Where's the Teacher

• Create a Where's Waldo-type bulletin board. Have each child draw a self-portrait. The self-portraits should all be the same size. Children can use graph paper to help with this. For younger children, you can give each child an identical cardboard cut-out of a person that they can color and decorate. At the same time, make a self-portrait of yourself and any other teacher or teaching assistant in the classroom. Cover your bulletin board with a sheet of construction paper or cloth and make a border all around it. Place all of the self-portraits onto the bulletin board. Make a sign for the bulletin board that asks students to find the teachers.
  
  

Learning Tree

• This is a good autumn activity but can work at any time of year. Cover your bulletin board with blue or green construction paper or cloth. Using brown construction paper or craft paper, cut out the shape of a large tree trunk, complete with branches, but do not include leaves. Attach this to the bulletin board using glue or staples. You can also make a huge tree to go directly onto the wall, using double-sided tape to attach it. Have the children design, color and cut out leaves to stick on the tree. The leaves could contain words associated with a current lesson. For example, it could be a spelling tree and children could add leaves containing each week's spelling words.
  
  

Flip the Facts

• This bulletin board idea works well with art studies, but you can adapt it to any topic. Cover your bulletin board in colorful construction paper or cloth. Pin a picture of a famous work of art to the middle of the board. Around this, place colored file folders, with the opening facing down. Write a question about the artwork on the outside of the folder, and write the answer on the inside. Children can then lift the flap to find the answer. Instead of art, you could use a picture of an animal and questions about that animal or a picture of a place and questions about that place.
  
  

Coming Attractions

• Use this bulletin board to build a sense of excitement about future lessons. Cover your bulletin board with black construction paper or cloth. Print out large rectangles with the words "Coming Attractions" and "Upcoming Events" on them in large yellow block lettering. Create two or three separate areas on your bulletin board using round yellow labels -- so they look like theater lights, and pin up a "Coming Attractions" sign in each area. Below the sign, place cryptic information about upcoming lessons. For example, if you will be studying the middle ages, you can put up a picture of a sword and a castle. Children can have fun guessing exactly what the lesson will be about.