Place fresh flowers and green plants on your desk and in the windows of your classroom. You can also hang baskets from the ceiling filled with fresh flowers and plants. If you prefer, you can use artificial flowers so you won't have to continually replace the real flowers. You can also turn this into an art project for your students by allowing them to paint and decorate the flower pots. Students can decorate one pot to stay in the classroom and another to take home as a Mother's Day gift.
Hang artwork on the walls of your classroom that depict springtime scenery or patriotic scenery to commemorate Memorial Day. You can decorate your walls with colorful paper flowers and rainbows as well as American flags and pictures of soldiers. Mother's Day also falls in the month of May, so ask your students to write essays about their mother to hang on the walls. They can also write essays about what they like to do in the spring and what Memorial Day means to them.
Create a bulletin board that has a spring theme or a patriotic theme. You can decorate it in bright spring colors such as pink, blue, green and yellow. You can also include pictures of flowers and rainbows. Use red, white and blue to decorate a bulletin board to commemorate Memorial Day and fill it with pictures of American flags and soldiers. Make a large calendar for the month of May and place it on the board. Be sure to mark the Memorial Day Holiday on it and well as Cinco de Mayo and Mother's Day.
Hang decorations from the ceiling using colorful string and tape or push-pins. You can make cardboard cutouts of flags, flowers, rainbows and even animals such as bunnies and chicks. You can even write each student's name on a decoration and hang it above their desk.