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A new school year means a new classroom — or a chance to give your current set-up a refresh! How you set up your room can help you stay organized, make expectations clear to students, and create a comfortable and exciting learning environment for your class. Being intentional with bulletin board ideas and classroom decor choices can help support student growth and truly deepen learning experiences.
Whether you’re looking for new ways to decorate your classroom or searching for something you can use year after year, get your space ready with these easy bulletin board ideas and classroom decorations.
Unique Bulletin Board Ideas
Get your class excited about learning with unique bulletin board ideas they’ve never seen before. From back-to-school bulletin board ideas to topical concept bulletin board ideas, you’re only limited by the collective creativity of teachers around the world.
- Growing Word Wall: When students have extra time after an activity or assignment, have them draw and color a word that represents their feelings that day. Add these to your word wall bulletin board over a week, a month, or a year.
- Class Timeline: Create a timeline bulletin board specific to your class that highlights important events from the years they were born, the year they entered your class, and even predictions for the year they graduate.
- Custom Comic Strip: Create a background that looks like a blank comic strip. Have students collectively create a story from start to finish. To keep it focused, ask them to expand on a topic you’re currently covering, and assign teams for the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
- Rube Goldberg Machine: Use tubes and other 3D objects to create a Rube Goldberg machine on your bulletin board that gets a ping pong ball into a basket.
- Curriculum Countdown: Write each unit for your curriculum on a separate sticky note. Stick all the notes to your bulletin board in order. As your class completes a unit, let a student remove that note from the board.
- Portrait Mosaic: Use small photos of the students in your class to create a larger image. Print the photos in different grayscale shades to help your larger image come to life.
- Reward Yourself: Create a bunch of awards for positive little things a student might do in a school day and hang them all over your board. Encourage students to take an award they feel they earned that day.
- Book Club Grab Bag: Hang a bag on your bulletin board that contains small laminated replicas of book covers for the books your class could read. Each month, have one student draw a book from the bag and stick it on the board. This is the book the class will read for the month.
- Who Said That?: Keep a running list of funny or inspirational things students in your class say for the first couple of months of the year. Add these to your bulletin board with movable name tags, so students can have fun matching the classmate with the saying.
- Passing the Pencil: Have each student write a note that starts with “I’m passing the pencil to someone who…” and ends with something nice or encouraging they know about the classmate they are assigned. Arrange these on the board with a pencil between each note to serve as an arrow from one to the next.
Lead with learning objectives bulletin boards
Bulletin board designs should be visually appealing, but they can also be useful. Set the tone for your students’ day by letting them know what they’ll learn as soon as they enter the room.
Learning Objectives Display – Editable Learning Targets Bulletin Board | Decor
By Learning in Wonderland
Grades: K-3rd
Use this kit to create a beautiful and low-maintenance objectives bulletin board! It includes ready-to-print and editable headers, editable objectives posters, and two sizes of letters.
Classroom Decor Pennant Banners
By Fresh Out of Inspiration
Grades: PreK-12th
This resource includes pennant banners for a calendar, schedule, “I can” statements, and more. It also comes with circle banners for a friends and family section or a focus wall. The wide variety of editable color choices allows you to customize all banners to your color scheme.
Highlight specific subject areas with topical bulletin board ideas
Make the subject you teach part of your classroom theme with posters, banners, and editable labels. You can even use this space to highlight CCSS or your learning objectives.
Social Emotional Learning SEL School Counselor Bulletin Board for Mental Health
By Rise over Run
Grades: Not Specific
This social-emotional learning bulletin board kit is designed to promote positivity and student well-being while being incredibly easy to set up! It includes bold letters and SEL phrases to fill out a 4’x4’ or 4’x8’ bulletin board.
Writer’s Workshop Bulletin Board Print, Laminate, and Done!
By Performing in Education
Grades: 3rd-12th
Teach all types of writing like a pro with this easy-to-follow writer’s workshop bulletin board! This set comes with a student checklist, so students can check off each step as they go.
Math Talk Bulletin Board Bundle
By Hanging with Mrs Hulsey
Grades: 2nd-6th
This math board set works great for math talks, math centers, teaching problem-solving steps, or displaying student growth. It includes titles, additional letters, and conversation starter cards.
What to Listen for in Music Bulletin Board Set
By Cori Bloom
Grades: K-12th
This bulletin board set is a collection of vocabulary posters for your music room, designed to guide students as they listen to and discuss music. It includes 15 musical term posters with additional vocabulary cards for each term and 2 different decorative ribbon titles, all printable in your choice of color or black & white.
3 Ways to Read Bulletin Board Printables
By music with mrs dunc
Grades: PreK-8th
Help students learn to read music with this simple bulletin board set. It includes a colored scale and note letters from C to C, along with Solfege hand signs.
College & Career Awareness Bulletin Board
By College Counselor Studio
Grades: 6th-12th
These college and career-focused motivational posters are easy to set up, ink-friendly, and impactful for students. There are over 30 posters and banner options, so you can customize the board.
Creative Classroom Decoration Ideas
Bulletin boards aren’t the only place you can use to jazz up your learning space! Consider these classroom decorations to help students, no matter which wall they’re looking at.
Make classroom expectations clear
Classroom decor can be fun and functional. Set your class up for success by making your rules, procedures, and expectations clear with these quick and easy digital and print resources.
Classroom Procedures and Expectations {Editable} PowerPoint – For MS and HS
By Adventures in Science
Grades: 3rd-12th
Having classroom procedures and expectations in place for the first day of school can make all the difference in how your year goes. Set the right tone in your class from the very first day with this editable PowerPoint! The text for the procedures is fully editable.
