Class Tree

• Assemble a class tree on the bulletin board, using as leaves hands prepared by students. Instruct students to trace and cut out both their hands on a piece of construction paper. Then have students decorate the hands. Adapt this project, depending on the season or time of year. For instance, if approaching Thanksgiving, have students write on each finger something for which they are thankful. If beginning the school year, have students write on each finger a favorite book, movie, hobby, animal or fun fact. Displaying these details will encourage the students to get know each other.
  
  

Profile Collages

• Create personal profile collages to display on the bulletin board. Arrange students in pairs and have each trace the other’s facial profile on a piece of poster board. Then instruct students to cut out the profile traced. Provide the students with magazines and catalogs and instruct them to cut out pictures or images that symbolize or represent aspects of their personality or identifying traits. Have students make a collage on their profile cutout. Hang these projects on the bulletin board and have students guess whose profile belongs to whom.
  
  

Cardboard Frames

• Make cardboard frames to feature an admired person. Give students basic supplies such as cardboard, construction paper, paint, markers, stickers, glue, glitter, ribbon and scissors. Instruct them to cut a frame out of the cardboard (or complete this step yourself, if young students) and decorate the frame. Then advise each student to glue the frame around the picture of a person that they admire or revere. That person may be a family member, historical figure or famous athlete, depending on the assignment.
  
  

Class Calendar

• Make a three-dimensional classroom calendar for the bulletin board by having each student create a door or window. This project is kind of like an advent calendar, as each day will reveal a new secret or special fact, based on a certain lesson or unit of study, if you prefer. Have students draw and decorate a door. Provide them with paint, markers, glitter and other supplies to make their doors elaborate and fancy. Arrange the doors in the shape of a monthly calendar. Attach them to the bulletin board so that the doors can be opened on one side, as if hinged. Behind each door, write a fun fact based on a lesson to be presented that day.