TechieM - Mr. A
June 11, 2025
This isn’t a bad set of classroom borders. I’m not the most “modern” teacher but I was looking forward to updating my borders. The colors are very pastel and not the brightest, but that’s what I was expecting from a boho style.Each piece is approximately 14 inches long, which is shorter than most border pieces you will purchase at the big box stores (I assume this is to help for shipping purposes). While not a major deal, you will need to take extra time to make sure each piece is lined up and straight where you want it to be.This border set also includes adhesive pieces which in theory are a nice addition but in practice they’re a hassle. Stick to whatever you typically do to hang these up. I’ve been doing the latest internet trend of hot glue and two pieces of painters tape to help not mark up the walls (it works wonderfully!). These went up without any issue using that method.
Uncle Bob
June 7, 2025
The good: The colours and patterns on these borders are just as shown online. They are muted in colour, which is not typical in a classroom (usually classrooms are full of bright, primary colours, so these borders are different, unique and potentially a good thing for your use). All of the patterns could work together as they are all in the same colour palette.The bad: Each piece of border is only 12 inches long. That's terribly short! Border pieces are usually pre-cut to 3 to 4 to 5 feet long, which makes it quick and easy to put them up on a long bulletin board in a classroom. These ones are so short that they take about 4 times as long to get put up. It's a pain.The dumb: You know when you get a new credit card, and it's stuck to the envelope with that little ball of clear, stretchy, sticky stuff that pulls off as a long string? Ok, well these borders include that stuff as the mounting adhesive. First of all, teachers don't usually tape up borders to walls - we usually mount them on bulletin boards using staples. Second, each little clear ball of sticky stuff is individually squished onto a tiny clear plastic square that is perforated next to dozens of other little plastic squares. Each one needs to be unperforated from the others, and then pulled apart (like a tiny bandaid wrapper). This is super finicky. Just staple these borders up like you would normally do, or use normal masking tape on them, and save yourself hours in trying to get all this sticky stuff off of the packaging.