Create a time-line / checklist: This week copying and laminating - Next week: visit 2 dollar shops. - Two weeks: covering display boxes with matching paper - Three weeks: sea shells and driftwood collection
Your job will be much easier when you hold the stapler at an angle. The staples will stick out a bit at one side - perfect to get hold of them with pliers and pull them out. 
Be careful with your fingers (blow - blow) the glue is very hot and you easily get blisters
Each object needs its own space. Think of a shop window that is more than full with appliances, you can’t distinguish one object from the other, while carefully placed objects attract the attention.
Staple cones or little boxes with contents to the board or little artificial lemons and cherries like in the GREEN FINGERS display.Dragons
Fighting the dragon symbolizes often overcoming our own problems and fear. Making a colourful display can be challenging (see: barriers to creative thinking) but this display shows you that it can be done without much difficulties. So get started and fight your dragon.
What you need:
- material from a previous display if you have
- book and internet images
- coloured paper
- green and red fabric or paper
- blu-tack/stapler/tape/guillotine/scissors/ruler
- you could even create some huge flames from yellow and red paper to to give the fire-spitting dragon a 3D effect (see: display tips)
What to do:
Get some books or internet images (be careful; copyright may apply) about dragons. In our library we have some fantastic books about dragons and one of them devoted each chapter to a different type of dragon. 
Chinese dragons – water dragons – flying dragons – fire spitting dragons – ancient dragons etc. It is remarkable how many types of dragons there are!
I used a green fabric with a red border for the middle panel and used images from a previous display and cut them in shape. I also used new pictures from dragon books (often enlarged) and stapled them to the board.
I covered the left and right panel in red with a green border. The colours associated with dragons.
For the bottom part I used a wide border of dragon tiles. The books are standing in front of the panel so it is no use to cover them with pretty pictures, you hardly see them, but the same border on all three panels connects them.
To view larger images of displays click on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gr8displays/
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You can hang little objects like postcards, notices, little books, art objects etc from the frame. Voile fabric draped over the frame will give it an extra elegance.... let your imagination run wild and try it out!!!
Or you staple boxes to the display board for books as in the above photo or to display all sorts of other materials