Easter is a special time of year, full of fun with bunnies and treasure with eggs. It has special spiritual significance and marks the change of seasons. You can engage your students at Easter with a bulletin board that is all about them and the season.
In this post, I have suggested what you should look for in a good Easter bulletin board. I have also given you 21 ideas that will help you create your own fun and effective board.
Table of Contents
- Ideas about what makes a good Easter bulletin board
- Easter Resources from Teach Simple
- Easter Bulletin Board Ideas
- Final thoughts
Ideas about what makes a good Easter bulletin board
Like all good bulletin boards on any theme, an Easter bulletin board must use color, elements of writing, visual appeal and interaction.
The Easter bulletin board must be colorful and attractive. This doesn’t necessarily mean there have to be many colors on the board. It does mean what colors are used should be bright. They should also be varied.
A good Easter bulletin board must communicate something to the reader. This means using big enough fonts that can be read easily.
The heading (subject or theme) of the board must be made clear. Pick a word, phrase or even sentence stating what the board is showing us, or what it is hoping to achieve.
It is important that an Easter bulletin board features images that represent Easter. This means eggs, bunnies and chicks. Boards could also reference the Christian significance of the Easter story and feature a cross.
Easter Resources from Teach Simple
These ideas for Easter bulletin boards are available from TeachSimple.
- Poppin’ & Hoppin’ Into Spring Bulletin Board By Creativity Overload
Don’t you just love the title of this resource? Poppin’ & Hoppin’ into Spring has a certain ring to it. There are a few different options for your bulletin board here. The resource also includes letters, eggs and bunnies you can print and cut out. This means you can work with your students to create a few different bulletin boards.
- April/Easter Door Kit: I Teach the Sweetest Peeps By The Simplistic Teacher
This inspiration for a bulletin board uses the idea of the candy marshmallow peeps, which the students will respond to. The colors are bright, especially against the black background. You could make this a really fun bulletin board by allowing the students to bring a marshmallow candy to school to match with one on the board.
- Happy Easter Egg Number Order 0-30 Activity By Have Fun Teaching
The cover page of this Happy Easter Egg Number Order activity pack would make a great addition to your bulletin board. The bunny is cute and attracts the students. You could echo the bulletin board on a worksheet, which the students can color in.
- Easter Easy Alphabetical Order Activity By Have Fun Teaching
This is the cover of an activity for grades 1 & 2 on Easter abc Order. It gives some great ideas for an Easter bulletin board. You could give a blank Easter egg template to each student, which they must color in. The eggs can be added to the bulletin board.
- Easter Word Search Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching
I have the picture in my head of using something like this Easter Fun Word Search on a bulletin board. Imagine if the students were encouraged to find a word when they walked past, or as an activity during class. It would be a fun, interactive bulletin board display.
- Easter Hunt ABC Order Worksheet By Have Fun Teaching
This Easter ABC Order sheet could also make an interesting and fun bulletin board. Again, use it as the basis of an interactive lesson. You can add to it, depending on the number of students in your class. Another feature could be to give the students images of each of the objects, which they can color in. These could then be added to the bulletin board.
Easter Bulletin Board Ideas
Then, there are ideas for Easter bulletin boards that you will find from other sources.
- Hopping Into April From SupplyMe
This bulletin board welcomes students to be Hopping into April. It is a great way to bring an Easter theme and the monthly calendar together. The students could have fun creating the bunnies and sticking them to the board. The colors of the board are varied and catch the eye. What works well is to have the calendar corner in a contrasting color, which gives it a different focus.
- Egg-Cited This Spring From Hikendip
This bulletin board indicates that the students can be Egg-cited this Spring. The features give the board a 3D dimension. In this example, the eggs have been decorated with torn bits of colored paper. This picks up the 3D effect of the board. You could get the students to paint or to color the eggs, depending on the grade and your students’ abilities. The touch of adding the bunnies’ heads to the top of the bulletin board creates a contrast and reminds us that we are heading to Easter.
