September Smiles: 21 Fun Bulletin Board Ideas For The New School Year (2024)

If you are preparing for a new school year, you’ll never some great September bulletin board ideas! As always, we want to aid teachers in making their jobs easier so that you will be better prepared to help kids. In this edition, we scoured the web this time for bulletin board ideas for September. We focused on everything from the obvious to the creative and tried to choose ideas that tried to include student participation as much as possible.

Table of Contents

• What makes a great September bulletin board?
• 21 September Bulletin Board Ideas You Can Use
• September Bulletin Board Ideas FAQS
• Summary

What makes a great September bulletin board?

September is a month of new starts. Kids are coming back to school and by now have gotten settled into their new grade. The environment you provide for your kids is really important in September because it tends to set the tone for the rest of the school year. Choose your bulletin board projects thoughtfully. Below are a few things to consider:

• Creating a colorful, aesthetically pleasing background
• Incorporating what you are learning in your classroom
• Including the seasons, holidays, and special events
• Football can be included as it starts up in September also
• Instilling good values in a subtle way including the importance of friendships and understanding of others

21 September Bulletin Board Ideas You Can Use

Below are 21 great September bulletin board ideas to browse through. Decide which ones you relate to and which ones your students might like. Remember to include all of the elements of a great bulletin board to inspire learning and a positive attitude toward others!

1. Quack, Quack, Welcome Back! From Preschool Ideas Enjoy L

Here is a cute September Welcome Back board idea for preschoolers. But it could be adapted to apply to older kids, too. Simply changing the look of the objects or animals in the picture could make it more amenable to older kids. Regardless of what age group you use this for, it’s a nice idea and will get kids excited about starting a new year.

2. A Star Is Born From Bored Teachers

Check out this idea from Bored Teachers. It has a Hollywood/movie theme and can be used to celebrate same-month birthdays. It allows you to group the birthday month people into separate groups as well as to show when various students’ birthdays are during the year. This can also promote new friendships and give the “same month” people something to talk about.

3. Oh The Place You’ll Go! From Ms. Hanson’s Teaching Toolbox

Borrowed from the great Dr. Seuss by Ms. Hanson’s , Teaching Toolbox is a great idea for September as you fire up another school year. You want kids to imagine the adventures they will have in their new grade, right? This book-inspired bulletin board or door backdrop is a great start. You might even grab the book and read it to them, too! Then have students share their “dream adventure” to get to know more about what they like.

4. Kickin’ It In __ Grade From We Are Teachers

For soccer fans, how about this soccer-inspired board that tells kids to “kick it” in the grade they are entering. Kids have a language all their own and this is an expression they often use to state their like of something really cool. If you want to relate to kids, use their language. This bulletin board idea is a great place to start.

5. Apple Up From Around The Kamp

Linda Kamp, a 20-year primary teacher, submitted this great September bulletin board idea on Blogspot. It features apples, of course, a favorite fruit and a great symbol of the Fall season. She lets kids draw pictures on the inside of the apples or share a favorite Fall memory. The rest of the bulletin board features apple baskets of words that are commonly used in the classroom during reading time.

6. Hispanic Heritage Writing Prompts From Art Of It

Why not make your bulletin board into a writing board, as well? You can display older students’ writing for parents to see at Parent/Teacher night or just to inspire their peers to write about a certain topic. Since September and October are Hispanic Heritage celebration times, why not make a September bulletin board with tributes of various well-known Hispanic singers, inventors, artists, and others who have made the world a better place?

7. Cactus Goal Setting Bulletin Board The Design Teacher

These next 4 bulletin boards were created by the same person, but we thought they were worthy of mentioning (all 4 of them). They are located on the same URL so check them out when you can. The cactus goal setting one is great for getting kids to set and strive to reach goals. These can be academic goals you have set for the class or personal goals kids set for themselves.

8. Mountain Mindset Bulletin Board The Designer Teacher

This mountain mindset board idea is great because it reminds kids that believing in themselves can help keep them going to achieve amazing things.

9. Kind To The Core Bulletin Board From The Designer Teacher

This kindness bulletin board helps instill the importance of kindness while using an apple, a favorite fruit of September, to illustrate the point.

