Spring Bulletin Board Ideas

Decorating Preschool Classroom with Spring Lesson Plan Theme

Feb 14, 2009

Spring bulletin board ideas to help liven up your classroom and teach your students about this sunny, flowery season.

Help your class jump into spring with these fun bulletin board ideas. Implement a lesson with your chosen theme to include not just art, but math andliteracy activities too, and go here for Easter ideas!

Lady Bug Love Spring Bulletin Board

If you plan on introducing a bug theme unit, this is a great segue to begin the lesson. Do this activity after teaching your students about lady bugs (make sure to include what lady bugs like to eat, aphids!) For older preschoolers, trace an oval on red construction paper for each child and a few circles on black construction paper for each child. Talk about the shapes and let them practice cutting skills.

For the head of the lady bugs, take pictures of the children’s faces, cut them out in a circle, and glue to a larger black circle before gluing to the body of the lady bug. Use the brown butcher paper on the board as a tree trunk. Twist long pieces around for 3D like branches. Let the children make construction paper leaves and flowers or pick different kinds of faux flowers.

Provide some dried watermelon seeds for each child to glue on his flower or leaf before pasting onto the board. Once you attach the individual lady bugs to the board, add the black pipe cleaners for 3D legs.

'We’re Blooming Into Spring' Bulletin Board

This simple bulletin board idea goes well with any plant theme unit or lesson plan. Let each child chose her flower's color and cut out on her own or supervise as needed. Let the children decorate the flowers with glitter before attaching pictures to the center of the flowers. For the grass on the bulletin board, have a cutting center with green paper and use the scraps that have been cut by the children.

Introduce the cotton and talk about where it comes from. If you’re able to find real cotton and cottonseeds, this is a great sensory table idea. Use the cotton balls as the clouds in the sky.

'Spring Has Sprung' Bulletin Board

Follow up a flower lesson plan activity with this bulletin board and talk about the color wheel and how mixing colors make new colors.

Using food coloring, let each child choose a color for his or her flower, dipping the coffee filters in the bowl or using a squirt bottle or paint brush and brushing it on the filter. Once finished with the coffee filter, repeat with the muffin liner. Encourage to mix colors like blue and red to see what colors are made. Provide a food coloring sensory table with sheets of white paper and droppers so they can experiment.

Set everything aside to dry. Have the children paint the stems of the flowers (popsicle sticks) green and cut out leaf patterns on green construction paper. Have a large sheet of white butcher paper ready for them to finger paint with yellow and red paint. Ask what color these colors will make together. When dry, cut into a large circle for the sun (what do all plants need?).

Glue the muffin liner to the center of the filter and the picture inside the liner. Glue this to the child’s green stem and attach the leaves. Attach Easter basket grass on the bottom of bulletin board and attach all the flowers and the sun!

For flower and ladybug patterns and more station ideas for the Spring theme unit or lesson plan, visit Preschool Express.

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