There’s no better time of year to update your hallway decor than with a seasonal shift! This autumn, as the temperatures outside start to drop, why not warm up your indoor walls with some fun, silly, and inspiring new bulletin boards? Have a look-see at our carefully curated list of 49 bulletin board ideas and we bet you’ll find one that you can’t resist trying!
1. Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Fence
How many little pumpkins are in your class this year? Each of them can paint a paper pumpkin with this welcome back from the Fall break bulletin! Encourage creative expression by supplying them with different paints and sponges to make their eye-catching pumpkins!
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2. Falling Into Good Study Habits
The leaves on this board almost look real! Task your students with writing some helpful study habits on a few paper leaves and you’ll quickly have a striking, informative board!
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3. Pumpkin Writing
Your little ones will get a hoot out of designing these silly pumpkins! Once they’ve created their unique faces, get your kiddos to assign names to them and write a few sentences to describe them. It’s a perfect writing prompt to enforce a lesson related to adjectives or character traits. Surely, parents, teachers, and students alike will pause to read about your goofy pumpkin patch on their way in and out of your classroom!
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4. Leaf Through a Good Book
If you’re a librarian or Language Arts teacher, this is a simple board to add some seasonal flair to your classroom! Ask your pupils to help cut out paper leaves, or buy a bag of fake leaves to spell out the word ‘leaf’. It’s a terrific way of promoting reading and you could even add some book covers to the tree!
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5. Welcome to Our Patch
This fall-themed board is an adorable addition to the outside of your classroom. Write your students’ names on paper pumpkins or fall-colored leaves to make sure your kiddies feel warmly welcomed upon arrival at school each day.
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6. Happy Fallidays
Handprints give a touch of uniqueness to your “Happy Fallidays” board! To make this simple board, let your students paint their hands and print them onto white paper. Then, they can add some veins to make them look like autumn leaves before adding them to the collective tree display!
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7. Cream of the Crop
We know that your students will love seeing their school pictures on classroom bulletin boards, and their parents will too! To piece together this autumn board, have your learners cut out ears of corn and draw kernels on them. Then, they can glue their school photos to the cobs and stick them around a board that says, “Cream of the Crop”.
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8. Happy Fall Y’all
Cutesy, personalized scarecrows for the win! This adorable classroom display can easily be brought to life with a fun day of arts and crafts. They’ll need a paper plate, some brown gift bag stuffing, construction paper, and of course glue, and scissors. Show them a finished scarecrow before prompting them to come up with their own examples to add to this fall-themed bulletin.
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9. Thankful Hands
In a crunch for time? Here’s an easy-to-complete bulletin for Fall! Celebrate the autumnal season with this festive turkey. Each of the turkey’s colorful feathers can contain a bunch of your students’ painted handprints on them. Sweet and simple does the trick!
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10. The Greatest Oaks
We love the inspirational saying on this one- The greatest oaks were once little acorns. To make this bulletin come to life, bunch together some brightly-colored tissue paper to make lots of autumn leaves and create a 3D tree! Your kiddos can then help cut out paper acorns to spread around the bottom of the display- and voilà- the autumn board is complete!
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11. Reading Leaves You Happy
This joyful tree will undoubtedly make your kids smile each time they pass by it, and it’s a great way of encouraging more reading! We want our kids to know that- Reading leaves you happy! The tree itself can easily be made by folding and rolling up brown butcher paper. Finish it off with a big smiley face and a large book for the tree to hold, and you’ll have the cutest bulletin in the school!
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12. We’ve Got Lots to Crow About
If you want to go all out with your autumn bulletin board- this is the perfect idea for you! This colorful bulletin board scene is made with a real yard decoration scarecrow. What a great idea! Add growing corn stalks, a fence, and some trees to complete the effect!
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13. Sunflower Season
We love this sunflower bulletin for a quirky addition to any art classroom! There’s so much you can do with paper and tissue paper- and these giant flowers are the cream of the crop!
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14. Frankly, I Love Books
Who loves books more- Frankenstien, or your students? This Halloween-themed bulletin board is quite easy to make, and the kids will love how cute it is! You could even change the word ‘books’ to reading, math, social studies, history, or any other subject!
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15. Peanuts Display
This Peanuts-themed bulletin board is a classic Fall reference! After all, who doesn’t love Snoopy? Ask your budding artists to help draw the characters, and then add a pile of leaves and pumpkins to the patch.
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16. Get Caught in a Good Book
This bulletin board design is so much fun… unless you’re afraid of spiders! Using black bulletin borders to make 8 legs and a head, your larger-than-life-sized spider will soon be ready to catch some books on its web! Include some of your students’ favorite book titles when creating this super unique bulletin.
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17. Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Teach character education with this awesome bulletin board idea! Allow your students to describe what being nice means on these cute, cutout coffee cups. They can learn how their classmates want to be treated for the rest of the school year!
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18. Can You Guess Who
This idea is spooktacular! This fun and engaging bulletin board design includes ghosts that contain pictures of your students’ eyes in place of the ghosts’ eyes. You’ll need a large photo of each student and the ghost template to put on top of the photo. Carefully staple the ghost just above the photo so it can be flipped open; your kiddos can then guess whom each ghost belongs to!