10. These Pumpkins Can Persevere The Designer Teacher

This cute but simple bulletin board takes up very little space but uses cute little pumpkins to applaud students who never give up. We really like these 4 ideas by Sarah Forst because they all focus on mindfulness of important traits that students should master to be successful in life.

11. Apple-Themed Bulletin BoardBy Socially Skilled Kids

If you are looking for individual pieces to put on a basic Fall bulletin board, try these on Teachsimple.com. We offer a wide variety of teacher supplies and materials at reasonable prices.

12. Who’s Who Board From Little Learning Corner

Why not use your classroom bulletin board to show off the accomplishments of your students? with this Whos Who board, each student gets a name tag at the top, then students take turns posting stick-it notes or colored lined paper under the appropriate name. Other students can help by interviewing the student about their hobbies, clubs, and interests, then have the peer write about them instead.

13. Who’s Ready For A Great Year? From School Bulletin Board

This positive September bulletin board idea is a great one to get off on the right foot. It features hands of different colors in the air to the question of who wants to have a great year. What is more important than instilling confidence in your students the first day that they will have a great year and that they are a part of that.

14. A Grape Bunch Of 7th Graders From The Applicious Teacher

Looking for a great play on words? Try this cute “grape bunch” theme that features an oversized bunch of grapes next to the title, “A Grape Bunch of 7th Graders.”

15. Fall In Love With Learning From Rapides Parish Schools

This bulletin board featuring a tree with Fall leaves with many of the leaves gathered below the base of the tree with the words, “Fall into Love with Learning.” This is a great idea for those learners who are less than motivated to rethink what they want out of school and perhaps inspire some class discussions about how learning makes us who we are.

16. Why Fit In When You Were Born To Stand Out? From Rapides Parish Schools

We really love this bulletin board but you might not find this one in a book about September bulletin board ideas. Still, it could definitely be used this way as a type of irony to its theme. It says, “Why fit in when you were born to stand out” and it features snowflakes, all of which are different from each other. Doesn’t every other teacher do fall leaves in September, apples, and welcome back signs? Think different. Make a statement about the importance of originality. Dare to dream of snowfall in the Autumn. Cause a stir. Just do it. Watch the reactions.

17. In A World…From Rapides Parish Schools

This is a great conversation starter that also communicates your values that you want to instill in students that goes beyond academics. Students can create the “rays” that lead from the globe of the earth with whatever best characteristics they decide as a class are most important.

18. Plant Smiles From Rapides Parish Schools

This attractive bulletin board features the words, “Plant smiles, grow giggles, harvest love.” This September bulletin board idea was contributed by Peabody Montesorri School in 2015. Students helped create the scene that features a large pumpkin predominantly but stands as a symbol of what can be done when people interact with each other in a positive way.

19. Harvest Of Good Reading From Little Learning Corner

This nice Fall bulletin board features a bucket of books where the titles are clearly visible. We love this idea because it might actually get kids interested in specific books which could become “contagious” in the room. Classes that have used a “literacy lab” approach where students can read whatever they choose and then come back to the group to report on it have proven very effective with struggling student populations where literacy was low or books hard to find. (See James Earl Jones’s movie, “The Reading Room” to learn more).

20. Fall For A Good Book From Little Learning Corner

Here’s another of our great ideas for September bulletin boards that show book titles in a Fall tree with a Fall scene. This is a great idea for Fall reading groups or library spaces.

21. One More Idea By Guinea Pig Education

If you need a great writing prompt idea that could also be made into a bulletin board, try this one from Teach Simple. We offer a number of great prompts like this one in which students write about their school. Visit teachsimple.com to learn more about how we can help teachers reach their classroom goals.

September Bulletin Board Ideas FAQS

Summary

We hope you have found at least a few September bulletin board ideas from this post that you can use this September (or anytime you see fit) to inspire your students. Bulletin boards are a type of advertisem*nt about units you are studying, the seasons of the year, and other factors that impact students’ lives. By exploring a number of different materials and ideas, you can create something wonderful that is sure to inspire and amaze your students.For more information about what we do to help teachers every day, visit us at teachsimple.com.