This winter, breathe life into your classroom by creating a vibrant and imaginative environment with winter bulletin boards that also serve as festive door decorations. From enchanting castles to lively K-pop stages and heartwarming kindness villages, these easy-to-use kits infuse color and enthusiasm into your space. Whether your focus is on promoting kindness, setting goals, or fostering friendships, you’ll find everything you need: title banners, borders, engaging student craftivities, and striking elements that will ignite your students’ excitement this winter!
Winter Bulletin Boards
Why Teachers Love Them
The winter months can stretch endlessly, but a dynamic and engaging bulletin board can dramatically alter the atmosphere of a classroom. These kits (or winter door decorations) maintain a vibrant environment while reinforcing vital social-emotional learning themes such as empathy, kindness, and personal growth.
Why Students Love Them
Each kit features interactive components that encourage students to create, write, and reflect. They will take pride in displaying their contributions, whether it’s a “kindness wand,” a microphone for New Year’s goals, or a heart that radiates warmth throughout the room.
How To Use Them
Integrate these bulletin boards into morning routines, social-emotional learning lessons, or goal-setting activities. Each craftivity promotes reflection and sharing, allowing students to practice empathy and celebrate each other’s achievements during the winter season.
Wickedly Bright Winter Bulletin Board
This delightful “Wicked”-themed bulletin board will add a touch of sparkle to your classroom!
What’s Included
- Title lettering: WICKEDly Bright Winter
- Subtitle lettering: Good Deeds. Great Magic.
- Magic Wand craftivity: “Kindness makes our classroom bright when …” (with and without lines)
- Two borders: Two designs
- Decorative elements: Stars, wand handles, broomsticks, princesses, witches, castles (various colors and designs)
How To Set Up
Choose your desired green or pink castle pieces, matching borders, and star accents. Add broom or wand corners to unify the theme, then display the pre-made banner “WICKEDly Bright Winter” along with the subtitle “Good Deeds. Great Magic.”
Student Interactive Component
Students will craft their own kindness wands and complete the prompt “Kindness makes our classroom bright when …” Their finished wands can be displayed in the center castle or scattered like stars around the board.
K-Cool Winter Crew Bulletin Board
This K-pop-inspired bulletin board radiates color, positivity, and student expression.
What’s Included
- Title lettering: K-Cool Winter Crew
- Subtitle lettering: Where Every Star Shines Bright!
- Star craftivity: “I feel like a star when …” (with and without lines)
- Microphone craftivity: “The next big thing I’m working toward is …” (with and without lines)
- Two borders: Two designs
- Decorative elements: Speakers, stars, spotlights, musical notes, snowflakes (various colors and designs)
How To Set Up
Design your own stage scene using the pink, purple, and blue gradient border, accompanied by stars, music notes, and stereo cutouts. Hang the title banner “K-Cool Winter Crew” with the subtitle “Where Every Star Shines Bright!”
Student Interactive Components
- Microphone craftivity: Students articulate “The next big thing I’m working toward is …”—ideal for New Year’s resolutions or goal-setting discussions. To personalize this activity, have students dress as pop stars, take a picture, and attach it to their writing. They’ll appreciate seeing their contributions and photos highlighted!
- Star craftivity: Students complete the prompt “I feel like a star when …”
It’s Cool To Be Kind Bulletin Board
This cozy gingerbread village-themed bulletin board will fill your classroom with warmth and compassion.
What’s Included
- Title lettering: It’s Cool To Be Kind
- Subtitle lettering: Warm up with kindness.
- Heart craftivity: “One way I can warm someone’s heart is …” (with and without lines)
- Kindness quilt craftivity: “Kindness warms my heart when …”
- Kindness Thermometer Tracker activity
- Two borders: Two designs
- Decorative elements: Winter trees, houses, hearts, snowflakes (various colors and designs)
How To Set Up
Arrange the gingerbread village houses and trees along the bottom of your bulletin board, adding a snowy village border at the top or bottom. Include the title “It’s Cool To Be Kind” and the subtitle “Warm up with kindness.” Don’t forget to add your kindness thermometer tracker to monitor your students’ acts of kindness throughout the season!
Student Interactive Components
- Heart craftivity: Students articulate “One way I can warm someone’s heart is …”
- Kindness quilt worksheet: Students will color quilt squares and design their own, completing the sentence “Kindness warms my heart when …”
- Kindness thermometer: Track classroom acts of kindness using small printable hearts.
Get your free winter bulletin board kits!
All of these winter bulletin boards provide a low-prep, high-impact method to introduce reflection and engagement in your classroom. Simply fill out the form on this page to access your winter bulletin board kits and let your students help bring the magic to life—on your walls, doors, or anywhere needing a touch of winter sparkle!
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