Brighten Your Classroom with These 21 Flower Bulletin Board Ideas

Thinking about creating a flower bulletin board or need flower bulletin board ideas to put it all together? We can help with these ideas. We believe that every month is the month for flowers if you choose to use them to spread some joy to your class and help set the tone for your instructional environment. 

Table of Contents

• What makes a great flower bulletin board?
• 21 Flower Bulletin Board Ideas to Make Students Bloom This Year
• Flower Bulletin Board FAQS

What makes a great flower bulletin board?

First, let’s think about what makes a great bulletin board with a flower theme. We know the obvious ones like choosing a flower like you might see in the month you are working on. For example, you might choose mums in September or  November and sunflowers in August. But there are many flowers that bloom in the winter such as the Amyrillis and the Pansy, for example. There are also plenty of flowers that bloom year-round.

Roses can be seen in the late Autumn months, even though most people think of them as a summer or spring bloom.

Here are a few main points to remember when building or planning bulletin boards that feature flowers:

• Make the flower match the month when possible (not required though)
• Choose colors of flowers that coordinate with your flower bulletin board idea
• Consider posting titles or book covers of books with flower names such as Where the Red Fern Grows, Where the Lilies Bloom, etc.
• Use of poetry and nature poems
• Focus on events around school or the community

21 Flower Bulletin Board Ideas to Make Students Bloom This Year

1. Bloom Where You Are Planted From Kids And Craft

This beautiful 3D flower bulletin board features some beautiful 3-dimensional flowers with stems in various colors and types. Some of the types of flowers included are:

• Roses
• Sunflowers
• Daisies
• Peonies
• Begonias

2. Bee Amazing From Art Of It

Here is a lovely flower bulletin board with a basket of flowers that also features bees with the words, “Bee Amazing.” This bulletin board helps students think about not only the importance of flowers but also the importance of bees pollinating other flowers. It even inspired us to think of another possible bulletin board, “Without the bees, the flowers perish.”

3. Learn. Grow. Blossom. From Rise Over Run Teacher

Here is a flower bulletin board featuring big, beautiful blossoms that fill the board with color. This is best displayed with a black background as the contrast is really beautiful. The credo at the top is inspiring, but you can always change it if you want to meet your needs. 

4. Annual Event Background From Ambica Art & Craft

What’s better than a backdrop of flowers to celebrate an annual event? In this example, from Ambica Arts & Crafts, you learn how to use a flower background to mark a special day or special event. Nothing draws attention to a display better than flowers. Try this idea to highlight whatever your class or your school is celebrating.

5. Teacher Appreciation Week From Children’s Learning Activities

Don’t be afraid to brag on yourself! The use of flowers to celebrate a special day like Teacher Appreciation Day or Week is fine. If you are modest, have your students work on this board. instead. 

6. Spring Is In The Air From Easy Peasy And Fun

Spring is the best time to use flower backgrounds for your class flower bulletin board. Real flowers are blooming everywhere you look and they come to the foreground in the minds of everyone during this time. Students love 3D flowers that stand out from the 2-dimensional board so it’s a good idea to include them whenever you can. Many times, teachers forget how bulletin boards and other props can be a great learning aid during a literary study. If you are reading a book that includes a mention of flowers such as “Flowers for Algernon,” why not include a small vase of flowers for your desk or table in the classroom, too? 

7. Border Design (For Flower Bulletin Boards) From Arty Krafty

The Arty Krafty Channel illustrates how to create a stunning floral border in this quick video tutorial. This can come in handy for all of those flower bulletin board ideas, whether the flowers are the focus of the board or not. 

8. Back To School, Ready, And Grow! From School Bulletin Board

This lovely flower-themed bulletin board focuses on the beauty of flowers and uses it as a metaphor for academic and personal growth. 

9. Add A Little Sunshine From Art Of It

This sunflower bulletin board is a great way to promote not only pretty flowers but the power they have to make someone smile. When someone knows someone cares about them, they are more likely to be happy and to feel good about the world, even if they feel bad or have a sad countenance. So flowers are one way you can make someone feel better and to touch another life. 

10. How To Make Flowers For Your Bulletin Board From Sweet Sensations Crafts And Activities

If you’re a new teacher or someone just starting out with bulletin board creation, you may want a little extra help with the finer details. This link will show you how to create flowers for your bulletin board that will make you look like you spent days on it!

