...I still have my bulletin board up from the first day of school!! Does anyone have any cute ideas they are using now?
LOL Me too. It's really starting to look tired. Tomorrow I have to put up something for autumn, fall, leaves....to last through Thanksgiving maybe. Then on to Christmas, but that should be easy. I have 2 in the hallway to decorate. Ugh. One is just the kids' work and the other is seasonal. Just google "teacher bulletin boards" and you'll find hundreds of ideas. Good luck!
My hall board is children made. I put out the pieces to a scarecrow, the kind you attach the head, arms & legs with paper brads. Everyone chose a part to decorate using crayons, paints, sequins, beads, material scraps, etc. We did 2 scarecrows so everyone would have a part to decorate. Parts-hat, head (paper plate), arms, legs, shirt, pants, & a crow for each scarecrow. I put them together, they glued on 'straw'. Pumpkins were made by painting paper plates then decorating. Our jack-o-lanterns became lions, girls, boys, silly faces, etc. They were very creative & turned out cute! These were placed in the pumpkin patch on the bb with the scarecrows.
my bulletin board is going to feature a few of each of the fall art projects we will be doing. scarecrows, pumpkins etc
bulletin boards This year I repeated a cornfield bulletin board from a previous year. I have the children finger paint a corn cut with yellow dots. We glue on leaves. I twist green bulletin paper into cornstalks. Staple on the corn ears. Add rafia tassels to the top. I stand a large scarecrow next to the board. The caption reads "Look at Mrs. Kerns' Ears!" We put a tree on the door. The children colored leaves and I added the caption of "Falling For Jesus." The K-3 class made owls and a board that says "K-3 Gives a Hoot."
I'm really into glyphs. They're great because the kids have to follow a set of directions, and they all turn out a little different from eachtoher based on the interests of each child. There are books with different glyphs for holidays or seasons, but I made my own apple-glyphs. You hang them up on the BB with the Glyph Directions and other teachers and students have fun learning about each child based on how their glyph turned out.
It makes it easier on me if I tie in my bulletin board with my unit or holiday seasonal theme. Right now; it's decorated with "Fire Prevention" items made by the kids.
My reply probably isn't helpful, but I don't do "bulletin boards" in the crafty, theme-y, decorative sense of the words. I just display student work. I have a board where I display writing samples. And another where I hang math or science stuff that we've done. And I usually pick a few things to put up in the hall with a description of what we did.
i'm planning on making a fall bulletin board that is centered around our pumpkin and scarecrow themes. the title is something along the lines of, "peep into our pumpkin patch" .. there will be a fence and the students will make pumpkins with jack-a-lantern faces for our halloween stuff, we do a science lesson on pumpkin, so their observation sheets will be up there also. we also do a sequencing activity with The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything. They put the parts of a scarecrow together to retell the story, and those will go up there too. for the pumpkins they make, i give each a pumpkin pattern that i cut out of manilla paper. They will tear orange construction paper and glue it to the pattern. They will take green and tear it for the stem, and then black to make the face of the jack-a-lantern.
