There's something here to match every teacher personality, and most of them are easy enough for anyone to do.
We have gathered a list of fun bulletin boards that teachers can use for ALL occasions; back to school, holidays, birthdays, mindset, and much more!
Make learning adventurous with these camping themed bulletin board ideas. Every school year, most teachers are looking for a new theme to deck out their classroom with. Some teachers may switch it up halfway through the year
Looking for unique hallway bulletin board ideas? These beautiful elementary and middle school kindness bulletin boards are among the best!
Science Bulletin Board templates for 4 boards with ideas for elementary science displays & projects for classroom teachers. Easy & fun ideas for your classroom!
This is an interactive career bulletin board for elementary and middle school students. Students and staff will be curious to find out the types of jobs the teachers and staff had before working at their school. Add new pictures weekly to engage the audience. Includes: Letters for title "Look at some of the jobs we've had..." Picture frames (for adding images of teachers and staff" Speech bubbles with prompts: "My first job was..." "I was once a ..." "One of my favorite jobs was..." 48 royalty free stock photos of careers More Career Goodies: • Career Exploration 16 Clusters Posters, Bulletin Board Letters & Elements
The summer weather has us itching to pick up a good book and inspiring our students to do the same.
Hey guys! Today I want to share with you a few pictures of a camping themed classroom. This is a kindergarten classroom at Oak Grove by Ms. Mason. Bulletin Board A reading corner that looks like a camp site. Behavior chart Calendar and standards board. Classroom jobs/ class leaders board. word wall Closer picture of the word wall. Bathroom... I loved the sign that said outhouse! Back counter with an ant statue. I hope you enjoyed!
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This bulletin board is perfect for your classroom or classroom door to display during the Fall, September, October, and November! The bulletin board kit includes a colorful banner with fall leaf designs, letters that say "We are UN-BE-LEAF-ABLE" to print in color, on colored paper or in black, leaf ...
Here are awesome middle school bulletin boards that do not focus on a specific content area. Growth Mindset bulletin boards.
Organized into themed categories, including options for Red Ribbon Week.
My reading corner is now a...Recycling Center. In the recycling center the students will be able to: Read book about taking care of our Earth Sort plastics, paper, cans, and glass Make an Earth art project (I saw the idea on-line but cannot remember where...if it looks like something you posted, please comment!) Play I spy for different types of recyclables and sight words that are hanging on the newspaper wall Mrs. Ramseier (one of the K teachers I work with...and can I say she ROCKS) had a student teacher, Sabrina Schubert, who came up with this Recycling Center and I LOVE IT! Thank You! Sorting Recycling Pictures ~ I got these pictures from Color "R" World last year at the Early Childhood Conference at UW~Stout. Wendy Sessler and Shell Sturgis are excited to re-open Color "R" World for business once again since Tami retired. Litter Bug Poem {click Here} Click {here} to go the the "Color~R~World website! Also...check out our Earth Day post for the famous Earth (dirt & glue) necklaces! Thank you, Amber
I love bulletin boards. Have I mentioned that? I love making my bulletin boards art. I love putting art on my bulletin boards. Heck...I'll put almost anything on my boards! Here are a few ideas for quick and funky borders using some non-traditional items that you may have laying around your house. Poker Chips I use poker chips for several different things in my classroom, so I have quite a few on hand. They make a great border, don't they? If you have a metal edged board, you can use a glue gun to attach them. If you are working with a board with a wooden frame, the hot glue may damage it. Use glue dots. I like to layer them for more visual appeal. This bulletin board is a free download which feature the old national music standards. Poker chips hold spray paint well. I've spray painted them gold to use for the gold at the end of a St. Patrick's Day rainbow before and was pleased with the result. Boxes I did a movie theme in my room once upon a time. It was so fun to find new ways to use popcorn boxes and bags. They are inexpensive to purchase (I got mine on Amazon.) and could be reused. Popcorn boxes would be great for movie themed bulletin boards, popcorn words, etc... I have plans to do something similar with small Chinese takeout boxes with my Instruments of China board. Cards It seems that it is completely impossible to keep a full deck of cards at my house. Any kind of cards! That's okay, because they look GREAT as borders for bulletin boards. Uno, Phase 10 and regular playing cards work great for math bulletin boards, rhythm or time signature bulletin boards or maybe even a great trim for a bulletin board that showcases your daily schedule. This set is from a Go Fish set of cards I picked up at the dollar store. Love that