How to Decorate a Classroom for Back to School
The start of the school year is an exciting time for both students and teachers. Decorating a classroom bulletin is one way you can greet your students and welcome them to a fun year. You can also use this time to introduce yourself and each student and share fun facts so that classmates can learn about their new friends.
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Choose a theme for your bulletin board. Be creative and you'll be amazed at how many ideas you can come up with. For example, turn your bulletin board into a pond with your students as fish, or a tree with an apple to represent each student or a meadow with flowers using your students' pictures.
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Use a large sheet of colored paper to staple over the bulletin board. If you're going to make a pond or sky background, use a blue color. A meadow could have a green background.
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Take pictures of your students on the first day or when you meet them over the summer. Print the pictures and cut out the faces.
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Cut out fish or flower petals using different colors of construction paper.
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Glue a student's face where it belongs on the fish. If you have flowers, use the child's face as the center with the petals growing out from them.
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Write each student's name on the bodies of the fish or on the flower petals. If your students are old enough, have them write their name themselves.
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Staple the fish or flowers onto the bulletin board. The flowers could form a bouquet by using green construction paper as stems and using ribbon to form a bow.
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Write a catchy phrase that ties in the picture you created on the bulletin board. For example, a bouquet of flowers could be "A Special Bunch." If you create a pond of fish, you could write "Fishin' for a Great Class" and draw a picture of you with your own picture and a piece of string dangling from a fishing pole into the group of fish.
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