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Bulletin Board,
Door, & Wall Displays
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thevirtualvine.com
2001
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The pictures below are of some things that I've done in the
past. Some of the photos are bad, simply because they're from
YEARS ago and they're all that I have left of the images. So
it's this or nothing. But I think you can get the general idea. If you're looking for bulletin boards for specific themes,
holidays, etc., check the thematic pages. I've included bulletin
board pictures and ideas there as well.
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My neighbor's |
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My neighbor's fall board. Her daughter does an AWESOME
job with pastels and shading. She made the tree and
moon. This photo does not do it justice. |
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This was our
Drug Free door for 2002. We are doing a farm unit, so the door
depicts a garden/pumpkin patch. The speech bubbles convene the
message. The crow says, "You've got something to crow
about if you don't use drugs or tobacco!" (We're also a
tobacco free school) The EAR of corn says, "LISTEN to
others ... don't try tobacco." The scarecrow says, "It
really isn't too smart to smoke." (considering what they're
made of :) ) The pumpkin says, "Use your "gourd"
... don't experiment with drugs."
The crow is
made from hand/feet shapes. The corn has yellow tissue
paper glued onto the corn pattern to form the kernels.
The stalk is a piece of butcher paper twisted and "stripped"
on one end. The scarecrows were a 3D pattern and stuffed
with raffia. The pumpkins are a torn paper art
project. The vine is a piece of green yarn.
We didn't win
the contest, but the children were extremely proud of the
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This bulletin board is in my new classroom. I put
it up last year
after the Aide left. It stayed up for the rest of the
year. I freehanded the mailbox and other stuff, added
flowers, eggs, etc. and then just removed them after the
"season". It says, "Special Delivery" in pastel colors
that matched the hearts. There were big hearts
and tiny hearts that looked like they were spilling out of the
mailbox with all the mail. There were cards, colored
pictures, school pictures, and notes from students and parents.
They were things from long ago that I'd saved, as well as
current things. The pictures I attached to blank white
index cards and stamped what looked like a postage stamp into
the corner. The coloring book pages and notes I attached
to pieces of construction paper. This is a neat idea for a
bulletin board that can stay up all year long! |
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This was our
Gingerbread House that you entered when you entered our classroom
during our Gingerbread unit! In the closeup, you can see the old
woman and the old man looking out one window for the Gingerbread Man,
and in the other window the Gingerbread Man's looking outside for
them! :) You can't really tell from the pictures, but the Gingerbread
Men on the door were all decorated by the children and their families
as take-home projects. |
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a
close up |
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This was our
Halloween door for 2000. We were doing a pumpkin unit, so the door
depicts the 5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate. The poem is what's
written on the paper that the crows have in their beaks. The witch
was made 3D so that she'd stand out from the door by backing her with
little pieces of packing foam. The cornstalk is made from real corn
husks bought at the grocery store.
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This door belonged to a teacher down the hall. |
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This was one of
our door displays in the old building. The graphics came
from Cute Colors.
We don't do doors in the new building. Many of the
teachers do hang a "school type" wreath or something seasonal
on their door. |
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This was the same
bulletin board as below the next school year. Again, it
stayed up outside our classroom the whole year. What a
timesaver! |
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This is the right side of the fence. If using this
idea, I'd suggest making sure that your line is very taunt.
The work makes it sag. |
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This is the left side of the fence with student working
hanging on it. |
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During the year that we had the crayon display
below, I
got the idea for this display scene. I designed the scene
on my computer using a graphics program. Then we painted
over the crayon display and painted this one on. There's a
clothesline with clothespins that runs between the two trees
that made hanging the students' work so much easier. This
display was in our old building (now Middle School) and we're
now in a new building. |
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This was a
bulletin board in the hallway outside our classroom door that
was done at the beginning of the year and that's it! You
can read the saying on the hive on the
Busy, Busy Bees
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This was a permanent wall
display that we painted in our hallway to display the students'
work. We were in an old building and the hall was
YUCKY! So it didn't take much talk to get the principal to
let us paint this on the wall. At the other end, there was
a big crayon box. On this end, you can see the 3-D
coloring book. We actually added uncolored coloring pages,
then in the center was a colored picture of children holding a
sign that said, "Mrs. Montgomery's Class." The colored
picture was actually a Print Artist graphic that I made and
printed. The coloring book idea came about due to a need
to cover a small hole in the wall right there about the size of
a quarter! :) The butterflies weren't originally part of
the display. They were a part of a door display that we
did, and once we took it down, the TA just stuck them up there. The students' work went
inside the crayon display area and was attached to the wall with
masking tape. The idea for this came from the color scheme
in my room. The walls were yellow, the door frames blue,
the baseboards green, and the doors red! I told everyone
that it was painted like a crayon box. So from that came
the hall display idea. |
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