Bulletin Boards

It has been a while since I have been able to write a posting and I am starting to have withdrawals. I am excited to announce that I have a new licensed driver in the house...bitter sweet I must say.

He is my youngest and yes......

he is that goofy...

He always makes me smile.

Anyway.....back to what I really wanted to share. I am blessed to work in a school system. I love my kiddos and I love to design bulletin boards. I work with an Art Therapist and we are two peas in a pod. I thought that I might as well share some ideas with you. Bear in mind..... we are not teachers so ours are a little more on the virtues and encouragement side...

So here is our door. These were put up for the first day of school and will be changing soon but you can tweek the saying too.

I used bulletin board paper to make the pencils and some yellow and pink construction for the erasers and metal connectors. I originally made the pencils which stood side by side on my bulletin board last year and said...we all make mistakes...that's why pencils have erasers. The welcome back sign was made on the computer and we used bulletin board boarders to boarder the sign. I love the dollar tree to purchase my boarders. I have tons of them.

Then we have the side wall ......

We saw something like this and made it our own. I just realized that I have a question mark and an exclamation mark instead of two exclamation marks but I suppose it works. Black bb paper with cut outs of logs and sticks and the flames are made the same way but are taped on with a little bit of curl so they are three dimensional. The words again are on Word and cut into pieces. We wanted to make marshmallows three dimensional too and came up with tissue folded. They turned out really fun. The smoke is just white chalk and boarder is BB boarder too.

We love Dr. Suess but wanted to make it our own so this is our therapist Mrs. S's take on Oh, The Places You'll GO!

The balloons were printed and cut as was the letters. Then just go all out with your fun curves to make the Dr. Suess hills. I love this. Basic yet really fun.

One wall in our room looked really bare and it was the night before school. I was exhausted but I just couldn't leave it....so luckily I keep some of my bulletin board pieces. These are the hills that were separate on the board plus a half circle and some triangles...to make a nice little addition to our space. The part that took the longest was cutting the triangles and drawing the edges of them. I taped the rays at about the 1/4 way mark to get a three d look too.

And then finally... our "Paws" itively good Behavior board.

We taped the Warden Way on the top to go with the behavior. I used paw prints from the internet and was able to print our virtues on them then cut them out. The dog is six pieces. Face, tongue, ears and paws.

So this is our final bulletin board. I hope you can take and use some of the ideas for yourself. I will try to get patterns up soon.