Bulletin boards promote a positive and inviting atmosphere in school hallways and classrooms. They’re also beneficial for displaying our students’ work, enhancing communication efforts, and providing inspiration! However, they often require some time and effort to bring to life. With this in mind, we’ve sourced 49 stellar ideas that will help save you time and provide inspiration for your next bulletin board creation. Get reading to learn more.
1. What Brings You Joy
This interactive bulletin board is terrific for the beginning of the school year or just before Christmas. Cut out large letters to spell the word “joy” and have your students interact with the board by writing about things that most evoke this feeling for them.
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2. Take What You Need
Use this bulletin board in your classroom or school hallway to invite your students to take what they need. Whether it be a moment of peace, a love-filled message, or anything in between, each of these envelopes can be filled with encouraging quotes that represent the word listed on the outside.
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3. What is Kindness
This interactive classroom board will encourage your kiddos to consider what kindness means to them. Simply invite your students to write their thoughts on a colorful cardstock heart and pin it to your kindness bulletin board!
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4. Get Ready for a Colorful Year
Inspire your students on the very first day of school with this brightly colored and welcoming bulletin board. All you’ll need to bring it to life are a few shades of cardstock, tissue paper, glue, and, some creative flair.
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5. Home for the Holidays
What a great beautiful display of student work! Get your little ones to help you create this larger-than-life display by decorating a paper house with some festive flair before pegging their work of art onto the wall.
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6. Look Who Got Caught Reading
Looking for a unique way to encourage your kiddos to read more? Try out this nifty idea! Use a Polaroid camera or choose to print the pictures to hang onto your Look Who Got Caught Reading display.
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7. Best Work Ever
This brightly colored bulletin board makes a terrific base for student displays. Simply use brightly colored cardstock squares and numbered pegs to create a backdrop on which you can interchange pieces of work as and when you please.
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8. We Were Born to Sparkle
This is another terrific backdrop for your hallway because it’ll allow visitors to see just what your students have been achieving in the classroom. Peg up stand-out student work to applaud the remarkable efforts exerted by your kiddos.
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9. We’ve Got Vision
This is an awesome New Year activity that will help your kiddos get clear on what they want to achieve in the year that lies ahead. Task them with writing and illustrating their goals and resolutions for the new year on a pair of oversized sunglasses, and then painting a face to attach underneath.
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10. Silhouette Autobiographies
Another great idea for the start of the year is these autobiography silhouettes! Help your kiddos get to know one another by writing a short piece about themselves and attaching their finished works to your bulletin board for other learners to read.
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11. Wonderful Women
This educational display is a terrific way to honor famous women in history. Portraying women as superheroes will also offer some much-needed inspiration to your students who may be feeling slightly discouraged or left behind.
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12. Fancy Tissue Bulletin Board Border
Get in touch with your crafty side by creating a fancy bulletin backdrop! This adorable border is made with tissue paper and gift wrapping which are both inexpensive and easy materials to work with!
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13. Burlap Border and Giraffe Material
Using burlap to create an eye-catching border is a terrific idea for beautifying your bulletin board. Simply pick a unique piece of fabric or two and use them to bring a wildly-fantastic display to life.
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14. Welcome
Talk about a warm welcome! This display will certainly remind all who enter your school of just how special they are. Draw inspiration from this board or think up a witty acrostic to make this idea your own.
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15. Amazing Things Happen Here
Fill your bulletin board space with this easy and colorful idea. Use a circle to display every one of your learners’ names and finish things off with a quote that reads, “Amazing things happen here”!
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16. Give it Your Best Shot
This bulletin board will surely capture everyone’s attention- especially the sports fans in your class! Motivate your learners to try their best by crafting a basketball-themed display that reads, “Give it your best shot”!
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17. Meet the Person Responsible
What a wonderful way to encourage individual responsibility! Remind your learners that they’re responsible for their own choices, grades, success, words, and actions by crafting a display using plastic mirrors and bold words.
