If you can’t really be on the beach, you can bring the beach to your classroom. Set the mood with a Tropical Paradise Bulletin Board. Or maybe flamingos are more your style. With ready-made slogans and lots of cute pieces you can arrange to suit your tastes, this is a fast… Continue reading
“Take a Hike” can be a great summer classroom theme! Use the simple hiker icons shown in the trail markers here as a guide for cutting out your own bulletin board pieces. Dress your bulletin boards in green or brown, cut the icons in white, and add a few choice arrows.… Continue reading
A dinosaur theme is always a crowd pleaser, whether you’re doing it for dino-mad kindergartners or getting serious about geological time with a high school science class. It’s also great for those of us who like our bulletin boards ready made. There are lots of options: Eureka’s Smithsonian Amazing… Continue reading
Farm themes provide lots of opportunity for social studies and science! Continue reading
We love aviation as a classroom theme for all ages. It’s easy to set up your classroom, science and social studies connections abound, and the theme fits in well with all kinds of motivational and character programs. Our linked resources will give you some great computer skills practice, too. Also… Continue reading
There are some real advantages for using a sports theme. It can be energizing, it gives you a natural lead-in for lessons on health and character, it brings up natural science, lit, and social studies connections, and it’s easy to decorate for. Continue reading
The image of super sleuths tracking down the truth is a great one for learning. Magnifying Glass Cut-Outs are perfect for holding student photos If you prefer DIY, magnifying glasses are easily made with simple shapes. Cut the whole shape twice from black or brown paper, and then cut… Continue reading
Choose a trendy theme for your classroom this year: a cactus classroom theme. It works with your cowboy classroom, makes a great starting point for a study of biomes, suits a Spanish class, and looks great! There are some very snazzy ready-made decoratives for a cactus theme this year. This… Continue reading
You can’t go wrong with the classics. If that’s not enough of a reason to consider apples for a classroom theme, here are a few more reasons: There is nothing so easy to find as apple decorations. Choose apples and you can get your room put together fast. There are stickers,… Continue reading
Not everyone approves of using pirates in the classroom, but you can’t deny that many students find them appealing and even exciting. There was a time when the line between pirate and explorer was fairly fine (Sir Francis Drake springs to mind), and there certainly is a long literary tradition… Continue reading
