A rainforest is a lush, green environment filled with plants and animals. Choosing a green background for your bulletin board reflects the natural color of the rainforest. If you can create a background that features green leaves of different shapes, use that to represent the rainforest. A blue border can help symbolize the sky and water that are also a part of the rainforest atmosphere. A green border of another shade can also work well because the rainforest is full of many shades of green.
Rainforests are only found in certain areas of the world where the climate is warm and wet throughout much of the year. This specific climate lends itself to a wide array of plants that cannot be found in any other place. Use these different plants, such as ferns, decidious trees, vines and tropical flowers, as accent pieces on your bulletin board. For an informational bulletin board, write facts about each plant on or near the picture of the plant. To incorporate your class into the bulletin board, list your class jobs on the various plants and place the name of the student who is responsible for the job onto the plant each week.
The animals that live in the rainforest are often specific to the area, just like the plants. Cut out pictures of the various animals found in the rainforest, such as parrots, monkeys, snakes and lizards. Allow the children to color in these animals and then use them to decorate your rainforest. If you want to use your bulletin board to introduce your students, write the name of each student on a parrot or monkey and attach them to your bulletin board trees.
Water plays an essential part in any rainforest. As additional decoration to your bulletin board rainforest, create a waterfall using blue construction paper for the background and then covering the blue paper with clear plastic wrap, bunched into ripples to create a waterfall effect. End the waterfall in a pool created the same way. You may also want to cut out blue raindrops to represent the presence of rain in the rainforest. The blue raindrops also make an ideal medium on which to place students' names or rainforest facts.
If you choose to create a rainforest bulletin board to enhance a unit of your class, fill the board with information about rainforests. Use posters or pictures of the various animals and plants found in the rainforest along with descriptions. Include interesting facts for the students, such as the average rainfall in a year, the number of different plant and animal species found there and the total area of the world covered by rainforests. To help your students learn, you can create interactive flaps on your bulletin board. The outside of the flap should list a question about rainforests. Students answer the question and then lift the flap to see if they were right.