Get classroom bulletin board ideas, printable decorations for classroom and hallway bulletin boards and full sets already designed to brighten up the classroom and wow students in the school hallways! From back-to-school bulletin boards to printable bulletin board letters and sets for fall, winter, and spring, this teacher-created collection has everything you need to knock your students' socks off!
Explore the complete collection to find kits that incorporate student activities, plus easy options to create interactive or birthday boards!
We didn't stop there! Read on for inspiration and ideas from the Teach Starter teacher team, including tips on how to hang your bulletin board borders, tips on setting up boards that will last and more!
DIY Bulletin Board Tips for Teachers — From Teachers
Our Teach Starter teacher team has put up many a bulletin board over all the years in classrooms from Texas to Georgia to Indiana, so before you download your next bulletin board kit, we need to divulge a few hard-earned tips!
- Use a Fabric Backdrop —Bulletin board paper is great, but 16-year teaching veteran Randi Smithkept some bulletin board fabric up for years because fabric holds up and lasts forever.
- Don’t Staple Cutouts to Your Bulletin Board Immediately —Instead, Smith suggests using thumbtacks so you can step back, eye up what’s level and what isn’t, then move things around.
- Start Hanging Words in the Middle —This tip comes from long-time educator and Texas-based resource manager Natalie Brown. Building out from the center helps ensure you keep things even!
- Use Clothespins —Planning to make a student work bulletin board? Teach Starter resource creator and former classroom teacher Brittany Collins suggests gluing tacks to the back of clothespins to display student work easily on your bulletin boards. Bonus, Teach Starter's "student work coming” printableswork as a perfect placeholder until your students’ work starts flowing in!
- Convert a Whiteboard to a Bulletin Board — Do you have a classroom whiteboard that's seen it's better days? Convert it to a bulletin board with a few simple changes! If it's magnetic, use magnet squares to help make your bulletin board paper stick. You can also buy magnetized borders to hang!
- Use a Permanent Marker to Hide Staples —Find a marker that matches the color of your cutouts, and poof, the staples disappear!
- Convert an Old Chalkboard to a Bulletin Board —If you have one of those old chalkboards in your room that's so marked up it can't be used, cover it in felt with the help of some hook and loop dots, and it's a bulletin board!
Bulletin boards be set up to serve countless purposes in the classroom. This"We're a Bright Bunch" board was designed to welcome students back to school.
How to Store Bulletin Board Borders
Bulletin board borders come in handy to make the edges of your board look neat and tidy and complete the look, but if you're anything like us, you have a LOT of them hanging around!
So how do you store all those borders to use in the future? Here are some of our favorite storage tips:
- Put clothespins on a clothes hanger, and clip each set of bulletin board borders to a single pin.
- Clean out empty frosting containers, roll up your borders, then slip them inside the container. A piece of painter's tape at the end of the roll will keep them secure, but make sure you label the container so you know what's inside!
- Use a binder clip to clip them together, and hang them from a hook in your classroom closet.
- Use a binder clip to clip them together, then string the collection of binder clips on a binder ring to keep them all together.
- Use holiday wreath bags.
- Roll them up, tape them off, then slip them into a hanging shoe organizer.
- Use an under-the-bed storage box to lay them flat, then slip the box at the bottom of your closet.
- Use pants hangers to hang each set of borders.
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Make your classroom or hallway bulletin board complete with printable bulletin board letters!
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- Plus Plan Nouns, Proper Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs and Conjunctions Posters Enhance student understanding of the 8 parts of speech with these colorful, informative, and easily-referenced grammar wall posters for the classroom covering nouns, verbs and more!
- Plus Plan Life Cycle of a Frog – Poster Pack Display information about the life cycle of a frog with this set of 6 posters.
- Plus Plan Hello From Around the World Pennants Decorate your classroom with this set of pennant banners that displays different ways to say hello around the world.
- Plus Plan Place Value Chart – Printable Banner Use this printable place value chart filled with different ways to represent a number in your classroom.
- Plus Plan Days of the Week Calendar Math Display Help your students learn about the days of the week with a printable Calendar Math Classroom Display.
