Welcome Back to S'more Learning Bulletin Board Kit, Door…

About this resource

What's inside this resource

Welcome back your students with this fun, camping-inspired bulletin board or door decor! Makes a great back to school board or even use for New Year's. You can simply print, cut, and hang...OR use a professional print shop and have this enlarged to SAVE YOU TIME! You'll receive everything you need to complete this board for your classroom! This works with a poster maker machine too!

use for an online learning backdrop or homeschool

can be displayed in any nook in your classroom or hall

great back to school or year round board

can be used as a New Year's board too

check the PDF file to find everything you need to complete this set

What's included

A five-page "Directions to Make Your Engineer Prints" guide covering account setup, finding Blueprints or engineered prints, colour versus black and white, uploading the file, Media size, Fit Content to Paper, Portrait orientation and checkout
Flat images of the finished display at 8x10, 18x24, 24x36 and 36x48
A slide deck opening with "Editing Images - Add textboxes/text to the images below with students' names, encouraging sayings, quick writing prompts, and more. You can also enlarge/shrink images to your liking!"
Twenty-four individual letter files in PNG form
A letters PDF whose pages are footered by the word each belongs to - welcome, back, to, smore, learning
A "Directions - helpful tips/tricks" page carrying eight numbered mounting tips
A page reading "bulletin board, door decoration or poster"
A checkered background graphic and a marshmallow stick graphic supplied as separate images
Decorative element pages closing the letters PDF, plus a thank-you page with licensing terms

Resource types: Posters, Classroom Decor

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Teaching tips

Measure the door and cut the background paper before anything else - tip 1 warns that the finished layout otherwise overlaps the frame, and tip 2 asks you to place the handle, locks and hinges first
Tape before committing: masking tape holds letters loosely so they can be shuffled, and painters tape run across a whole word locks the spacing while glue or staples go on the back
Skip glue sticks; tip 3 says they do not adhere well and points to heavy duty masking tape, scotch tape or Elmer's, with the caveat that scotch tape will mark the background paper when it comes down
Regular printer or copy paper is recommended over cardstock because it sticks better, and the individual letter PNGs let a cutting machine do the trimming instead of scissors
Cost out the enlargement route in advance: the guide puts a print at roughly five to eight dollars and around $11.00 at 36x48, and warns that laminating a sheet that size can end up dearer than the print itself

Skills covered

Planning a door display around real obstacles - the directions page has the teacher measure the door, cut background paper to fit, and map the handle, locks and hinges before a single letter is placed.
Laying out lettering before it is fixed down - masking tape holds pieces loosely and painters tape run across a word keeps the alignment, so spacing is settled before glue or staples go on.
Ordering an enlarged print - the five-page guide walks a teacher through account setup, the Blueprints section, upload, Media size, Fit Content to Paper and switching orientation to Portrait before checkout.
Matching materials to the surface - the tips compare copy paper with cardstock, rule out glue sticks, and suggest painting the door black so the colours pop and background paper is no longer needed.
Personalising the display - the slide deck's own instruction page invites text boxes carrying students' names, encouraging sayings or quick writing prompts, and allows the images to be enlarged or shrunk.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How does the same design scale from a door to a whole bulletin board?

Two routes are supplied. Flat images of the finished design come at 8x10, 18x24, 24x36 and 36x48 for a print shop, and the five-page guide walks through ordering one of those as an engineered print. Alternatively the cut-apart letters build the phrase by hand at whatever size the door or board needs - the guide notes that a 36x48 print covered one entire bulletin board.

What actually holds the letters to the background paper?

The tips page is blunt about this: glue sticks do not adhere well. It recommends heavy duty masking tape or scotch tape, notes Elmer's glue works fine, and warns that scotch tape will damage the background paper. Painters tape is used only temporarily, to align a whole word before the permanent fixing goes on.

Can the display carry students' names?

Yes. One component is a slide deck whose opening page invites text boxes to be added over the images with students' names, encouraging sayings or quick writing prompts, and the same page says the images can be enlarged or shrunk to taste.