they work so well with an ocean or beach theme. Kids love to stop and look for matches even when they are displayed on a bulletin board. Cupcake Papers This is one of my go to looks for making a display really pop. There are so many varieties of cupcake papers available that you can find any color and any theme that you may need. Flatten them out and staple them to your board. I've found that buying complimentary patterns and layering them can really be beautiful. When working with my rock star theme I wanted something metallic that would be a little flashy. It turns out that there is a cupcake paper for that! These little baking cups are so cute at the corners of my rock star alphabet display. I added some glittery foam stickers to embellish them a little. (Classroom teachers see the rock star theme HERE. Music teachers see it HERE.) Duct Tape It doesn't get any easier than this! Look at what a great job duct tape does to cover this older bulletin board. Check out your local discount store for tons of duct tape options. The bulletin board above is from my Number Posters - Rock Star Theme. This is another example of the versatility of duct tape. This is a light blue glittery duct tape. It is displayed on my Soar Into Music board. Legos This is SUCH an eye-catching display! The bulletin board is Minecraft inspired and the Legos (or are these Duplos?) go with the building theme. I used Scotch tape to attach them to my board. For some of the pieces I just laid them on top of one piece and then taped the next block on it so that not every block is taped. This may work better on a board that students can't easily touch. (Classroom teachers take a closer look at the board HERE. Music teachers HERE.) Pool Noodles Those of you that have been following my blog for a while know that I have a great love for re-purposing pool noodles. I've made ponies, steady beat swords and even workstations. I also just cut them up to make great bulletin board borders! For this fishy bulletin board I wanted them to imitate bubbles. I've attached them with glue dots. You could also use a low-temp hot glue gun to attach them. This bulletin board is called Making Music Together. Notepads They aren't just for note taking! I often use these little gems to add content to bulletin boards. They also make a great (and inexpensive) border. The iPod pad shown above came from Wal-Mart and the composer bulletin board can be found HERE. Paint Chips Paint chips are free and are a perfect way to add visual interest to any bulletin board. On the border above I chose to use two different kinds of paint chips and to create a pattern with them. Paint chips look just as great mixed up and stapled in any order. Staple them so they hang over the edge of the board and overlap. You can learn more about the Let's Talk bulletin board HERE. Plates Even more than I love pool noodles in the classroom, I love plates! When I packed up my room this year I marveled at my collection. I have Zoo Pals (photo above), baseball plates, basketball plates, beach ball plates, watermelon plates, heart plates, square plates, Santa plates and more. I also have colored plates in 3 different sizes and every color you can imagine. I use them for movement and composition activities, but LOVE using them on bulletin boards. I pick them up at discount stores, dollar stores and party supply places. Here are a few examples. The What's Cooking in Music board can be downloaded HERE. The watermelon plates are so fun! This year I found them in a larger, oval size. This bulletin board is part of my Music Burger writing display. Puzzle Pieces Shhh! Don't tell my daughter but sometimes I swipe her old puzzles for school projects! In this instance, it was a jumbo Barney puzzle that had several missing pieces. For the display below I just attached them to the board with glue dots. You might be able to use Scotch tape too. I have painted them before to match a bulletin board. Tissue Paper Like many teachers I have created flowers and pom poms to decorate bulletin boards. They have a huge visual punch and are relatively inexpensive to make. It's very easy to just scrunch it up together and staple it around your board. Creating enough tissue paper flowers to use around the edge of a bulletin board is also pretty, but time consuming. Braiding long strips of tissue papers creates an interesting look and lets you coordinate your border with whatever colors you may need. Song Bugs Bulletin Board Odds and Ends Really, I'll put anything on a bulletin board. I've used socks, fishing poles, candy, lights, my son's overalls and more. For this movie themed bulletin board I used a few View Master reels to accent the corners. Wrapping Paper In my bulletin board kits I often talk about using wrapping paper as a background for your bulletin boards. It can be found in many themes and patterns and often stays bright and colorful without fading for several months. Reversible wrapping paper can also be used to create borders. As you are stapling the paper in place, leave about two inches overlap on each side. Fold this down to reveal the back side of the paper and staple into place. What unusual things have you put on your bulletin boards? I'd love to hear about them or see a picture!
