Fall Bulletin Board Ideas:
Start the Year Off Right!
At the start of a school year, many teachers are looking for fall bulletin board ideas. They want their classrooms to look festive and inviting for the new students coming in.
There are many choices that you have for fall bulletin boards. If you are pressed for time, perhaps you want to create a general one that will stay up the whole season.
You may want to change your bulletin board monthly to reflect the holidays or themes you are teaching each month.
Find great fall bulletin board ideas and inspiration below!
General Fall Bulletin Board Ideas
These fall bulletin board ideas are for ones that could stay up the entire fall season, if you don't have time (or energy!) to change them monthly.
"FALL In Love With Reading" - For this one, I made a color copy of the cover of some popular children's books (think The Cat in the Hat, Curious George, & The Very Hungry Caterpillar. To decorate the bulletin board, I attached a large brown tree trunk shape. I then made Ellison die cut leaves in various shapes and colors and attached them all over the tree top and falling to the ground. I hung the pictures of the covers scattered around the board. The students loved discussing what books they had read, which ones they owned, and which ones they wanted to read!
"Falling Into Autumn" - This bulletin board started with a large picture I found of a child jumping. Then I used real fall leaves that we collected on a nature walk to build a leaf pile and leaves that were flying up from the pile. So the end result was a board that looked like a child was jumping in a pile of leaves. I also found a small rake and attached it to the side of the board for decoration.
"Fall Scene" - I covered the bulletin board with orange paper. Then I attached a large tree trunk picture in the middle. During our fall theme unit, I took students on a walk around the school to find fall leaves. I stapled the leaves to the tree and around the ground. I also had some hay that stapled to the board to look like a haystack. Lastly, I attached a picture of a scarecrow and some pumpkins to complete the bulletin board.
Fall Bulletin Board Ideas - Month by Month
September
"Our Bushel of Great Kids" - Each child is given an apple shape cut out of red paper. They practice writing their names on it (we help if needed). The bulletin board has a large picture of a bushel basket (I weaved strips of brown paper to do this). Then all the apples get added in and around the basket. The kids love looking for their names and their friends' names too!
"Apple Tree" - I actually had my students help me create this bulletin board! Ahead of time, I covered the bulletin board with blue paper at the top for the sky and green paper at the bottom for the grass. I attached a large brown tree trunk shape to the middle and covered the top with a large green circle (for the leaves). I also cut apples in half and put red paint in a dish. One by one, I let the students come up and dip an apple half in the red paint and stamp the paint onto the tree and around on the grass. It turned out SO cute and the kids loved helping create it!
"Welcome to the Pumpkin Patch" - One of our art projects in October is to create pumpkins. Each of the children's pumpkins turns out so unique and I love to display them. I create a bulletin board just for them. The background is brown at the bottom to look like a field and the top is blue for the sky. The pumpkins are placed around the field, making sure the children's names are on the front so they know which one is theirs! To make it more decorative I add vines (from the craft store) and some hay here and there.
"We Are BATTY Over Books" - This one is very similar to the "FALL In Love With Reading" board above. I made a color copy of the cover of each book we read in October. I added each cover to the bulletin board after we read it. To decorate, I found pictures of bats and attached them, and even some plastic ones to hang from the top! The kids loved looking at the covers of the books and remembering what the stories were about.
November
"We Are Thankful" - First,
cover your board with orange or yellow paper. I created a giant turkey
body and stapled him to the middle of the board. I attached the words
"We Are Thankful" along the top and bottom. I had students trace and
then cut out turkey feather shapes out of yellow, brown, red, and
orange construction paper. Then I asked each student what they were
most thankful for and wrote it on their feather. When we were all done,
I hung the feathers around the turkey to form his tail. The parents
LOVED it (and I did too of course)!
"Harvesting Good Character" - For this fall bulletin board, I put a picture of a large cornucopia. Then I found pictures in magazines of children showing good behavior (like giving a hug, cleaning up, holding hands with a friend, etc.). I glued the pictures onto large colorful vegetable shapes. I stapled the shapes to look like they were spilling out of the cornucopia. The students and I talked about each of the pictures and how it showed good character traits.
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