How to Decorate Bulletin Boards

Whether you're a teacher or you have a bulletin board in your home, you may be interested in how you can decorate it for holidays, seasons or on a daily basis. A bulletin board makes for interesting décor and can be a way to teach. It takes a little effort and may cost some money, but the results can be worth it.

Things You'll Need

• Construction paper
• Scissors
• Tacks
• Christmas ornaments
• Glitter
• Markers or crayons

Instructions

1. Put up blank staffs if you're a music teacher. Give each class a specific song and ask them to put up the corresponding musical notes. You can teach the students how to know the notes by sound, and the finished product can serve as decoration for your classroom.

2. Create paper potted flowers on the bulletin board in a classroom for spring. Cut out the pots from brown construction paper, the stems and leaves from green paper and flowers from basic white paper. Put the pots on the bulletin board and have one stem coming out of each one. Let each child color his own flower, take a picture of each child, then put each child's picture at the center of his respective flowers. Attach the leaves to the stems and one flower at the top of each stem. You can also have each child write her name up the length of the stem.

3. Create a bulletin board of the month at home where each child displays her accomplishments or pictures for that month. For example, if your child got an A+ on a hard test or took a picture wearing her Halloween costume, you can put it up on the bulletin board for that month. It can change every month and can even help with clutter because it can limit how many papers are out at a given time.

4. Have each child draw, color and cut out pictures of summer symbols for the upcoming summer months to put on the bulletin board in the classroom. For example, if there are 25 children in a class, each child can draw and color one item such as a beach ball, a bright sun or waves. It can be a tribute to summer and be a project that the kids can do for the end of the school year.

5. Have each child create his own Christmas ornaments around Christmastime to put up on the bulletin board in school. Buy inexpensive, bulk amounts of ornaments. Have each child decorate it to his style by using glitter, fabric or other items. Tack each ornament up to the classroom bulletin board and the day Christmas vacation starts, give it to him to take home to hang on the tree. If the child doesn't celebrate Christmas, he can decorate an ornament according to his own holiday.