Build your own classroom easel.
Having an easel in the classroom makes it easy to put up displays. Teachers may wish to incorporate displays in their lectures or have the easel available for students to use when making project presentations. A classroom easel looks just like any other artist's easel. Its three-legged stance is stable and easy to set up along a wall or pushed back into a corner. You can make your easel tall enough to stand on the floor or small enough to sit on a table.
Instructions
1. Cut two pieces of 2 x 3 lumber into lengths of 82 3/8 inches long for the front two legs. Cut another piece of 2 x 3 lumber 81 inches long for the middle/back leg of the easel. Cut a piece of 2 x 4 lumber four feet long; this is the cross-piece across the front legs.
2. Cut the tops of the front leg pieces at a 15-degree angle, making a point at the top.
3. Drill holes in each of the legs. Drill one three-eighths-inch hole in each of the front legs measuring 78 inches up from the bottom of each leg. Drill two holes in the middle/back leg: Drill one of the holes 39 inches up from the bottom and drill the second hole 74 inches up.
4. Assemble the legs. Lay them together, sandwiching the middle leg, lining up the holes. The angular cuts should lay flush against the middle leg from both sides. Push the bolt through the holes and fasten with the wing nut.
5. Attach the cross piece with the easel legs spread. Use wood glue. If you like, you can drill additional holes in the cross piece and front legs and attach with additional bolts.
6. Thread a string through the hole in the middle of the back leg. Put an eye screw into the back center of the cross piece and tie the string to it, connecting the back leg to the cross piece. This keeps your easel from sliding and spreading open too far.
