-Bulletin Board Fun-

I am beyond excited to join Angie from Mrs. Olson's Lucky Little Learners and Ashley from Schroeder Shenanigans for their monthly #2getherwearebetter link-up.

This month's linky party is focusing on Bulletin Boards. I have just recently switched school districts, so I've spent much of my time completely focused on moving my classroom in my little Scion TC. However, I was at least able to get my bulletin boards half-way put up! I say half-way because they may have a background and border, but that is about as far as I got this week. In my new classroom, I have two bulletin boards as opposed to previously only having one. My materials I used on both of my boards are fabric. Last year was my first year using any kind of fabric on bulletin boards and I decided to go with that again this year. Call me crazy, but the first thing I did before putting my fabric on the board was give it a good ironing. (Okay, in this case my little sister gave the fabric a good ironing because she was helping that day)! I used this same pink material last year and it bothered me the whole year that there was a crease right down the middle, so I made sure to fix that first thing for this upcoming year.

After getting my fabric crease-free, I stapled them to my board the best I could. Sometimes it was a little hard to work with in the way of getting the fabric completely flat and smooth with no bubbling.

Once I had the fabric completely covering my board, border was up next. I ran into a problem with my first board...

NOT enough border!!! This board is one I put up last year and when I took it down I remember throwing away a few of the small pieces, which is why I couldn't find them in any of my boxes. Then I thought about needing to put my pom poms up too. It was an easy fix to just put them over a corner space with no border, although I wish I had thought of that before putting all of the border completely up first!

My second bulletin board in my room is longer, so I decided to divide it into two sections. I will be honest and say I haven't completely decided if I like the owls as a background fabric. Although the more that I look at the picture, the more that I like it. However, I think placing anything on it may be a challenge. I'm going to have to choose wisely when it comes to deciding what to put on the board because the owls can be distracting. I was thinking of framing some things to put on this board, but first I must decide what will go on the board! Student work? Technology stuff? A book quote board? The possibilities are endless! Sometimes decisions are hard. I'm excited to peruse other bulletin boards for inspiration because #2getherwearebetter!