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19. Hooray for Fall
Hoot, Hoot, Hooray for Fall! Bring this autumn-inspired board to life by showcasing these cute student-created owls. The bulletin functions as an adorable and eye-catching display of your students’ art with scrap paper attached as feathers.
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20. Wrapped Up in Learning
Your kids will be surprised when they show up to school and they’re greeted by a mummy! This cool mummy bulletin board is easy and inexpensive to make and is perfect for October. You can use white streamers to create the mummy wrap, a smiling face to add some personality, and fake spider webs to make it as close to the real deal as possible!
21. Say Boo to the Flu
With autumn comes the dreaded flu season! Therefore, right outside the nurse’s office would be the perfect location for this advice-giving bulletin board. It’s a great way to teach your students how to prevent the flu with suggestions like thoroughly washing your hands and coughing into your arms. Talk about a display that’s both informative and cute!
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22. Hocus Pocus
This cutesy creation plays on the movie Hocus Pocus- a Fall favorite! You or your students can add some study tips to the black paper bats to encourage better focus and longer-term retention.
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23. Shake Your Tail Feathers
This board will definitely grab your kids’ attention! Have them start with the turkey craft and pair it with a writing prompt about gratitude. What truly makes this precious board one of a kind is the inclusion of painted turkeys made by your students using paper plates and brightly-colored feathers. The unique border of scrunched-up paper is also a special touch!
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24. The S’More You Read, the S’more You Know
Ring home the importance of reading with this sweet bulletin board idea- The s’more you read, the s’more you know. Stack paper and tissue paper to create giant s’mores to go with the saying. This would look great positioned above your classroom library, and you could even create a s’more incentive if your learners accomplish their reading goals!
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25. Math-o-ween
This colorful, catchy bulletin board idea is great for an October fall day! First, your kiddies will need to gather images of their favorite candy treats and recreate them using math vocabulary from the unit at hand. When you take it all down, make life easy for next year by laminating a few prize examples to give next year’s class some sweet inspiration!
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26. Whooo’s Ready for Fall?
This “Whooos ready for fall” bulletin is a cute addition to any hallway decor. If you’ve got little kiddos who are still practicing their scissor skills you can even have them help you out on the picket fence. Enlarge a whole class photo and add it to the blank space behind the scarecrow to make the pupils in your class really feel as if they’re part of a little community.
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27. Rake In Some Good Reads
Inspire a cozy weekend reading inside while Mom and Dad are out raking the yard! Survey your kids for their favorite books and display eye-catching cover art for your little readers to find a few new picks! After all, what’s better than books vetted by their classmates?
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28. Gratitude Tree
Promote some warmth and gratitude this holiday season with this amazing thankful tree. To create it, simply bunch and twist some newspaper or brown butcher paper and staple it up to create a textured tree. Then, put out a basket of blank, paper leaves and markers, and give your kiddies some quiet contemplation time to write down what they’re extra grateful for. They’ll adore expressing thanks and leaving their tidbits of gratitude up for all to see!
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29. Frizzle Science
As Ms. Frizzle always says, “If you keep asking questions, you’ll keep getting answers”. Invite your kids to put together a super cool Magic School Bus-inspired bulletin board by having them select quotes just like this one to fill up the display. You could even laminate a Ms. Frizzle cutout and adapt her for other seasons!
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30. Pumpkin Patch of Poetry
Foster your kiddo’s collaboration skills by having them write a fall-themed poem together! It’s not only a great mini-lesson on adjectives and rhyme, but will lead to a final product that they’ll surely be proud of! Your early finishers can pencil in the words and then help assemble 3D pumpkins in their downtime using orange strips of paper.
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31. Seasonal STEM
Graph seasonal temperatures month by month with this super fun STEM-themed bulletin board! Put a thermometer outside your classroom window and watch as the chilly months set in. Brrr… then have your students take turns filling in the graph with fall colors! For extra credit, they can make comparisons of climate trends over time and even research temperature trends in different regions.
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32. Sweater Weather Writing
Have your kiddos “spin a yarn” with this sweater-worthy bulletin board. On a sweater cut-out, they can write a real or made-up story about a time that they had to stay inside, comfy in their favorite sweater. When their final copies are all polished up, pin them to the board for all to see.
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33. Autumn’s Festival of Colors
Have your littlest kiddies brighten up your hallway walls with an autumn forest! First, take them on a walk outside and ask questions like, “How many different shades of yellow can you see?” Afterward, you can create a large poster to help your preschoolers identify the colors they saw on their walk; simply have ‘em use colored paper to make textured monochromatic trees and add matching leaves on precut brown templates.
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34. Nuts About Fall
Who else is nuts about fall? Let your students begin crafting this collaborative display by crumpling tissue paper and adding it to the tail of a squirrel cutout. Next, they’ll receive an acorn cutout on which they can write a Fall-related sentence. Whether it’s a statement, question, or exclamation, there’s no doubt that they’ll build their writing skills with this nutty bulletin!