- Softboard For Easter From Hikendip
Getting the kids involved in creating bulletin boards is a must. This busy, cute Easter bulletin board has eggs, bunnies and butterflies to captivate the kids. What I like is that the three elements are made and decorated in completely different ways, so each one could be a particular creative project. This will make the bulletin board a little like the resource that keeps on giving.
- God’s Peeps Are Eggstra Special By St. Roch
There is a lot going on on this bulletin board that tells us God’s peeps are eggstra special. It manages to bring the secular and spiritual together. There are also some puns in the title, for the older ‘readers’ to appreciate. The eggs and chicks are just the cutest and a really wonderful way to get the kids involved from beginning to end.
- Paper Plate Easter Chicks From Making Learning Fun
This is a wonderfully entertaining, creative concept for a paper plate Easter bulletin board that brings the classroom to life and provides a stimulating learning environment for students.
- Hatching The Egg From Hikendip
I love this idea for an Easter bulletin board based around individual figures. It is perfect for any grade. Divide your bulletin boards/s into enough squares for the number of students in your class. Give them each the templates for the halves of the egg and then let them free! The figures themselves can also be from templates, or from your students’ imaginations.
- Our Class Is SpEGGtacular From SupplyMe
This board tells students that Our Class is SpEGGtacular! The bunny is the center of attraction, with the eggs surrounding him. The background pink makes this a cheerful picture and contrasts quite nicely with the eggs. You can get each of your students to color an egg and then stick them to the board.
- Easter Marshmallow Peeps By SupplyMe
This anchor chart is based on the popular Easter marshmallow peeps found in candy stores, especially around Easter. It is a simple, cute representation of bunnies. You could bring the students into the chart a bit more by putting each one’s name on a bunny.
- Hoppy Spring From Hikendip
This is another idea for an activity that led to the creation of a bulletin board. This time, it’s about Hoppy Spring. Of course, you can change the heading to something about Easter. I suggest that this may be for younger grades. Give each student a blank template of the bunny that they can decorate as they wish.
- Some Bunny Loves You From SupplyMe
This is a feel good bulletin board that tells the students Some Bunny Loves You. There is also a pun in the title, for older ‘kids’. The combination of spring colors and Easter eggs makes the ground colorful, just like a field of flowers. You can turn this into a truly interactive bulletin board, with the students filling their names in on the eggs.
- 24 Carrot Smiles From SupplyMe
This bulletin board encourages the students to be cheerful, with the 24 Carrot Smiles. The colors are bright and the contrast between the bunnies and the rest of the board emphasizes the fun. There is a cute pun for the older ‘kids’. Each of your students can get involved, with their names on the carrots. They could also name the bunnies, which they will color in.
- Jesus Is The Most Important Thing About Easter From SupplyMe
This is a pretty bulletin board with a Christian theme: Jesus is the Most Important Thing About Easter. The crucifix is surrounded by butterflies, caterpillars, and flowers, giving the display a 3D appearance.
- Jesus Loves Us Egg-Straordinarily From Creative Shapes Etc.
This bulletin board also has a specifically Christian tone, by telling us that Jesus loves us egg-straordinarily. The colors are also quite eye-catching. You can go for different colors, or even decorations on the eggs.
- Chick From Preschool Activities
This is one of the simplest and cutest bulletin board ideas I’ve found. I love the colors and the way the chick literally pops out at us. Imagine the fun your kids would have creating this image. It is something they could do in groups in class.
- Carrots For The Easter Bunny From Today’s Creative Ideas
This Carrots for the Easter Bunny idea could cover your door, or a bulletin board. It is bright, fun and gives plenty of space and opportunity for the students to be involved and to express themselves. You can take it further than having each student color a carrot. Why not give them each a letter as well? Or an egg to color. They can really get creative and turn it into a 3D collage.
Final thoughts
There are so many Easter bulletin board ideas out there that you may have trouble pinning down one idea. Try to look for one that will suit your class. This may be an intricate board, with lots of scope for games and even competition. It may mean a simple, elegant bulletin board that students can create on their own. Whichever style of board you choose, make sure that it fits the mood and feeling of the Easter season.
