you vases with water and when the gel cubes touch liquid, they glow. You can fill the entire vase with these and they glow really cool! It's eye catching! You could also fill it with glow sticks, or anything else that really lights up! Might be fun?!

[msusigma]

you, are fantastic and your ideas worked PERFECTLY and we had PNMs comment on how pretty our tables looked, thank you so much for your fantastic ideas. SLAM