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35. Crack The Riddles
Here’s an interactive bulletin board that will undoubtedly catch the eye of bypassers! These show-and-tell acorns can be used to add some critical thinking to your autumn fun fest by having your kiddos create riddles for their classmates to solve. Remind your kiddos that to craft a riddle, they’ll need to start with the answer, not the question. To see if they’ve guessed correctly, they can flip open the top part of the acorn to reveal the answer!
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36. Turkey Tie
Give some drab, out-of-style ties new life with this delightful turkey tie bulletin board! Use felt and hot glue on some velcro, and you won’t even need to sew anything for this charmer. The best thing is that it can be used year after year to welcome your little turkeys to class every Autumn morning.
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37. Welcome to Our Flock
This silly bulletin board is ridiculously cute- and all eyes will be on your hallway decor this Fall! After a quick demo, have your kiddos cut out differently shaped turkeys before adding eyes and beaks that they’ve cut themselves. No need for a template for this, because the variations make it all the more beautiful. Finally, use clothes pegs to hang your “Welcome to our flock” banner at the top of the board, and you’ll be all set with a unique display!
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38. Gobble Up Gratitude
After a whole class chat about what it means to be thankful, have your kiddos fill out a turkey feather template starting with the prompt, “I am grateful for ______.” This idea is sure to bring about warmth and positivity in your classroom and make for a great post-circle-time activity.
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39. Autumn Adventures in Science
Double, double, toil, and trouble! Showcase your upcoming science unit topics with this fun and bubbly bulletin board. Use the cauldrons for topics and bubbles for subtopics or vocabulary. You can use twisted brown bags for the logs and tissue paper for the fire.
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40. Turkey Day Tummies
Here’s a great Fall bulletin board idea if your nutrition unit happens to align with Thanksgiving! Make people out of simple shapes and task your kiddies with adding paper plate bellies, hair, and faces. To do so, they’ll need to cut and paste their dinner faves on paper plates- including all of the food groups of course. Finally, they’ll trace, cut, and paste some hands to place over their bellies to finish off this wholesome display!
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41. Squirreling Away New Words
We love a good academic-related bulletin! Pick an artist in your class to draw a lively squirrel and then ask your kiddos to add academic words to paper cutout leaves and acorns! You can use this for any grade level by using your weekly vocabulary words or spelling words. And for the littles, it makes a great word wall for your Dolch list sight words! We bet they’ll go nuts for it.
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42. Class Expectations Harvest
Put this display up anytime your kiddos get squirrely and need a refresher on the classroom agreements. Or, think vertically, and make it into a classroom door decoration so that they get regular reminders as they come and go. We could even see it pasted on the door of the building’s main entrance to show off your school-wide values!
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43. Having a Ball This Fall
Roll call for all the sports fans out there! No gym corridor would be complete without this adorable addition. Think of all the possible turkey bodies: golf balls, baseballs, footballs- the options are endless! You can even add some team photos of your athletes to celebrate team spirit!
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44. Fall into Fitness
Fitness doesn’t need to be confined to the gym or sports field- take it into your community! Encourage a healthy lifestyle with this fun, outdoorsy display. Celebrate all the hikers, bikers, and paddlers in your school by suggesting some nearby outdoor activities. You may just bump into one of your students’ families next time you’re on the trail!
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45. Color’fall’ November
Your very littlest learners will enjoy engaging in these fun messy projects to decorate your walls with a fall theme! They can’t yet hold a crayon? No worries at all! Just help your kiddies finger-paint paper plates and add their pink footprint cut out to make a turkey. Another option is cutting out autumn-colored tissue paper to glue onto their plates- both are sure to delight!
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46. 30 Days of Thankfulness
Who says it needs to be December to incorporate an advent calendar into the month? This one isn’t gift-centric but is sure to bring about thanks nonetheless. To do so, have each of your kiddos fill out one of the 30 squares with a description of the things that they truly appreciate. At the start of each school day, they can flip one over!
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47. Candy Corn Number Forms
Candy corn is kinda’ polarizing as people either love it or hate it. This fun math activity will make an amazing Halloween bulletin board that may just change minds and hearts about the sweet treat! The best thing is that it can be easily differentiated to suit any level. Have them build and expand numbers with 2, 3, or 4 digits- showing the standard, base 10 form, and expanded form. After the work is done, a candy corn taste test is definitely in order!
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48. Go Batty for Books
Who’s batty about books? From Stellaluna to the Secret Lives of Bats, your learners will most definitely find a book on the provided list that’ll pique their interest! What a super time of year to encourage them to get acquainted with this upside-down-sleeping, echo-locating, little mammals that aren’t so scary after all.
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49. Seasonal Spanish Spotlight
¿Hablas español? Showcase some fun fall vocab for all of your multilingual kiddos- no need for Duolingo this holiday season! Use these little turkeys to teach your students words like foliage, crisp, apples, and gratitude. We suggest that they write the Spanish words on one side of the feather, and their English translations on the other! They’re sure to learn a new word or two from these creative turkeys!
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