Bulletin Boards, Classroom Doors and Part 3

Welcome back to my ongoing little mini-series of classroom doors and bulletin boards with the occasional showcase and mural tossed in. These beauties are from my day up in Taylor, Michigan. 

How brilliant is this 'bucket-filling' concept for Teacher Appreciation Week? The big bucket is on the door into their teacher's lounge. Here's a close-up of a few of the drops filling the bucket. Words of thanks. Words of appreciation. Words of gratitude. LUV LUV LUV LUV LUV it!!

The trick of making an Author-Illustrator school visit AND getting material for such a blog post is to have three things: a few minutes in between program presentation-performances, sufficient memory card space and enough battery power for one's camera!!! Every now and then the stars align and VOILA!

Take a look over my shoulder as I dash down the halls at Blair Moody Elementary. Get a gander at this beauty! In graphic design it's always 'simplicity' that wins in my book. I'd nominate this one for an award! Classroom Door Decoration Award: CDDA finalist for sure!! AWESOME!!

Now take a look at the walls around this gloriously decorated door. It's a whole parade of personalized Lorax characters marching about between truffula trees! Talk about bringing a book to life! You gotta know as an author-illustrator, seeing this sort of attention to detail for any author's work is a thrill!! Yeah teachers! Yeah school!!! Shaking my pompoms for this one folks!!

Further down the hallway this delight caught my eye!!

How important is this next one? It's the first 'building-wide' bulletin board I've ever noticed that is designed to celebrate the writing within the whole building!!! KUDOS! Five stars!! There are submissions displayed from the littles all way through to the bigs! LUV it!!

Fifth Grade Welcome

Camp Cow-a-bunda Classroom Door 

Who doesn't like a 'monkey' themed classroom? 

Old School: Welcome Door 

Teacher Appreciation 

BEAR: Be Excited About Reading

Dive into a Good Book 

Self Portraits + Photos on Classroom Door 

Third Grade Thoughts on Classroom Door (with Photos) 

Garfield and hid Cool Classroom Door 

Classroom Door: Bee a Reader!

Classroom Door with Chicka Chica Boom-boom/Monkey Theme

Classroom Door with Turkey Pilgrims 

Hollywood Theme for Classroom Door Decoration

Jungle Exploration on Classroom Door 

Use Your Power Showcase for Healthy Living

Individually Designed Hands Decorate Classroom Door in Colorado 

Hands Painted to form Door's Wreath

Germany Theme for Classroom Door

Art Room Door's Permanent Decor

Handprint Turkeys Decorate the Classroom Door in Texas

Door's Glass Window Pane with Decorated Wreath 

Art Room Door Decoration

Now a little time machine: speaking of filling your bucket...... I've had a couple of earlier posts that have included those visuals. Here's a bulletin board from my two day residency in Clyde OH's Main Street Elementary. Of course I LUV every one of my invitations into schools, but when its my third or fourth visit over a decade of years, I may have a tad bit of partiality. 

Just being in their new building amid old friends filled my bucket!



If your site is into the bucket filling metaphor, you simply owe it to yourself to click back in time to this previous post from my visit to a Tampa, FL site of kindergarten kiddos. Not only did they have individual children's buckets-of-craftivity decorated on their classroom door, they had an entire system of 'library book pockets' with notes being left inside to encourage kindness and cooperation. [Click right here to go back to that earlier article.]

Bucket-filling Bulletin Board of Creativity

Door's Wreath of Crayons

There's a lot here to inspire your creations for the years ahead. I hope that you're enjoying walking alongside my adventures down the hallways of this past school year! Would you be kind and pin this image of the collage below? It will bring my work additional visibility -- while you help out a peer looking for an inspiration. THANKS!

I realize that you may just be popping through from Pinterest and have never heard of me. I'll conclude with a favorite YouTube video shot on Long Island.
Let me share just a glimmer of one of my Author Illustrator School Visits.  

This group of 330 kindergarten children created the most colossal bulletin board of all time in response to my first picture book, "You're Wonderful." Enjoy a rousing presentation of my original children's song "Glad I'm at School Today." 

-- Debbie --

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From the future...... MORE bulletin boards! 
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I also have a collaborative Pinterest board dedicated to door decorations + bulletin boards. Join the 47,250++ teacher-pinners who are already following my Pinterest collection by clicking here. 

Note from the future: 
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