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18. Warm Up With a Good Book
Another great display for encouraging more reading is this one! Invite your students to leave their book recommendations on a colorful mug filled with hot cocoa and marshmallows before pinning them to the board.
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19. Happy Birthday
“Fishing You a Happy Birthday” makes a fabulous bulletin board display and will ensure that you never miss those special dates. This board is easy and inexpensive to make, and your students will love having their birthdays displayed for others to see. All you’ll need to bring it to life is colorful cardstock, tissue paper, googly eyes, glue, a wooden dowel, string, and glue!
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20. Your Life is a Canvas
What a unique bulletin board idea! Take a trip to the local hardware or paint store and collect some of their old paint samples. Then, find a blank spot in the hallway and rope your kiddos into a craft session by tasking them with arranging the samples around an all-important message that reads, “Your life is a canvas… paint it colorful”!
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21. Swim Together
Promote anti-bullying in your school by reminding your learners that they’re all a part of a larger school of fish. A positive statement like the one on this bulletin will remind each and every one of them of the importance of working together and celebrating their unique attributes.
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22. I Am
Here’s another great idea for celebrating your students’ unique values. Give each of them a colored strip of paper and allow them to define themselves in one word. Once complete, they can then add it to a wall to create a bright display around the words, “I am”.
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23. Change Your Mindset
This display is a great idea for teaching your students how to change their approach to beliefs that spring from a negative mindset. Simply write positive approaches on pieces of colorful cardstock to overshadow the negative approaches written on white cardstock behind them.
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24. Emotion Control
One way to teach your students how to control their emotions is by providing them with the necessary tools to do so. This intriguing bulletin board offers suggestions for dealing with joy, disgust, sadness, fear, and anger; a display that will help them learn how to navigate the full spectrum of baseline emotions.
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25. Meet the Crew
A lighthouse with boats steering toward it makes this a terrific bulletin board for sailing-themed classrooms. Place your students’ names on a boat before using them to fill the harbor and remind your kiddos of their place in the greater ocean of the school.
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26. Spotlight
This educational display is a wonderful way to spotlight a particular person or topic that you may be focusing on at any given time class is focusing on at the time. Use it to spotlight important people and their contributions to society.
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27. Mental Health Check-In
Provide your students with a safe place to express their feelings with this unique bulletin board idea. Each day, encourage your kiddos to grab a sticky note, write their name on the back of it, and place it beside the statement that best matches how they are feeling. Be sure to check in with learners who note that they’re a little on the blue end of the feelings spectrum.
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28. Class Info
Creating a bulletin board solely for the purpose of communicating important work or activity-related information is a terrific idea. Make it eye-catching by decorating the backdrop as a box of crayons. Be sure to include a calendar of events, a lunch menu, important homework activities, seating assignments, your class newsletter, and anything else that comes to mind.
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29. Hungry for a Good Book
This cute caterpillar bulletin board can be created with ease. It is an adorable addition to any elementary classroom or library and is sure to get your kiddos inspired to read. Rope them into the creation process by having them make a large hungry caterpillar to pin front and center!
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30. Think Before You…
One way to utilize a bulletin board in the classroom is to use it to promote kind actions. This bulletin board sends a powerful message by encouraging your students to consider others before doing or saying something that might hurt them; especially on the digital front.
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31. Oh, the Places You’ll Go
This is a terrific bulletin board idea for high school hallways. It serves as a reminder of the activities, goals, and actions that should be accomplished during ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades leading to the end goal of graduation.
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32. Who’s Who
This is a fantastic bulletin board for middle schoolers. Students must respond to three questions about themselves on sticky notes. Then, the answers are mixed up, and the other students must place the answers in the correct boxes. This is a terrific activity for students to see how much they truly know one another.
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33. What’s Your Personal Goal
Teach your students how to set smart goals so that they have something to work toward. To help ring the message home, rope them into a hands-on craft session. Simply have them trace their forearm and hand before decorating it as they please and writing one personal goal that they’d like to achieve over the next year. Then, use their artwork to bring an inspirational bulletin display to life!
