Create a warm and inviting feeling in your classroom with a cozy Christmas scene. For the background, use any color of butcher paper that you like. Cut out a "fireplace" using red, brown, yellow and orange construction paper. The red will serve as the brick area, so you can actually just make an upside down U-shape out of 11 pieces of red paper placed end to end (four on each side and three in the middle). Draw "bricks" with a black marker. For a "hearth" across the top, use brown construction paper, then create a wood-burning fire with brown (wood) yellow and orange (fire) paper. Next to your fireplace, create a Christmas tree with brown construction paper for the trunk and greenery, then add a tree skirt made of construction paper. (You could draw an outline of a tree directly onto your bulletin board, then let your students put green hand prints on the board.) Let your students make a stocking craft out of construction paper (for the bottom part) and cotton balls (for the fur on the stocking), and hang those in the background of your board titled, "Merry Christmas from Mrs. Smith's Room," suggests the Busy Teacher's Cafe website.
This board is a helpful way to gather your preschoolers' Valentines in one place. Use pink or purple butcher paper for the background and some heart-themed border. Give your students two 12-by-18 inch pieces of red construction paper to fold in half. You'll give them a half-heart shaped template to trace along the folds, or do this ahead of time. The children can cut out the hearts and set them aside, then give them a bear-shaped piece of brown construction paper to decorate. You can staple their hearts together, leaving an opening at the top (by the humps), then staple the bear to the back of the heart pocket in such a way that it looks as though the bear is holding the hearts, suggests the Ms. Ross BEC website. When you have your Valentine's Day party, give each student a gallon-sized freezer bag to collect the Valentines in. Place each student's bag in his heart-shaped pocket on the board and give them the entire thing when it's time to go home.
This board lets all your students have a "hand" in making the board. You'll give each student a piece of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple construction paper and have them trace both of their hand prints on each. They can cut them out or you can help them. Staple their hand prints on the board in this order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, with red being the top color. You may have to place the hand prints closer together as you go down the rainbow, according to the Enchanted Learning website. For the ends of the rainbow, you can cut out two large "pots of gold" using black construction paper and gold tissue paper. Just scrunch it together to form "balls" and staple it on the board. Decorate the background with shamrock cut-outs your students decorate.