With the end of another school term approaching rapidly, it is time to pull together a final end of the year bulletin board to celebrate your class’ achievements. Classmates have learned together and grown in leaps and bounds over the course of this year. Whether those accomplishments were made at school or out of school, they should all be recognized. End these next few weeks with a celebration they’ll remember all summer, with these 31 end-of-year bulletin board ideas.
Table of Contents
- What Makes a Good End of the Year Bulletin Board?
- End Of The Year Bulletin Boards FAQS
- Final Thoughts
What Makes a Good End of the Year Bulletin Board?
A good end-of-year bulletin board will allow students to reflect on the year they have just experienced, showcase their work, and look ahead with a positive frame of mind to what is still to come. Summer-themed boards are always popular and get the students in the mood for their holidays.
A good bulletin board will make your classroom engaging and interactive. It will inspire students and make them excited to learn as well as preparing for the upcoming holidays.
Since you will have a lot to do in the final few weeks of term, make your boards as interactive as possible and get your students to do most of the work!
Bucket Lists From Teach Simple
Kids will love filling this bulletin board with colorful buckets of summer fun. Download our bucket list template from Teach Simple and let them create a bucket list of what they want to do over the summer break.
Surfin’ USA By Little Learning Corner
Get out the craft supplies and start painting, because it’s time to celebrate! Your class will love a fun summer-themed bulletin board to celebrate the end of the year. It’ll be the perfect way to set your classroom up through the summer and beyond.
Pockets Full of Memories By The Classroom Creative
We love this end of year idea. The slips of paper describe their favorite memories from the past year, and can be read by all when they look back at the year. It makes a great bulletin board!
Hang In There By Craft Morning
Looking for a cute way to count down the days until school is out? This end of year bulletin board classroom, with kids hanging upside down, is sure to inspire the kids, while getting them excited about summer.
Look Forward to Summer by Little Learning Corner
This writing prompt bulletin board is a great way to get students thinking about what they’re looking forward to during their summer break. After finishing this easy craft, students can write about their favorite parts of summer. Use this writing prompt activity as a fun end-of-year celebration in your classroom.
End With a Bang From K Teacher Tiff
This fun bulletin board is sure to make your students feel special. What better way to celebrate the end of a great year than with fun, colorful balloons? Your kids will love this end-of-year bulletin board! Fill each balloon with a student’s name and pop a new one each day while celebrating that student.
Bring Back the Books By The Teacher Librarian
It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means: piles of books to return – and sort out! This bulletin board is a cheerful reminder to return borrowed books before the last day arrives.
Adventure Is Out There From True Decor Ideas
For this end-of-year bulletin board, we combined bright colors with a playful design that reflects the excitement of the school year coming to a close. Featuring a balloon display inspired by the movie Up, your students will love contributing to this display. As kids share their new plans for next year, they can also gaze at this cheerful backdrop to remind them of all they’ve got to look forward to in the future.
Future World Changers By Chaylor And Mads
This is an inspirational idea for an end-of-term bulletin board. Create a Future World Changers board by having each student write what they want to be when they grow up and then take their picture against a similar background for a uniform look. Then, create a visual that highlights their ambitions!
All The Feels By What The Teacher Want
Everyone can use a little love and support at the end of the school year. Help your students talk about how they’re feeling by having them choose one emoji that represents how they’re feeling about what they hope to accomplish in the next few weeks. Once they choose their emoji, have them write about it in the second circle stapled beneath.
Just Keep Swimming By Teacher Created Resources
If you love Dory from Finding Nemo, you will love this end-of-year bulletin board. There’s nothing more magical than the last day of school and the sight of kids running out of the classroom with a bounce in their step. This board is designed to inspire those last few weeks of class so that your students can enjoy their summer break!
O-Fish-Ally Summer By Little Learning Corner
Don’t miss this easy end-of-year bulletin board idea. The kids can help you change the count of their fish each day on the mini-blackboard and color in their own fish!
Give Them Wings By Bee In The Bookends
This fun project is perfect for your end-of-year bulletin board or graduation ceremony. It features a giant pair of wings made out of feathers that students can pose on while they’re celebrating the end of the year. Each feather on the wings has a student’s hopes, dreams, and wishes for their future. It might take a little longer than some of the others on this list to make, but it will definitely be worth it!
Hanging Up Memories From Little Learning Corner
Stay On Target From The Teacher’s Corner
The End of Year Target Bulletin Board is a great tool for motivating kids to get their work done and stay on track during the final days of school. This board provides a fun visual reminder that they’re almost there, but there’s still work to be done.