- Plus Plan Classroom Birthday Board - Birthday Beehive Celebrate your students’ sweet birthdays with a fun Birthday Beehive Classroom Birthday board.
- Plus Plan Thankful For My Gnomies - Thanksgiving Bulletin Board Kit Display Thanksgiving gratitude with an ‘I am Thankful For’ craft template and bulletin board kit.
- Plus Plan Growth Mindset Bulletin Board Remind your students to have a growth mindset with this bulletin board display.
- Plus Plan Camping Bulletin Board - Back to School Make going back to school a sweet adventure with a fun Camping Themed Welcome Back bulletin board kit.
- Plus Plan Taco Bout a Great Class - Back to School Bulletin Board Make going back to school a fiesta with a bright bulletin board that will help your students “Taco ‘Bout” themselves!
- Plus Plan Water Cycle Diagram Classroom Bulletin Board Display Learn about the stages of the water cycle with this interactive classroom water cycle display.
- Plus Plan Read Across America Bulletin Board Kit Take a journey across the country and show off your amazing readers with a Read Across America Bulletin Board Display!
- Plus Plan Back to School Bulletin Board - Roller Coaster All About Me Build a frightfully fun Back to School bulletin board with a printable roller coaster About Me activity.
- Plus Plan Our Hopes and Wishes - New Year Bulletin Board Display Create a New Year bulletin board display to highlight students’ hopes and wishes for the year ahead.
- Plus Plan Ice Cream Birthday Bulletin Board Set Create an ice cream-themed birthday bulletin board for your classroom with this printable set.
- Plus Plan Oh Deer! Winter is Here Bulletin Board Kit Celebrate winter with a bulletin board display.
- Plus Plan Force and Motion Vocabulary Posters Display this set of 22 mini-posters in your classroom when learning about force and motion vocabulary.
- Plus Plan Welcome to Our Herd! Back to School Bulletin Board ‘Mooo-ve’ into a brand new school year with a customizable Farm-themed Back to School Bulletin Board Display.
- Plus Plan Order of the Planets Display Banner Display this banner visually showing the order of the planets for students when they learning about the solar system.
- Plus Plan Classroom Alphabet Poster Pack Create your own classroom alphabet line with these ink-friendly classroom alphabet posters.
- Plus Plan Just Be - Positive Character Traits Bulletin Board Set an optimistic tone and promote positivity with a Just Be…One Word Back to School board.
- Plus Plan Christmas Bulletin Board and Printable Stocking Template Stock up on Christmas cheer with a printable Christmas stocking template and DIY Christmas bulletin board display.
- Plus Plan I'm Done! Early Finishers Choice Board Display Build a useful ‘I’m Done, Now What?’ bulletin board with a printable early finisher task board display kit.
- Plus Plan Ugly Christmas Sweater Bulletin Board Kit Build a Christmas bulletin board with a printable ‘Tis the Season for Ugly Sweaters’ Bulletin board kit.
- Plus Plan Gratitude Tree and Leaves Template Create a "Gratitude Tree" display with a printable tree and individual leaf cutouts.
- Plus Plan Ready for a Jaw-Some Year - Shark Themed Back to School Bulletin Board Prepare for a ‘jaw-some’ back-to-school bulletin board with a printable shark-themed bulletin board pack.
- Plus Plan "Zest" Class Ever! Back to School Bulletin Board Put up the ‘zest’ back to school bulletin board in the building with a printable lemon bulletin board kit.
- Plus Plan High Koala-ty Back to School Bulletin Board Welcome students with a fun, high-’koala-ty’ back to school bulletin board display.
- Plus Plan Thanksgiving Bulletin Board Kit - Thankful For My Little Turkeys Put up a cute Turkey Bulletin Board to show off you thankful you are for all the little turkeys in your classroom.
- Plus Plan Drugs Won't Be a Part of My Story! Red Ribbon Week Door Decorations Win the Red Ribbon Week Door Decorating Contest with a printable Instagram-inspired Red Ribbon Week Door Decor Kit.
- Plus Plan Red Ribbon Week Door Decor - No Bones About It! Halloween Bulletin Board Decorate for Halloween and Red Ribbon Week at the same time with our skeleton-themed Red Ribbon Week door decorations.