11. Beautiful Minds Grow Here From Art Of It

This flower and plant bulletin board focuses on the academic process and how beautiful ideas can emerge from personal and collective growth of the classroom body. Featuring different types of common houseplants gets the point across nicely that we are all individuals, but we all contribute to the collective achievements of the group. 

12. Spread Your Wings From Rise Over Run Teacher

This stunning flower and butterfly bulletin board features a large black butterfly with wings outstretched, accompanied by the words, “Spread Your Wings and See How Far You Fly.” It is so beautiful that students (and others) are destined to stop and view it as they go by. This bulletin board is unique and uses the comparison of a butterfly testing its wings to see what they can do. This comparison is similar to a young person trying different things to see what they can accomplish. What better way is there to inspire young minds?

13. What Looks Like Luck From Rise Over Run Teacher

This March-related bulletin board can also be used as a flower bulletin board if you choose and it features the thought that “luck” is what happens when someone applies themself, works hard everyday, and never gives up. This is what you might call a philosophical bulletin board because of the questions it asks subtly about what luck really is. This could be a powerful tool to inspire young minds who might otherwise give up if things don’t go their way. 

14. Heroes Work Here From Rise Over Run Teacher

The idea of heroes could be a lesson of itself. What would the world be like if we didn’t have heroes? Your class will be amazed at the boldness but simplicity of this flower bulletin board that is a standalone exclamation about the potential each student has to make a difference in the world. It is also a bulletin board that could inspire deep discussions on what a hero is and why it is important to risk it all for an important cause or person. Please note that, while stars are used in this example of the heroes bulletin board, it can easily be surrounded by flowers to focus on the floral theme.

15. What Will You Grow Today? From Rise Over Run Teacher

Here is a great idea that uses cactus plants and succulents in pots to emphasize a point. Notice the words on the plant pots include things like Precision, Fluency, Perseverance, Reasoning Skills, and Patience, to name a few. This is a symbolic flower or plant bulletin board with an important allusion to life and character-building skills that they are not soon to forget!

16. Plant Posters With Puns From Rise Over Run Teacher

Kids love puns or plays on words. We see these in bulletin boards a lot. Why not spruce up your bulletin board with a collection of potted plant posters all discussing a particular play on words about plants. Some examples are “Iris (I wish) I could do Math all day,” “Math makes me sharp,” (words from a cactus), and “We are so Frond (fond) of Math.” This is a fun way to embellish a Math classroom (or any other space) with positive statements about your teaching subject that will also get a laugh from the class. 

17. Math Helps Us Bloom! From Rise Over Run Teacher

Take a look at this geometric flower bulletin board with cleverly inserted geometric shapes in the flower part of the plant. This poster gives a tribute to geometry, while reminding Math students about the most important geometric shapes and brightening up your classroom with a lovely flower. 

18. The Future’s So Bright… From Rise Over Run Teacher

There was a saying in the 1980s from a movie: “The future’s so bright, we gotta wear shades.” This bulletin board or door poster takes that viewpoint and adds lots of pairs of sunglasses from all students in the classroom, listing all of the various jobs math students can do when they graduate. This would be a great addition to a Math room where students often are not sure what they might do with a math career. We might add a link to a great movie, as well that features a young black woman during the early days of the space program named Katherine Johnson who single-handedly outdid every white man at NASA with her math abilities and reinvented a way to calculate the exact point in space the astronauts needed to safely land on the moon. 

19. Wall Of Roses From HikenDip

This rose-inspired “wall” of flowers bulletin board talks about how each child is different, but together all children make a beautiful garden. This is a nice thought and may help kids to feel valued, no matter what their ability level. The roses are quite well-done and add beauty and color to any flower bulletin board.

20. Mixed Flower Garden

This amazing floral bulletin board was created at a school for their Spanish teacher. Each flower is different from the others, emphasizing the point that every child is important. 

21. Spring Is In the Air From Guide Patterns

This line is common, but what’s not so common is the depth of color and beauty of this flower bulletin board. Check out this variety of well-known flowers (they look very real) and see how you can include this idea in your room. 

Flower Bulletin Board FAQS