Make a statement and get parents’ attention with enjoyable and creative bulletin boards. Getting children involved in the project adds such a personal touch. Here are some fun bulletin boards for daycare centers and preschools:
Welcome summer: Summer Solstice begins on June 21. Welcome in sunny summer days. Take close-up pictures of each child wearing sunglasses. Using yellow construction paper, trace and cut out suns with sun rays. Trim, and then paste each child’s face in the middle of a sun. Title the bulletin board: “Made in the Shade”, or “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades”.
Flag Day: June 14 commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, otherwise known as Flag Day. Let the children create a flag out of a white sheet using red and blue paint. Use this as the backdrop for the bulletin board titled “It’s a Grand Old Class Flag”. Add a patriotic border.
Father’s Day: Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. Ask children to bring in a picture of them with their father, grandfather, male role model, or any loved one. Mount the pictures on card stock and use them to create a “Thanks Dad” bulletin board. Add a touching poem or song lyrics about fathers. You can change this to “loved ones day” to accommodate the variety of familial structures in your center.
Juneteenth: Juneteenth is a holiday celebrated on June 19th which commemorates the end of U.S. slavery. Create a Juneteenth quilt as the background for the bulletin board. Give each student a few squares of construction paper. Encourage them to decorate each square with something symbolizing Juneteenth. Then tape the squares together to form a class quilt.
Picnic: What’s summer without a fun picnic…and ants!? Craft a picnic scene with pictures of cutouts of a picnic basket, watermelon, checkered blanket, etc. Create large black ants from construction paper and write each child’s name in white on an ant. Add them to the picnic scene to form a trail of ants.
Creative, Cheap Bulletin Board Backgrounds:
Plain butcher paper or poster board can be dull and monotonous. Add some splash inexpensively by creating out of everyday materials. Ask parents to donate any of these items that they might have tossed or recycled:
- Wrapping paper
- Wall paper
- Old table cloths
- Old sheets
- Out of season fabric
- Burlap
Any paper or cloth materials that are used for daycare activities can be used to add flair to your bulletin board designs.
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