February is a great month for creativity, so it’s no wonder so many teachers want to start early to create ideas for their February bulletin board ideas. In this post, we will take a look at some of the best bulletin board ideas for February that you will be able to take back to your classroom.
Table of Contents
- What Makes the Best February Bulletin Board?
- 17 Cool February Bulletin Board Ideas You Can Use
- February Bulletin Board Ideas FAQS
- Final Thoughts on February Bulletin Boards
What Makes the Best February Bulletin Board?
When considering ideas for your February bulletin board, what should you use to focus on what is important? This all depends mostly on the takeaways that you want your students to get from it. Think about what happens in February? We have Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, and Black History Month, for example. So some of the highlights that you might want to include might be:
- Valentine’s Day- history of the holiday and other information, traditions, etc.
- President’s Day- what is it for?
- Black History Month: the study of African Americans and their heritage, notable Black Americans who contributed to the country’s culture, literature, and other pursuits
- Units that you focus on in February
- School events and news
17 Cool February Bulletin Board Ideas You Can Use
In this post, we will take a look at 17 individual ideas from content creators and bulletin board creators across the country to present you with some of the best bulletin board ideas for February we could find.
Love is in the Air From Little Learning Corner
This inventive February bulletin board was created by a classroom wanting something to commemorate St. Valentine’s Day. it featured “hearts on strings” that were tied to a hot air balloon about to lift off into space. It sets the tone for Valentine’s Day parties and such like or just a good background for February activities.
Our Little Love Bugs From Little Learning Corner
How about a group of friendly lady bugs to crawl all over your February bulletin board? Their wings are made of hearts and the red or pink background finishes off the scene nicely!
Sweethearts Board From Little Learning Corner
This “sweet” Valentine-themed bulletin board idea for February features a big box of delicious hearts with writing on it that we all remember from childhood. You can put the grade level of your students at the top as this teacher has done if you like.
Box of Chocolates (Valentines) From The classroom Creative
For those of you old enough to remember the famous “Forest Gump” movie where Tom Hanks played a mentally-challenged young man who, through sheer wit and will, accomplished a lifetime of achievements while his smarter but hippy-prone girlfriend, Jenny was strung out on drugs most of her life and acheived very little. One of the lines in the film is “Life is like a box of chocolates..you never know which one you’re going to get.” Hanks delivered this line while talking to someone on a park bench as a feather floats down in the wind, bound for some unknown destination. We get the filmmaker’s message: That we are what we are and that it’s not how smart we are or what we are “given” that matters, but what we make of it. This is an awesome theme that you could address with older students by displaying this February bulletin board. For the younger kids, just let them enjoy looking at the candy.
Box of Chocolates (Books) From Crafty Morning
Playing on the same allusion to the Tom Hanks movie, this one applies is to books. It may inspire a conversation as to why someone does not know what book they are purchasing or checking out, because books are something that should be chosen deliberately. This book-related February bulletin board idea should be a big hit for classes using the “literacy lab” method where the whole purpose of reading is to choose a book one prefers rather than randomly select it. Other discussions could ensue about how much of our lives are in our control and how much are not.
Time To Show Our Love From Little Learning Corner
What do you think about this for a February bulletin board? This simple and direct design assists students in learning how to tell time.
Valentine Heart Tree From Ideas From The Forest
This bulletin board features a huge tree that is filled up with tons of hearts in different shades of read and pink to decorate it. Students can color an original heart in various designs or feature their picture on their heart if they choose.
Valentine Mailbox From The Classroom Creative
This idea for February bulletin boards came from the classroom creative and features a large mailbox with a big Valentine’s Day heart on it, with envelopes that are seen all over the bulletin board coming from the mailbox. This is a superb decoration if you are planning Valentine’s Day parties in the month of February. You could use it as a starter to talk about the importance of sending positive messages out to those we care for.
Random Acts of Kindness From Sea Of Knowledge
This bulletin board idea for February can be found on seaofknowledge.org where you can also find a plethora of great tips for educators and homeschool parents. This February bulletin board is appropriate for the month of February but it could also be used any time of the school year. Students pick a card that’s on the board that features several colored envelopes containing random acts of kindness that someone can perform. After a student chooses a card, they are to perform the act of kindness (which can be totally anonymous) and then post a picture of the result. This board takes the idea of kindness a step further and actually asks students to do something to make the world a better place, similar to the theme of the famous movie, “Pay it Forward.” This idea comes to us from a teacher who sponsors a blog and website known as “Sea of Knowledge” and she has over 17 thousand followers. Now that’s making an impact!
My Secret Valentine From Krazy Kindergarten
Writing notes to their hidden valentine was a huge favorite among students!
Do You Want to Build a Snowman? from Little Learning Corner
This February bulletin board idea features Olaf, the snowman from the “Frozen” movie with snowflakes that features pictures of kids in the class with the words from the song the two sisters sang when they were apart. It’s a cute idea, something younger kids can relate to from the movie, and where I live, February is the biggest snow month! If you live in a place that has a drier climate during the month, you can substitute the snowfall with something else.
Envelope with Hearts From California Casualty
This idea is amazingly adorable! You can decorate your door with this pattern on Valentine’s Day. Have each student fill out their own envelopes with one positive comment about the other.
February Global Culture from Preschool Activities
This bulletin board idea for February was posted to illustrate how teachers can integrate world culture from various countries into the February and Valentine theme. It is important to note that individual countries celebrate Valentine’s Day differently and some do not celebrate it at all. But it is still considered a major holiday for most of the civilized nations. President’s Day is a day that is unique to the United States and should be honored and discussed.
If Nothing Ever Changed From Bored Teacher
Boredteachers.com, a blog devoted to spicing things up and making learning more exciting, posted this thoughtful quote, “If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.” This should incite kids to want to learn more about how butterflies change into the form we know them as rather than the caterpillar they start out as. It also inspires kids to consider that change can’t sometimes be a good thing even when they aren’t thrilled with it at the time.
Let Your Love of Reading Grow From HikenDip
This February bulletin board idea features some pretty “heart flowers” that resemble tulips with the titles of favorite books in the writing spaces on the blooms. This is a great way to keep with the February theme while inspiring and motivating students to read more.
Library Book Speaks From Little Learning Corner
Here’s a cool idea for librarians, teachers, Reading and Language Arts specialists, and more. It features a large red book that asks, “Are you a reading book? I’m checking you out.” What a great and funny way to get kids’ attention while keeping the Valentine and February themes.
Love Across the World from Little Learning Corner
This attractive bulletin board is excellent to teach Social Studies, cultural studies units, or any kind of unit where a study of world culture is important. This also helps you communicate that you respect the culture of other countries while still valuing our own.
February Bulletin Board Ideas FAQS
Any kind you want that focuses on what interests and engages your students.
Try assigning various aspects of your bulletin board such as President’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and Black History month for students to research, then bring their results back to class to place on the bulletin board.
To engage students, provide them with a background that is appealing and interesting, and to get kids interested in learning that is time-appropriate within the school year.
Final Thoughts on February Bulletin Boards
We hope you will find something you can use in this listicle of 17 February bulletin board ideas from our research across the web. We come across lots of ideas we share on our blog at Teach Simple, so please return often to see what we’ve come across later! We want to be your one-stop location for teacher materials and tips that will help you make teaching simple but amazing!
