Check Out This Lineup | Welcome Bulletin Board Idea

Welcome Back to School Bulletin Board Idea

Photo Source: gardenofpraise.com

Welcome your students back in dynamic style with this colorful board from Garden of Praise. Students are sure to love seeing their picture as they walk into the classroom. Not only that, the board acts as a “year book” of sorts, helping students get to know each other in the first few weeks of class!

Check Out This Lineup Bulletin Board

  • Background: Light blue bulletin board paper.
  • Title: “Check Out This Lineup!”
  • Border: Complimentary solid color bulletin board border or summer themed trimmer.
  • Decoration: 1) The Clothesline. Cut several pieces of string or yarn, stretching them across the bulletin board {from end to end}. Attach them with thumb tacks. 2) The T-Shirts. Create a card stock template to trace onto construction paper or find a black and white clip art print to directly onto the colored paper and cut out. Paste a student picture onto each t-shirt, scripting their name underneath, and “hang” them on the clothesline with mini wooden clothespins. 3) The Details. If you have room, add a sun cutout to the corner using yellow construction paper or scraps of yellow background paper.

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UPDATE {June 3, 2011}:

Got an email yesterday with this gem of a bulletin board ~ thanks to Vicki Fernandes for sending us a picture of your creation! It turned out “tee-rriffic”! :)

 

Summer Back To School Preschool Bulletin Board Idea

Photo Source: Vicki Fernandes

 

Vicki writes, “I just made this today! I had all the kids color a t-shirt that I had cut out. Then stapled yarn and hung the t-shirts up with clothing pins. Their names are written in the middle of each shirt. It was quick and easy!”

Thanks again, Vicki, for sending this in!

~ Kayla

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  • Cortney Lyon

    I love, love, love this board! I am actually getting younger kiddo’ next year and this would be so age appropriate for them. I am so excited! Thanks for linking up, I’am going to add you to my Google Reader, I can see tat you will be a great resource!

    • http://bulletinboardideas.org/ Kayla Johnson

      Hi Cortney,

      So glad you found the feature useful! Even though it was used as a back to school bulletin board, we love how it still ‘feels’ like summer. If you think about it, snap a picture and send us an image of your board – we’d love to see how it turned out :)

      Thanks so much for visiting and for taking the time to comment! We certainly hope you’ll find our site helpful in the future.

      Happy Creating!
      Kayla

  • Mrs. Johnson

    So cute! Thanks for sharing! Visiting from Teaching Happily Ever After :)

    http://www.wildaboutkindergarten.blogspot.com

    • http://bulletinboardideas.org/ Kayla Johnson

      Hello {from a fellow Mrs. Johnson}! :) So glad to have you stop in and comment. We’re always stumbling across teacher blogs in our searches, but certainly love when we get new resources sent directly to us! Can’t wait to check out your website!

      ~ Kayla

  • Lopezs

    This is a good idea. I will use it as awelcome back for teacher. That way trhe students will know how their teachers look. Thanks:)

    • http://bulletinboardideas.org/ Kayla Johnson

      That’s a fantastic idea! LOVE it :)

  • Wbarrientos1

    I used this idea for my preschoolers (4 year olds). I made two clotheslines since we have different attendance days at our school. (MW) (TTH) (F) I hung the shirts to be used that particular day on the lower line and the rest on the higher one. This helped the children learn to recognize their name the first few weeks of school and see their friends faces as well. After that, I used the shirts to assign seats by placing the shirts at the spot I wanted them to seat in and the children then would replace the T-shirt with a name tag I had hung on the line. (My boss’ idea) The name on their shirts was in caps and on the nameplates was written the way we regularly write it so they could use it as resource when learning to write their name using lowercase letters. Everything was laminated for easy clean up. Thanks for the idea. 

    • http://bulletinboardideas.org/ Kayla Johnson

      What a fantastic example of adapting a design to fit your needs! I love that you expanded the idea to help with seating as well as daily attendance …BRILLIANT! =)

      We’d love to include your adaptations in our feature. Just email us a picture (and a class website/blog address we can link to, if applicable) and we’ll add your awesome ideas in!!

      Have a fantastic day!
      Kayla

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