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.
Complete the Bulletin Board
Make your classroom or hallway bulletin board complete with printable bulletin board letters!
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- Plus Plan Sound Wall Classroom Interactive Bulletin Board Print a complete Sound Wall designed to help you enhance your phonics program by displaying the phonemes your students are currently mastering.
- Free Plan Sprinkle Kindness - Bulletin Board Set Get your students reflecting on ways to show kindness with this interactive bulletin board!
- Free Plan Add a Little Sunshine to Someone's Day - Bulletin Board Display Brighten your classroom (and someone's day) with this sunflower-themed bulletin board set.
- Free Plan Morning Greetings Display Greet each student at the door in style with this set of 4 greetings posters.
- Plus Plan Library Bulletin Board Bundle Celebrate your school library and librarian with this bulletin board display.
- 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 High Koala-ty Back to School Bulletin Board Welcome students with a fun, high-’koala-ty’ back to school bulletin board display.
- Plus Plan Hop into Informational Writing - Spring Bulletin Board Celebrate a new season and your budding writers with a new Spring bulletin board display.
- Plus Plan Voice Level Chart - Classroom Display Give your students reminders to maintain appropriate voice levels around the classroom with a voice level chart.
- Plus Plan Kindness Quilt Bulletin Board Set Create classroom community and promote kindness with a World Kindness Day kindness quilt bulletin board printable.
- Plus Plan R-Controlled Vowel Posters Supplement your phonics curriculum with an R-controlled vowel poster display.
- Plus Plan Greek and Latin Roots Anchor Chart Pack Encourage vocabulary development with a set of 24 Greek and Latin Roots anchor charts.
- Plus Plan Classroom Catastrophe Scale – Display Help your students gauge the severity of everyday challenges with this wall display.
- Plus Plan Animal-Themed Decoding Strategy Posters for the Classroom Remind students of the different decoding strategies they can use when reading with this poster set.
- 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 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.
- Free Plan Welcome to Our Hive! - Bulletin Board Display Get students excited about BEE-ing in their new classroom with this bee-themed bulletin board display.
- Free Plan Blank Letter and Number Cutouts A set of printable bulletin board letters and numbers to use when decorating your classroom.
- Plus Plan Adjective Posters Get your students to use new words to describe objects with this set of 13 bright and colorful posters.
- Plus Plan Addition Strategies Posters Create an "addition strategies display" for your students with this set of 7 posters.
- Plus Plan Vivid Action Verbs Posters - Using Strong Verbs Teach your students to omit boring, overused verbs from their writing with a classroom set of Vivid Verb Posters.
- Plus Plan Classroom Alphabet Poster Pack Create your own classroom alphabet line with these ink-friendly classroom alphabet posters.
- Plus Plan Growth Mindset Bulletin Board Remind your students to have a growth mindset with this bulletin board display.
- Plus Plan Classroom Jobs Bulletin Board Keep track of classroom responsibilities with a Classroom Jobs Bulletin Board Display!
- Plus Plan Phases of the Moon Bulletin Board Kit Display information about the phases of this moon with an out-of-this-world 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 Division Strategies Poster Set Use this set of printable classroom posters when teaching different division strategies.
- 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 Printable Skeleton - Halloween Bulletin Board Craft Craft a bit of creepy classroom decor for Halloween with a build-a-skeleton template.
- Plus Plan Choose KINDNESS - Bulletin Board Display Remind your students to choose KINDNESS with this interactive bulletin board display.
- Plus Plan A Book a Day Keeps the Monsters Away! — Bulletin Board Set Print a monsters and reading-themed bulletin board bundle perfect for Halloween!
- Plus Plan Math Center Rotation Board Set up a math stations rotation chart for your students to reference with this display kit.
