Many college students start thinking about going home for Thanksgiving during the month of November. Decorate your bulletin board with Thanksgiving and harvest images such as pilgrims and Native Americans, cornucopias and pumpkins. You can consider adding real leaves that have changed color and fallen from trees. They should be glued or taped to the bulletin board instead of stapled; staples can cause the leaves to crack and fall apart. If the bulletin board is in a residence hall, ask students to contribute a short note telling something they're thankful for to add to it.
By November, classes are fast approaching the end of the semester, and students are thinking about final projects and papers. Final exams are also just around the corner. Many students are starting to spend extra time studying and working on assignments. Decorating the bulletin board with images of school and studying can help put students in the mindset of projects and final exams. Include information about the college's writing center or tutoring program to help students prepare for the end of the semester.
Fall at college means football. College students put on their college sweatshirts and sit on bleachers on Saturday afternoons to cheer on their team. Decorating a bulletin board with football decorations will get students in the mood for the season and help raise spirit for the college team. Pennants, bumper stickers and pictures from past football games make good decorations to promote the college team. You can cut out felt or construction-paper footballs to add as a border.
November is in the middle of a season of change. The vibrant greens of summer are changing to rich reds, oranges and yellows of autumn. Use these colors in your bulletin board decorations. You can cover the bulletin board with orange or brown butcher paper and use other fall colors in the rest of the decorations. Felt or construction-paper leaves in fall colors make an interesting border around a bulletin board. If you want to include pictures of flowers, use mums. They bloom in the fall, and are often found in orange, red and yellow.