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34. Adventure Awaits
Take your students on a trip around the world with this travel-themed bulletin board. It’s perfect for encouraging your students to explore the world around them. You can decorate it with a map, mark landmarks from around the world, or even make space for your kiddos to display places they have been to or would like to visit.
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35. Celebrate Diversity
Promote diversity and inclusivity in the classroom with this bright display. This board will encourage your students to share their unique cultural traditions or heritage with their classmates. Set aside time to get them to share what they’ve added to the display to encourage understanding and respect among classmates.
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36. Math Marvels
This mathematics bulletin board can serve many purposes in the classroom. Use it to celebrate student achievement and progress made toward achieving goals, or even use it as an interactive teaching tool. You could highlight a problem of the day or feature math riddles and brain teasers to keep your students engaged and thinking.
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37. Dream Clouds
This bulletin board culminates in a glorious display of your students’ hopes, dreams, and wishes. To build this board, have your learners create their own dream clouds and write their future aspirations and dreams on them.
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38. Science in Action
The perfect bulletin board for a science-only classroom, this Science in Action board is a perfect way to display learning. Use this board to document and display the progress of ongoing science experiments in your classroom by getting your learners to pin on their observations, hypotheses, and outcomes.
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39. Food for Thought
Inspire your readers to consume as many books as possible when you turn your bulletin board into a menu of books. Using simple items such as paper plates and napkins. write down the names of books or authors that your students should “order” from the classroom library. This is definitely a way to inspire your students to satisfy their hunger for new reading materials.
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40. Puzzling Pieces
Everyone loves a good puzzle! With this fun bulletin board, you have a space to display challenging puzzles or riddles that students can solve. Change them up weekly or monthly, and keep increasing the difficulty to keep student engagement high.
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41. Eco-Friendly Corner
This board provides an amazing way of highlighting the importance of environmental protection and sustainability. Use it as a space to feature tips on reducing waste, conserving energy, and recycling. It can even be used as a place to celebrate or highlight student-led, eco-friendly initiatives.
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42. Interactive Calendar
Every classroom needs a calendar! Create an oversized calendar on the bulletin board where your students can add important dates such as those of events, due dates for projects, and birthdays. You can even use a calendar for daily math lessons, counting practice, and skill review scheduling.
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43. History Hall of Fame
Dedicate a board to showcasing significant historical events and figures. Simply add new figures or events as they’re taught; providing your students with a daily review of what they’ve learned. This ever-changing board is a great way to show learning progression and get your pupils to review concepts long after they’ve been taught.
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44. Art Gallery
This bulletin board is the perfect place to show off the masterpieces created by your budding Picassos. An art gallery bulletin board is a collaborative display where your students can display their creative masterpieces. This will create a vibrant, ever-changing display of student work and help to brighten up your classroom that much more!
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45. Health and Wellness Tips
Use your bulletin board as a place to promote and encourage physical and mental well-being. Use it to share healthy recipes, fun exercise routines, and mindfulness techniques. Go above and beyond by adding a few motivational quotes to inspire a healthy lifestyle among students.
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46. Around the World in Books
Invite your kiddos to travel the world and discover some amazing authors in the process. For this display, print book covers written by authors from different countries to promote diversity in literature. Pair each book with a brief summary and its country of origin- giving your students a starting point when they’re at a loss for what books to select from the library.
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47. Star Student
A Star Student bulletin board makes for a fun display that’s sure to make your students smile. Highlight a different student each week or month to celebrate their special talents, interests, or accomplishments. Celebratory displays like these will boost self-esteem and encourage both peer recognition and appreciation.
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48. Acts of Kindness
Start the school year with an inspirational kindness-tracking bulletin board. Track and celebrate the many acts of kindness you see in the classroom. This will help you encourage a positive and caring classroom culture. You could also connect this board to your classroom management plan by offering a reward once a certain number of acts are completed.
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49. Music Corner
Inspire the young musicians in your class by dedicating a bulletin board to music. Display lyrics from inspirational songs and profiles of various musicians or composers, or even add musical notes for your students to learn. What a great way to blend music, poetry, and literacy!
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