Back To School Bulletin Board Ideas

Contact_FullName: Tami

Contact_Email: Tami_ralston@yahoo.com

Area: Back To School-Bulletin Board

Idea:

Each September we get a new group of kids coming into the classroom. We do a special bulletin board welcoming them into the classroom. This year I had a great idea. After taking each child's picture for their cubby, I used this picture to cut the child's face out in a circle. I then put the picture onto a music note. So it looked like a regular music note with the child's face as the round part of it. Then for the board itself, I put five black lines across white fadeless paper covering the whole board. I made records out of black and white construction paper and used these records for the border. I then put the music notes on the black lines so it looked like sheet music. The heading said "Look who's Rockin' into Homebase G (Thats the name of my class). It ended up looking great! I just had to share it.

Contact_FullName: Chris

Contact_Email: jcmarrs@tigerpaw.com

Area: bulletin boards

Idea:

The beginning of the year I made a Sponge Bob bulletin board. I used dark blue paper at the top and brown paper which I glued (with thinned out glue and a sponge type brush) sand to look like the bottom of the sea. In the middle I put a large picture of Sponge Bob with the saying "We Are Ready for Preschool!" Then I used clip art of various ocean animals and put the children's names on them. I also took green tissue paper and rolled it to look like seaweed and stapled it to the brown paper.

Too cute!

Contact_FullName: Kelly

Contact_Email: kinderkwalker@aol.com

Area: Back to School

Idea:

"We are going on a learning adventure" I used black background, add cut outs of vehicles (since I was a safari-themed classroom, I used Jeeps), writing the child's name on each one. Use chalk to draw a curvy road and add animal die-cuts or pictures along the sides of the road to go with your theme. E-mail me if you'd like a picture! :)

Contact_FullName: Jennifer

Contact_Email: jgrant04@hotmail.com

Area: back to school

Idea:

I use a checkerboard picnic cloth for the background and have the title "A new batch of students." I have my name on a chef's hat. and a large piece of foil for a cookie sheet. I put the student's names on the paper cookies, and have a bowl with cookie batter and a large spoon. This is cute and easy!

Contact_FullName: Kerri

Contact_Email: mknk11@aol.com

Area: Bulletin Boards

Idea:

I have a great bulletin board idea for the beginning of the school year. I have cut enough bright yellow stars to put every child's name on and hung them on the board on a deep blue background. Then I have blue sparkling letters in the center that read "Preschool's Bright and Shining Stars". Every child will feel special when they see their name in the stars!

For my helper bulletin board, I use a medium color paper as the background then using a small hand as a pattern I cut handprint shapes out of vinyl placemats (solid colored). I take a picture of each child the 1st day of school and glue each one on a hand and put Velcro on the back. Under each helper heading (flag holder, leader, etc.) I put the other side of the Velcro to hold the hands in place for the day. At the end of the year the children get their "helping hands" I find this works very good for 2 to 5's who may not recognize their own names or their classmates names!

For September, we take Polaroid pictures of the children and place them on red apples made from card stock paper. We entitle our board "I am the apple of God's eye". the children enjoy looking at their pictures during the first month of preschool.

I ask the parents of my K3 students to send a picture of the child's family to school during the first week. Each child picks his/her favorite color of construction paper and we cut out a pennant shape and tape on the picture. Then the children tell me their favorite things about each family member and I write it on the pennant. We put some "fringe" on the end of each with a contrasting color of paper and hang our pennants on the wall. Seeing their family's picture every day makes the children feel at home.

"Dive in to a Great Year!" Decorate your bulletin board as an underwater ocean scene. Then cover the entire board with green or blue saran wrap going across and stapling each row of plastic at a time. You may need a little help to hold it at one end. This gives off a dramatic effect to your bulletin board!

This year our theme was colors, so we made a bulletin board that had the phrase, "Launching A Great Year With Many Colorful Experiences" We then made children, who were holding ribbons with colorful balloons connected to them, and then we put the children's names on the balloons.

At our yearly open house I give each child a large cutout of a train car. I have written on it such things as:My favorite food is___________My favorite thing to do is ______________I'm scared of _______________ETC......I send this home at open house and the children are to decorate it, put a picture of of themselves, picture of mom and dad, etc.The first day of school they bring these back and I hang them around the room with my information on the engine and my assistants information at the caboose. It is very reassuring to the children when they can go to their train car and see a picture of mom and day anytime they want.

Before school starts, draw a LARGE shape such as an apple.  Cut up the shape into pieces like a puzzle.  Send each child a piece of the puzzle.  Include a note to the child asking them to decorate the puzzle piece anyway they want and bring it with them on the first day of school.  When all the puzzle pieces come in, reassemble the shape on your bulletin board.