Toad-ally Cool by lessons for Little Ones
This bulletin board is a great way to engage younger students in a conversation about their year and all of the great memories it held. Older kids can write more details about their favorite memory inside the frog’s mouth, turning it into a more substantial writing task.
May The Force Be With You From We Are Teachers
If you are looking for an end of year bulletin board that is functional as well as fun,then this Star Wars-themed bulletin board will be perfect! It has a different math puzzle every day to calculate the number of days left in the school year. Your students will be learning without even realizing!
Sundae School From We Are Teachers
Encourage your class to continue reading throughout the summer, with this ice cream bulletin board. You can have students write a blurb about their favorite book, which will serve as peer recommendations for the rest of the class.
Wriggle Into Summer We Are Teachers
Decorate your classroom this year with an inchworm made out of balloons in your favorite colors. This bulletin board is sure to be a happy sight for students and teachers as they count down the days until the end of the year!
Float Into Summer We Are Teachers
Create a summertime bulletin board with colorful self-portraits of your students floating on their backs. A cute and fun way to celebrate the end of the school year
Flip Into Summer From Guy Laines Playhouse Day Care
Summer has arrived! We love to give students a chance to showcase their artistic talent, and this bulletin board is a great way to do it. Each student paints their foot on paper and then adds a pipe cleaner to create a flip-flop shape.
Bright Stars From California Casualty
This is a great bulletin board for the end of the year. The students will love dressing up and being silly for this one. You’ll have a beautiful end-of-the-year bulletin board that will surely inspire big smiles.
Silhouette Autobiographies From Learning In Wonderland
This end-of-year silhouette bulletin board is a fun way to celebrate the year, showcase what they have learned, and leave room for their next grade. This board can be used in so many ways – school memories, favorite books, hobbies, and what they are looking forward to in the next grade
Anything’s Popsicle From Innovative Teaching Ideas
This is a clever way to make a craft task with your class really easy! Use paint samples and have them cut out ice lolly shapes with their names on them. A great, summery board for the end of the year.
Hands Up for Summer From 3rd Grade Thoughts
This is such a great way to keep your kids busy during the last week of school!! This project is easy and inexpensive and students can take it home to their parents on the last day of school. Have students trace their hands, put their names in the middle, and then decorate them!
Pacman From California Casualty
Pac-Man is a classic among arcade games and this retro-inspired board is perfect for the end-of-the-year bulletin board. Perfect for those that love a good pun (i.e. all teachers!)
Watch the Links Shrink From Mrs. Wheeler’s First Grade
Summer is coming! Watch the chain link shrink down with each passing day, and as it does, ask your class to consider the fun things they will do during your summer vacation. They can share them with the class by writing down activities or quotes on the chain links. As they remove them from the bulletin board, the kids can perform/read whatever is written on it.
Magic Memories From California Casualty
A great bulletin board for Harry Potter fans. If you wish, you can have a silhouette of each pupil on the board. Mischief managed!
Don’t Want to Lego From Mrs. Sarah’s Classroom
Another great pun for your bulletin board, this fun Lego-themed board will work well in kindergarten or lower elementary school.
Photo Collage From Art Of It
Celebrate the end of the year with an end-of-year bulletin board idea that will remind students and parents of all the fun they had throughout the year. Publish photos in celebration of student achievements, class trips and more! The colorful photos are fun and bright, and it’s really easy to set up. Add this to your classroom this year!
Looking Ahead From Kindergarten Lifestyle
Such a creative way to decorate a door with a long window! Your class will love standing behind this board and having their photo taken!
End Of The Year Bulletin Boards FAQS
Here at Teach Simple, we have 1000s of resources, all created by teachers, that you can download as part of your monthly subscription. Check out our Summer Bulletin Board as the perfect end-of-year classroom display!
If you’re looking for a bulletin board for your classroom but don’t have the space for one, there are still plenty of options.
You can place your bulletin board on an outside wall. This is a great option if you want to use the entire space to display student work. You could even create a mural of some kind that students could help with. If you want to make sure other teachers see it, make sure you put it in an area where they’ll be walking by every day!
You can also hang up your bulletin board as a door decoration. Just make sure it’s not too heavy, or else it might come down when someone opens the door!
There are many events throughout the year that you can make bulletin boards for, including Valentine’s, Christmas, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. You can use these boards to get the students excited about the upcoming event and help them prepare. You can also use them to help students learn about different holidays from other cultures and countries.
Final Thoughts
The end of the school year is a hectic time, and you may be tempted to concentrate on other things and forget putting up a bulletin board. But your students will love having a chance to celebrate their achievements, and it will be worth the effort to see their excitement when you count down to the end of term together as a class
