Do you need creative yet cheap, quick, and easy bulletin board ideas? Get ready to transform your classroom or hallway bulletin board into an inspiring and interactive space with these sure-to-engage ideas. You’ll find
- seasonal displays that celebrate the beauty of each time of year
- back-to-school themes that set the stage for a successful academic journey
- music-inspired boards that inform and entertain
- jumping off points to engage and create SEL discussions
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Evergreen Bulletin Boards
Musical Genres Bulletin Board
This idea came from a post on a Facebook music group page. This clever teacher created a bulletin board using-
- music genre posters
- tap microphone buttons
Using the mic buttons, record a snippet of a song example for each genre and use command strips to adhere them to the poster/bulletin board.
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The impact goes beyond coming and going to music. Individuals and classes passing by stop to look, read, and hear the music.
Musical Athletes Bulletin Board
It can’t get any simpler and effective than this board showing musical athletes. The athlete information is free from Bigger Better Brains.
The keyboard margin paper plates are from Amazon and can be used over and over again and in so many other ways.
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Find more music-athlete themed bulletin boards on the Olympic blog post!
Music Fish SCALE Bulletin Board
Such a quick, fun bulletin board that uses Under the Sea Bulletin Board Paper, paper plate fish, and paper lettering.
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Swifty-Themed Eras Tour | Trends Catch Students’ Attention
Use trendy memes, movies, and personalities such as Taylor Swift to connect with your students. This Golden Book about her would be great for music centers. (affiliate link)
Composition Book Bulletin Boards
The black and white composition book theme is a popular choice for your classroom decor. The letters and notes are paper and the black and white composition paper comes in large rolls. You can also get composition borders in straight and curved.
SOAR Music Hot Air Balloon Bulletin Boards
These inspirational boards can be in so many fun color schemes. Here you see primary colors and pastels. The hot air balloon is narrowing ovals stacked on top of one another. When you make them yourself, you can fit to any size display area.
MUSIC Acrostic Bulletin Board
This elementary music bulletin board has so much flexibility to the connections and integrations with other subjects.
Fun color combinations make each of the five areas POP. Besides pastels, other color theme possibilities are rainbow, gradient of one color, earth tones, vintage, etc.
Let Music Be Part of Your World
This underwater-themed bulletin board uses paper plates cut in half for the jellyfish with dimensional ribbons and streamers as the tentacles. Each jellyfish has a musical term on it.
The fish are plates with a cutout triangle for the mouth and the triangle becomes the tail. The fish have music notes and rests for the eyes and scales.
Add paper seaweed that is the same shape cut multiple times. The border is also a same-shape time-saving trick with a fish shape, an oval with a triangle attached, and 3 circular bubbles. Production line assembly! Cheap, fun, and a great way to connect to the movie Little Mermaid. Give it a go!
Making Fin-tastic Music, Under the Sea
A bulletin board made almost entirely of paper plates! The fish are plates with a cut out triangle for the mouth and the triangle serves as a tail for the fish.
You’re a Shining Star…
Using Earth, Wind, and Fire’s iconic song “Shining Star” helps create a bulletin board that speaks to individual student talents.
It’s an SEL jumping-off point for self-discovery, affirmation, and worth. A great discussion prompt would be, “Which one or more of these stars means the most to you? If the one you’re thinking of isn’t up there, tell me so I can add it.”
Planet Talent is a circle with some dry-brushed white paint (or glitter would be fun). There’s lots of lettering, and then the stars that detail the talent VERBS of music-making. Use aluminum foil for the border and a few other glittering stars.
Classroom teachers could use verbs such as reader, writer, creator, scientist, engineer, designer, problem-solver, and other action items.
Add a little paper seaweed and some fun additions such as caps, tiaras, headphones, and a microphone. For the bulletin board BORDER, use cut in half rainbow party plates from Dollar Tree. They are so cute and give it that underwater iridescence. Cheap, fun, and a great way to connect to the movie, “The Little Mermaid.”
Other titles:”Making Fin-tastic (Choices, Students, Friends) Under the Sea.” Or “Fin-tastic Students, Learning, Helping, Kindness, etc. Under the Sea.”
Back to School Bulletin Boards
Musical Road Trip: Beginning a Year of Adventures
Lay out a highway with a curvy piece of black paper. The route will depend on if your bulletin board is longer in width or height. Use fun titles for your highway signs and car license plates.
The car is made from
- parallelograms with rounded corners
- squares for the windows
- rectangles for the bumper, wheels, and license plate
- ovals for the back lights and door handle.
Other titles: Road Trip!, Ms. B’s Class Road Trip!, Second Grade Road Trip!
Winter Bulletin Boards
Frosty Winter Wonderland
This might be the fastest bulletin board to make EVER!
With paper plates, some construction paper rectangles (scarves and hats), circles for eyes, triangles for the nose, and a magic marker curve for the mouth and you are done!
Add designs on the plates such as music notes, math facts, vocabulary words, etc. Each snowman could be a different theme.
Other titles: Frosty Singing Wonderland, Frosty Adding Wonderland, Frosty Learning Wonderland, Frosty Happy Wonderland.
Bulletin Board Supplies & Resources
Keyboard Table Runner
A 6 foot table runner that becomes the perfect decoration for a small space like a door or as a header across the top of a bulletin board.
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FUN Paper Plate Designs
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Cut paper plates in half to create outer and inner bulletin board borders.
These pastel plates (see below for link) would be gorgeous on a spring bulletin board. The multi-color set allows lots of flexibility with the colors you choose.
Rainbow plates or the rainbow border plates would be fabulous borders for any bulletin board!
Vinyl Record Border
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Spring Bulletin Boards
Music Is Blooming
This design is so adaptable! You can write anything on the petals from elements of music to instruments of the orchestra!
The center could say “Woodwinds” and then the petals could represent lots of woodwind instruments THEN in a month, change to a different instrument family. Your base could stay the same for 4 months as you change out the instruments.
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With the hot air balloon bulletin board, is that from a kit or made from scratch? If a kit, do you have a link?
Unfortunately, no kit. But I can explain how to do it. Looking at the red, green, and blue balloon, start with a round green circle for the base, the main part of the balloon. Then cut out a blue oval slightly smaller than the green circle and place it on top of the green. The blue oval blocks most of the green except the sides. Then cut out a red oval slightly smaller than the blue and put it on top of the blue. Again, the red blocks out most of the blue except the sides. Then end with the very narrow green. Cut a small green oval for the “inside” of the balloon that shows. The basket is a square and you can use a marker to outline and add the ropes.