10 Classroom Bulletin Board Ideas That Aren’t Just for Decoration

Stuck staring at that empty bulletin board and wondering what to put on it? 

The best classroom displays aren’t just cute, they’re useful! 

These 10 classroom bulletin board ideas double as learning tools, giving your students a resource they can actually use. 🙌

Plus, two of them are completely free to try!🥳

Amazing Work Coming Soon Display

Every year, you plan on hanging up student work once things get rolling. 

And every year, you make it to October before you even remember that was your plan. 🫠

This Amazing Work Coming Soon display will solve that problem! 

This is the Tropical Vibes Amazing Work Display.

This display works as a place holder until you have some student work to hang up. 🙌

And, it makes the process of displaying that work SO simple. All you need to do is hold up a binder clip with a pushpin, and you’re ready to clip work up to the wall all year long. 

Photo credit @krusesclass on Instagram. 

Or, take a page out of Ms. Kruse’s book and hang a clipboard for each student. 

No matter what style you choose for your Amazing Work display, your students will LOVE seeing their finest work up on the walls. 🥰

Calendar Display

Is a classroom really complete without a calendar display? 

This is the Tropical Vibes calendar. 

📅 A calendar makes a GREAT stand-alone display. 

It adds color and doubles as a great reference or teaching point. 

This is the Retro Rodeo Calendar. 

You can easily help students know how many days are left until the long-awaited field trip or 3-day weekend. 😉

Photo Credits @molding_little_minds for the Simply Neutral calendar on the left & @miss.collins.class for the Modern Calm Colors calendar on the right. 

The calendar also works great as one of many resources included on a large bulletin board or whiteboard. 

Put it up next to your daily schedule cards to keep all of your scheduling resources in one spot. 

👉 Add your favorite calendar to your classroom today. 

Learning Targets Wall

There is no reason why your learning targets have to be a boring part of your classroom. 

This is the Learning Targets display from the Retro Rodeo bundle. 

🎯 Highlight your learning targets with their own bulletin board display. 

Either laminate the subject cards and write on them with Expo markers, or print out learning objectives for each new topic or unit. 

This is a Learning Targets display created from the Tropical Vibes bundle editable posters. 

Or, you can get creative with how your display looks by combining different parts of bundles together! 

This teacher made a special heading using the same colors from the pack and her favorite font, and then she used the blank slide templates to create her subject cards! 🤩

RACES Writing Display 

Encouraging kids to write more than 2 words can be a battle. 😂

Use the RACES writing strategy with this display to make it easier! 

This is the RACES display from the Hello, Pastel bundle. 

Teaching your students this strategy and having this resource on display will help them add more detail to their answers. 📝

This RACES display is from the Retro Rodeo bundle. 

Plus, the sentence starters are great things students can use during whole-group reading lessons. The more often your students say these phrases out loud, the more often they will translate into their writing. 

👉 Select your favorite RACES display for your perfect classroom bulletin board idea. 

Skip Counting Display FREEBIE

Learning your multiplication facts is hard. 

Create a display with these skip counting numbers to give your students a way to check their math facts. 

Students can use these numbers to easily figure out multiplication for the numbers 1 – 12. 🤯

👉 Snag these Modern Calm Colors Skip Counting numbers for FREE here! 

Growth Mindset Display

Remind your students that they can learn new things with this classroom bulletin board idea. 

This is the Growth Mindset display from the Tropical Vibes theme. 

📖 Pair this display with some great read-alouds to help your students see what a growth mindset looks like in action! 

This is the Growth Mindset display from the Rodeo Retro bundle. 

Make this display even more personal by encouraging your students to think up their own “Instead Of” and “Try Thinking” phrases! 

👉 Browse through the Growth Mindset displays in all of my classroom themes here. 

Math Bulletin Board

No matter what grade level you are teaching, your math lessons are always filled with vocabulary and concepts you want your students to master. 

Provide them with a space filled with resources as they learn these skills. 

This classroom bulletin board idea is filled with resources from the Tropical Vibes bundle. 

🌟 Whether you are filling your math space with a 120 chart, place value posters, math keyword posters, skip counting numbers, or a way to track the number of days spent in school, the options for this display are endless. 

Check out how two other teachers created a math bulletin board display for their classes. 

Photo Credit: @pertusatico on Instagram.

This teacher used a large bulletin board on one of the walls of her classroom and made it the spot for all of her math resources. 

Photo Credit: @molding_little_minds on Instagram. 

This teacher has a more compact spot for her math resources. I love how she has the number line running across the top of this bulletin board. 😍

Both teachers used the Simply Neutral bundle to create their math hubs. 

Sound Wall

If you are a primary teacher, a great classroom bulletin board idea is setting aside space for a sound wall. 

Photo Credit: @ms.krueger on Instagram. 

Ms. Krueger used a large bulletin board over her classroom library as the space for her Modern Calm Colors sound wall. 🥰

This gives students a space to remember the sounds they have learned and what letters go with them! 

🌟 I have a couple of different styles of sound walls in my TPT store to choose from. 

Vocabulary Display

A classroom bulletin board idea I came across recently was creating a spot for vocabulary words! 

This is a great idea for any classroom! 

Photo Credit: @han__uhh 

This teacher used the editable banners in the Happy Hues bundle to create a heading for her vocabulary wall. 

Then, she used a pocket chart to hold the vocabulary cards her students are focusing on. 🙌

CUBES Posters FREEBIE

Another great classroom bulletin board idea is a strategy that helps students solve math word problems. 

The CUBES strategy gives students a set of steps to work through to make sure they are taking their time to solve word problems. 

Posting the steps helps students remember what comes next as they master this skill. 🤩

👉 Grab this Simply Neutral bulletin board idea for FREE here! 

The bulletin boards in your classroom don’t have to be either empty or only be cute, seasonal displays, while those are fun! 😉

Use this list of classroom bulletin board ideas to create stunning displays that your students reference every day.