MamaBearTeacher Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 What options do I have for putting up posters without damaging the walls? I used to use the blue sticky stuff but it stained. I have a bunch of maps I want to put up but I will rotate them depending on what we are studying. Right now they are lying around my bedroom floor in bags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassy Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I've used Command Strips in the past (you can get them from Amazon); they hang posters much more neatly and, if you follow the instructions, don't damage your walls when you take them down. I have, however, had one wall slightly damaged when taking one off, but that was probably my own fault :blush: . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I use the Command Strips too and there were no stains. The blue sticky ones did stain my walls too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candid Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 If you are okay with some damage, just don't want everything you put up and take down to damage the walls, consider mounting a strip of some sort of magnetic material to the wall and using magnets to attach the posters to the strip. I did this with children's art work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I just staple mine. The staples make teeny, tiny holes, which you can't really even see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaBearTeacher Posted December 28, 2012 Author Share Posted December 28, 2012 The Command strips look good! They would probably have them at Staples too, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 The Command strips look good! They would probably have them at Staples too, right? They have the command strips at Staples. e.g. http://www.staples.c.../product_563844 You might also want to check if 3M has any internet printable coupons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Command strips here too! Target sells them too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotSoObvious Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 I uses these sticky white foam squares I buy at the teacher store. I used then for years in my classroom. I've never used Command strips, so maybe they are similar. But these can stay up for years and not damage your wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 I simply got cheap poster frames from the art supply store (also saw them at Walmart) in standard large poster size. Any posters too small to fit perfect get a trimmed "matte" of construction paper. Cheap - does the job. Means one nail hole in the wall to hang the frame, but easy to switch out posters when you need a change. I just changed two posters in my autistic sons's room from KungFu Panda and Shrek to Frankenweenie and Hobbit. Easy as pie. Plus, the posters do not get damaged. These are the frmaes that are a large sheet of clear heavy plastic (npot glass!), same of cardboard, and four flexible, plastic edges you push on to hold it all together. Yet they look decent. Plus the edges of a poster do not get ragged like when you use the double stick stuff to get it on the wall. The framed posters simply look nicer than just sticking them up with Command stuff (although that stuff is wonderful, too.!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth S Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 I just use masking tape, on white walls. Posters get damaged, but not the walls! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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