Ideas for Bulletin Boards

Ideas from a Resource File

o Look at the topics which will be taught.

o Look at the objectives.

o Create catchy titles to match the objectives.

o Use pictures and articles which have been collected in the resource file. Arrange them in a way which helps teach the objectives.

Creating with Children
o Look at the topics which will be taught.

o Look at the objectives.

o Share the objectives with the children.

o Let the children help create catchy titles, collect materials, and organize and complete displays.

The Collected Wisdom of Others
o Look at the topics which will be taught.

o Look at the objectives.

o Use one or more of the following:

o Personal ideas. Write down ideas as soon as they come to mind. Later the list can be reviewed and the best selected.

o Photographs of bulletin boards. Share some with the children.

o Teaching methods textbooks and professional journals.

o Bulletin board idea books (Adapt them to the local situation.)

o Card files of ideas.

o Yellow pages, newspaper, or magazine ads, brochures, and pamphlets for design ideas.

o Nature

o Transparencies made from black and white pictures. Sketch shapes on a background and add original ideas.

o Suggestions of other educators. Do not take the ideas of a colleague who might want to save a special experience for the children in another year.


Written by Dr. Loretta Kuse and Dr. Hildegard Kuse