But what to do with the display shelves? The missing flyer theme would be sort of boring, so we brainstormed until we remembered the milk cartons which feature missing children. Score! We tried to figure out a way to use real books, but eventually decided to go with a true milk carton look.
First we took cardboard strips and taped them to the front of the shelves to make more support for the paper. Then we took bulletin board paper (brown on one side, white on the other) and folded it to for and taped it up. We used red paper for the sides. The top was created with white poster board, and the blue straw actually goes all the way to the shelf, where it is taped down. We went through a few iterations of this, but the straw finally "broke the camel's back"... ::heh:: and gave us the support we needed. The white lettering is all just printed and cut out, and the red checkerboard and lettering are printed using Publisher and taped on. Same is true with the book images.
We are pretty proud of this one, and it's been getting attention. Win!
