Creative Fall Themed Classroom Decorations
The fall tide brings crisp mornings, changing trees, and new ideas for creating classroom decorations inspired by fall. The theme of trees and leaves are central to the fall season and can be re-created in many classroom decorating ideas.
Tree Door Decoration
Using the themes of trees and leaves to decorate the door of your classroom works really well or if your door does not provide you adequate space you can decorate one of the walls inside the classroom. The first thing you want to do using either cardboard or brown construction paper is make the trunk and the branches of the tree. You can have the children add detail to the branches and trunk by using paint, colored pencils, or crayons.
Once you have the branches and the trunk done it’s time to start creating the leaves using brown, orange, red, yellow, and green construction paper. You can even make multi-colored leaves by gluing a couple or several of the colors together to show that the leaves are in the process of changing color. Next, have each child write their name on one of the leaves they created and put the leaves on the branches of the tree using adhesive, tape, or staples. If you would like to you can even add more detail to the tree by making birds and cats out of construction paper and hanging them up in the tree.
Using Watercolors to Make Leaves
Children really enjoy watercolor crafts and with the way the colors blend together they are perfect for making fall classroom decoration. One really cool thing you can do with the watercolors is have the students make watercolor paintings and then cut leaf shapes out of the paintings they created to put around the room. Allow the students to really use their imaginations and paint whatever they want.
You can string together some of the smaller leaves to make a border for the cork board or chalkboard. You might want to mix in some leaves cut out of construction paper to add more character to the border. There are also some really nice fall themed bulletin board trimmers you can purchase if you would rather do that. Any leaves you have left over can be used as a background for other artwork or classwork the children did.
Using Words to Decorate
Because fall is the time of year when students return to school, a great way to get their minds moving (while also creating classroom decorations) is by brainstorming. To start with tell them to list as many things as they can that have to do with autumn. After several minutes of brainstorming take all of the words they came up with and draw them onto colored construction paper. The words can then be cut out and put up around the room or used as classroom door decoration.
Enjoying Small Pumpkins and Squash
Create a lovely display by arranging small pumkins, squash or gourds either on shared tables or a side table in the classroom. These vegatables will last a long time and bring the bounty of nature into the classroom, as well as enhance your classroom décor with their colorful skins.
Hopefully these classroom decorating tips for the fall season will help you make an enjoyable learning environment for your students and start the school year off on the right foot.
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