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Inside: A collection of Hispanic Heritage Month activities and ideas for schools or to celebrate at home. National Hispanic Heritage Month occurs every year in the United States, from September 15th to October 15th. It's a month to celebrate the achievements of famous Hispanic Americans, along with everyday people. HHM is also the perfect chance
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Since I typically leave my three bulletin boards up for the entire year, I decided to use PowerPoint to create my letters. See the steps below and
I know you’ve seen them on your social media feeds. And I know you are thinking, these are adorable but I don’t have a cricut® and I am not going to buy a cricut® and so I will never be able to make these beautiful bulletin board letters. And then you hang your head and […]
October is National Disability Awareness Month, but it's so much more than awareness... it's about acceptance and seeing people for who they are. This bulletin board display will help students, staff, and everyone who walks the halls of your school think about each child first and not the "label" of disability or difference. Caity and I feel very strongly that the message behind this bulletin board is so important, not just for students with Autism, but for all students with disabilities. Display this bulletin board all year long! What is included? Everything you need to make this bulletin board display is included in the free download. There are 50 total puzzle pieces. Two kids have 10 pieces each. Two kids have 15 pieces each. Print on white paper and have students decorate a puzzle piece, giving your students ownership over this powerful message. Thisblog post has tips and tricks for decorating and displaying this bulletin board. Connect with Caity: • TpT Store • Facebook • Instagram • Connect with me: • Newsletter • Blog • Facebook • Instagram • Pinterest • Don't forget about the green ★ to follow my store to get notifications of new resources and freebies! Thanks for Looking and Happy Teaching!
I have so many things to blog about and ideas to share that I am just now getting around to our toddler class’ shape for December, which was predictably the star. (My new full-time job is a little bit of a distraction too… in a good way!) Anyway, as with our other shapes of the month, it is all about fun and learning through play. Here are 4 things we did with stars in addition to all our other Christmas activities. 1. Painting with Star Cookie Cutters: Anything with paint is bound to be a lot of fun for toddlers, as this was. This can, of course, be adapted for any shape, season, or subject, as long as you have the cookie cutter. We had 2 different sized and colored star cookie cutters, so we definitely incorporated some vocabulary (big vs. small) and color learning too. The colors of the cookie cutters matched the colors of the paint, which made it even more fun to mix them together on our papers. No, not every star was recognizable on our papers, but it was definitely a fun activity that the kids really got into! Some of them wanted their hands cleaned after they had done a few stars, and other children could have sat there for hours and kept playing in the paint. These beautiful collages ended up going in our portfolios as our “shape of the month” page. 2. Star Stickers: This took practically no time at all, which was perfect for toddler attention spans. This was an activity for our alphabet book (coming soon!), which I try to make pretty simple. I had die cut several stars on construction paper, so the children got to glue those down on their papers. Then they got to play with star stickers. It’s always interesting to see the reactions of children just being introduced to stickers. There are those who tear them, stick them to everything, and pick them off the paper as soon as they’re stuck down. Most of them I had to help, but they were all very interested, and some of them even worked at getting the stickers off the sticker sheet. (Yay for fine motor skills!) 3. Water Play with a Star: I can’t really take credit for this activity – we randomly found this star on our playground one day, and we just ran with it! December was actually a pretty warm month for us (as evidenced by the short sleeves), so we played with water outside. (This would be so fun for snow too though!) It seems like it’s a sandbox mold? Anyway, we had been practicing pouring water for several months, so the learning continued as we talked about this smiling star and sang “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” The kids loved when I poured water onto the star from high above. This also came in handy when we played with dirt and mulch! 4. Magic Scratch Stars: Just like our magic scratch hearts we did at Valentines Day, I had these stars that the toddlers were delighted to color. I got these from Oriental Trading Co, but I think this kind of paper is available at craft stores for you to cut into whatever shape you want. This is not just fine motor practice; it is definitely writing skills being developed! Just look at the finger grip here! In addition to reading books about shapes (including stars) and dropping star shapes into shape-sorter holes, which I’ve not pictured in this blog post, there are a few other ideas I would love to incorporate into future star studies for toddlers, as time allows: make stars with play dough (using cookie cutters again) look at and touch starfish put students’ pictures inside star shapes for display have a “star parade” with students carrying stars and/or their star-shaped pictures on popsicle sticks What are some star activities your toddler loves to do?
{my favorite "finds" from this week} Pete + Doodle Bugs = LOVE... adorable st. patrick charts... organize cards received throughout the year... awesome addition games... good writers write about their feelings... it was my "lucky day" when I found this... cute math mats...
from our friends at James River High School, Richmond, Va. I’ve been meeting with some kids from the Leadership Center at James River High. I was introduced to them by their Ethics teacher Mr…
You can practice a variety of skills which include practicing fulfilling orders, money math, sorting categories, and much more!
