Prepare your bulletin board using blue and green construction paper, train-themed borders and precut letters. Use your stapler to attach the blue construction paper on the top part of the bulletin board and the green on the bottom to give the look of sky and ground. Staple a train-themed border around the bulletin board. Center the letters for your title (e.g., "All About Trains") at the top center of the bulletin board with your stapler.
Plan and carry out art projects about trains with your students. Kindergarten through second-grade students can use crayons, markers, watercolors and scissors to make and cut out their own special train for the bulletin board. Prekindergarten students can use crayons and glue as well as white construction paper cut in rectangular shapes and black construction paper circles to color and assemble their trains. Staple the students' trains around the bulletin board.
Take your students on a field trip to a train museum or a train hobby shop to learn about trains. Your students can see trains or models up close and ask the experts questions. They can also take individual and group photos during their train field trip. Review the photos with your students in class (you can even use your computer to make a slide show). Have the students write captions for their field trip photos describing what they learned. Attach the field trip photos and captions to the train bulletin board using two-sided tape.
Your students can use crayons, pencils and journals or printable fill-in picture books to write about trains. Kindergarten through second-grade students can write about trains in their journals and draw illustrations. Prekindergarten children can copy sentences or vocabulary words and color pictures Use stick pens to place the students' journals or fill-in books around the outside of the bulletin board. Your train bulletin board will be a display of photos, writing projects and art projects that your students and class visitors can learn from and enjoy.