One way to decorate your bulletin board with a "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" flavor is to have your students color in coconut trees that you have pre-cut for them. Ask their parents to send in family photographs that you can cut up and use for your bulletin board. If age appropriate, have your preschoolers use child safety scissors to cut out the faces of their family members into small circular shapes. If your students are too young for this, ask their parents to send in pre-cut photographs of family member faces. Explain that you will be using these for coconuts on your family coconut trees. Let students glue these onto the coconuts in their colored trees. Attach the family coconut trees to your bulletin board. Using construction paper letters write " Chicka Chicka Boom Boom...1,2, 3...Please Say My Alphabet With Me" on your bulletin board. Encourage students to read the book and practice saying their alphabet at home with family members.
Use a large construction-paper coconut tree as the center of your bulletin board. Depending on their ability, have each of your students write or trace their names onto a construction-paper coconut. Hang all of the names beginning with the same first letter together on the bulletin board coconut tree. Ask your students to tell you what all the names grouped together have in common.
The illustrations in "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" are all collage images. You can choose to recreate one of the pages from the book for your collage bulletin board or you might want to create your own alphabet-themed collage. You can add the numbers one through 26 into the mix by placing them along with the 26 letters of the alphabet into the collage you make for your bulletin board. This will help you with visual reinforcement as you teach students about the 26 letters of the alphabet.
You can find images of the authors and illustrator of this book online and print them out for use on an authors and illustrator-themed bulletin board. Put interesting facts about each member of the "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" creative team next to their images. Discuss the board with your preschoolers. Facts that may engage smaller children include birthdays, favorite books, family information or favorite pets.