Welcome to our World Bulletin Board

Supplies Used: Butcher Paper, Crayons, Markers, Paint, Scissors, Tape

The teacher will die-cut the materials for student use prior to the lesson.

1. Trace around the eight inch letters to spell your message on a large sheet of butcher paper to fit your bulletin board. Trace over the pencil lines with a fat black marker (Figure A).
2. Turn the banner over and divide it into segments with a yard stick and a pencil. Number the back side of each segment (Figure B).
3. Create a cheat sheet that will make it easy to remember the order of the pages when re-assembling the segments (Figure C).
4. Cut the banner along the pencil lines of the banner, allowing one for each student in your class. Distribute one section to each student and instruct them to color their paper using fun patterns and shapes. Remove the black and grey crayon from each box so as not to compete with the black outline of the message (Figure D).
5. When the hour is up and all segments are colored, have your students look at the back of their sheet and bring it up to the board when you call their number. As each section is stapled to the board, the kids will start calling out possible messages.
6. If you have more room under the banner, add a strip of black paper, dotted with white circles. I also added yellow and gold stripes on the bottom of the board and decorated the striped section with student work, labeled with their photo, placed behind a picture frame (Figure E).
7. Celebrate your completed bulletin board with the class (see Main Photo).

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  Figure A
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  Figure B
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  Figure C
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  Figure D
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  Figure E