How to Make a Fabric Covered Bulletin Board for a Kid's Room

Add some life to a plain bulletin board with colorful fabric.

Bulletin boards, as useful as they are, may be quite bland when they come straight from the store. The ones that come with a more decorative look often cost quite a bit more than plain cork ones, leaving the plain cork bulletin boards as the most practical choice. Decorate your own bulletin board to hang in your child's room to both decorate the room and serve as a functional way to hang pictures or homework.

Things You'll Need

• Unframed bulletin board
• Scissors
• Clothes iron
• Spray adhesive
• Standard office stapler
• Fabric pen

Instructions

1. Iron a piece of fabric larger than the bulletin board with a clothes iron. Use a heat setting safe for the fabric you are using.

2. Lay the fabric wrong-side up on a flat surface.

3. Spray an even layer of adhesive spray over the face of an unframed bulletin board.

4. Place the bulletin board face-side down in the center of the piece of fabric.

5. Pull the corners of the fabric inward and staple them in place at the back of the bulletin board with a standard office stapler. Staple guns use staples that may be too long and poke through the front of the bulletin board.

6. Tightly pull the fours sides of the fabric onto the back of the bulletin board and staple them in place every 1/2 inch along the edge of the back of the bulletin board.