Whole Brain Teaching Classroom Rules Posters
By Laura Candler
Grades: PreK-6th
There are two sets of posters, and both are available in full color as well as black and white. Version 1 has clipart with primary grade students, and Version 2 has clipart with upper elementary students.
Assign classroom jobs with ease
Taking care of the classroom is a task that your students can actively be part of. Have your wall decor also be a classroom management strategy with posters and worksheets that explain and assign jobs.
Classroom Jobs and Chores Posters & Worksheets BUNDLE SS
By Adulting Made Easy aka SpedAdulting
Grades: Not Specific
This year-long activity bundle includes over 40 classroom jobs and household chores, each with simplified descriptions. Also included is a symbol-supported task analysis version to break down each task step-by-step — perfect for learners who benefit from visual guidance and structured routines.
Classroom Jobs EDITABLE Classroom Decor Classroom Management
By Lindsay Flood
Grades: 3rd-8th
This resource comes with 26 job cards to cover all the tasks students could help with in your classroom. There are three font choices available, and you get a color version and a black-and-white version.
Support mental health with social-emotional learning posters
Encourage your students’ emotional growth with social-emotional learning posters that address mindfulness, stress management, growth mindset, coping skills, and more.
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING POSTER BUNDLE: SEL Classroom & School Counseling Decor
By WholeHearted School Counseling
Grades: K-9th
This Social Emotional Learning Poster Bundle contains 10 unique SEL posters that are perfect for your classroom, school counseling office, or even home! Each poster offers visual supports to remind students of ways to practice self-regulation, coping tools, positive self-talk, growth mindset, conflict resolution, mindfulness, and more.
Make math concepts more than just numbers
Use classroom posters as resources to remind students of important core concepts and processes.
Invisible Math Posters and Worksheets – Math Classroom Decor
By Amy Harrison
Grades: 6th-9th
This comprehensive math decor resource includes 16 invisible math posters, 10 handouts, and more! These reminders will help students remember those invisible 1’s in math.
Geometry Word Wall | Geometry Vocabulary
By Scaffolded Math and Science
Grades: 10th
Standards: CCSS HSG-CO-A.1, A.3, A.4
This geometry word wall shows geometry vocabulary and concepts through bright visuals and examples. It references geometric transformations, triangles, quadrilaterals, parallel and perpendicular, skew lines, parallel planes, polygons, and so much more!
Remind students of important social studies skills
Reinforce important social studies skills with posters that highlight basic things like how to read a map.
Map Skills Posters
By Nicole Hernandez – A Teacher’s Idea
Grades: K-3rd
Help your students understand the world of maps with these chevron themed colorful posters. Basic map skills and concepts are defined and illustrated to help students gain a better understanding of this essential skill.
Surround students in science
Science is all around us — literally, when you decorate your room with science posters.
Scientific Method Posters | Scientific Method Posters | Bulletin Board
By Cooties and Cuties
Grades: K-8th
This bulletin board kit and reliable recording sheet will make experimenting a breeze. This low-maintenance take on the scientific method enhances each science unit of the year. Use the predictable recording sheet with each experiment to take the confusion out of the scientific process.
Famous Scientists & Science Careers, Diverse Posters for Bulletin Boards & Decor
By Kessler Science
Grades: 5th-12th
This beautiful set of 27 posters features a wide collection of famous scientists and their careers! Print and hang them with the included name tags, or make a game for students to match the names to the scientists. There’s also an extension activity with prompts for students to research and write an essay about one of the featured careers.
Bring words to life with ELA decor
Posters depicting famous novels and authors, reading strategies, or literary concepts can further help your students feel like they’re a part of the story of your class.
Genre Posters-Fiction Non Fiction-Genre
By Primary Cornerstone
Grades: 1st-2nd
This 50-poster pack is colorful and easy for students to understand. The posters have large fonts to display the name of the genre. Underneath the genre is a color ribbon to help students quickly identify if the genre is fiction or non-fiction. Make them poster size to display, print them on 8.5×11 paper for a focus wall, or print them in a miniature size to place on rings in your library.
Reading Comprehension Strategies -Annotating/Marking the Text Skills Mini Poster
By Jenn Liu — Engaging to Empower
Grades: 7th-12th
Need help teaching critical reading, an essential study skill? Get this mini-poster to teach or remind your middle or high school students how to use annotation and active reading strategies to mark the text while reading fiction or non-fiction!
Immerse your class in Spanish everywhere they look
Immersion is a popular method for teaching new languages, so why not make your Spanish classroom scream “Spanish” with decor?
Spanish Classroom Decor Spanish Speaking Countries Flags Labeled Banners Hearts
By Sra Cruz
Grades: K-12th
This Spanish classroom décor bundle includes four different versions of flags of Spanish-speaking countries to decorate your classroom, hallway, bulletin boards, classroom door, and more! It includes labeled flags, hearts, and a banner.
Dual Language Classroom Labels – Free Bilingual Classroom Labels
By Biliteracy Now
Grades: 1st-5th
These color-coded classroom labels are perfect for any bilingual or dual language classroom! The resource comes with 100 labels.
Let art inspire your class
Curate a culture of creativity when you highlight many aspects of the art world in your classroom decor.
Art Teaching Quotes – 10 Posters for Classroom Decor
By The Little Teacher Lady
Grades: 6th-12th
This product includes 10 art teaching quote posters for classroom decor and is available in a PDF. Each page includes a brightly colored scalloped frame and a fun font.
Let TPT help you decorate your classroom
Whether you’re the type to keep your decor the same all year or change it up from month to month, you’ll find even more ideas for school bulletin boards from TPT Teacher-Authors. Consider your goals as a teacher and the vibe you want your classroom to evoke when selecting bulletin boards and classroom decor.
