I am a kindergarten teacher, does anyone have any neat classroom decorating ideas?

Answer 1

You could snap a picture of the child doing and art project and print that out and tape it to the corner of the actual art project they were doing and display those where the families can see them.
For the rainy season you can position the children holding up one arm and their hand fisted like they are holding an umbrella then cut out color umbrellas and handles and stick them up in the room so it looks like they are holding an umbrella.
Also you could position the children in the shapes of the letters in the alphabet and use a step ladder to snap pictures for up high, you can display them on the wall and make a picture book for the library.

Answer 2

Pick a theme and make it work for you.

Dr. Seuss. Do drawings of the different creatures and have out all of their books. The first day the kids can make a "The Cat in the Hat" hat. Check with the school and make green eggs and ham for a snack. Do it up big for the first day.

Ocean theme. Put out water animal books, ocean books, Hang animal creatures from the ceiling, use brown butcher paper and draw on it to look like the bottom of a boat, attach this to the ceiling, play a cd that has ocean sounds, keep the lights off or on low as the children arrive, eat gummy fish for a snack.

Hope this helps, good luck

Answer 3

I hope you will consider the students helping you do this.

Paper hearts, snowflakes, paper dolls. Perhaps you can get some local business to let you have used color copy paper. Print shops may have a lot of this to offer. The kids won't mind if there is print on one side.

You can cut some of this paper into strips and let the kids glue strings of loop, like a paper chain, for you to pin up along the walls. During the term, you can hang some of the kid's artwork from the chain.

Paper mache is messy, but, oh, so much fun. The kids can bring in newspapers from home. Some ideas:

Blow up small balloons then wrap them in paper mache. When they are dry, pop the balloon and paint the ball. The balls could be cut in half to make ...?;

Make a simple rack and tie two parallell strings horizontaly, say, about 8 or 10 inches apart. Dip some strips of paper into the paper mache gunk and hang the strips from the top string, putting a twist or two in the strip before attaching it to the bottom string. When dry, paint like crazy!;

Make picture frames by laying out thick strips of paper mache on sheets of wax paper. Dry then paint them. Have the kids make collages using photos from magazines, newspaper, postcards, greeting cards or even photos from home. Frame the finished work and hang them up all over the classroom. Rotate the artwork as the kids create new work for each season or holiday event.

The more work you let THEM do, the less YOU have to do. Of course, get them involved in the clean up.

Answer 4

When I was teaching I had a special tree which I had painted on the wall, minus the leaves. At the end of each week a child was chosen for a special reason to come up put their name on a leaf and stick it to the tree. The children really loved this activity and also learnt from it. Some ideas for choosing children can be, great sharing, great packing up etc. Make sure everyone gets a leaf and you will end up with a fabulous decorative tree which the parents will enjoy also...

Answer 5

If you're preparing your classroom for your students prior to the start of the coming school year, then I would advise you to pick a book or books and bring them to life by placing familiar characters from the stories around your room. You can also transform your room to look like a location or locations from any book.

There are lots of children's books you could choose. I'm sure some come to your mind immediately, but my first suggestion is "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. Imagine Max, his boat and the Wild Things on your walls. You could photocopy images from the book onto transparencies and then use your overhead projector to blow them up. Trace the designs onto white butcher paper and color them with paints, markers, crayons, etc. If you wanted, you could start the year with the room looking quite bare, but then add trees and vines each day so that it appears your classroom is transforming like Max's did in the book. Then add his boat another day. You get the idea. Of course, I'd start by reading the book on the first day of school.

Have fun!

Answer 6

i helped teach a pre school class and we did many different things to decorate!

1. Turned the class room into an aquarium. I cut out big fish and let each child color it how he/she wanted. I cute out bubbles and seaweed and taped it all up on the walls with painters tape. It was so cute! They love learning about fish during aquarium week.

2. Decorate like a beach. Bring in some lounge chairs for a reading area, some huge umbrellas, towels for naptime. have them to all color palm trees and birds and put them up around the room.

3. Zoo. Have them to all bring in a favorite stuffed animal for a month and put it on display (make sure they are out of reach, cause they will destroy them! lol) Make cutouts of elephants, zebras, monkeys etc. Get some books that go with the theme and sit them up for display. Put me in the Zoo is a great Dr. Suess Book to go with this theme!

With all of these use bright streamers and crepe paper. Happy decorating!

Answer 7

I was a kindergarten teacher and in one corner I made a big tree out of paper and had all the kids on the first day of school draw out their hands onto green paper, orange paper, yellow, red, and white....then I put up the green paper hands (I had their names written on them) as leaves until it was october then we put up the yellow, red and orange hands some falling off the tree some on the ground area around the tree...then when it was winter I used the white hands to make it look like snow...oh I forgot I used other colors for the spring to make into little flowers onto the limbs of the tree....at the end of the year I put all their hands into a book for them to take home...they loved it

Answer 8

I use to teach preschool and was always looking for new ideas. I came across several good website on decorating classrooms. Hopefully you will find some good ideas from some of these websites.

Good luck

Answer 9

Here's a suggestion for a reading corner. Get some big pillows , bean hag chair or rocking chairs, put in a listening center and decorate it brightly with book covers, animal pictures etc.

Answer 10

Your PreK class must have the "familiar" up and about and interacted with. yet... you could make a particular area on the wall/bulletin board/and so on which will properly be topic appropriate. Even better, get the youngsters in contact and characteristic them create projects and such and submit. it really is what i seek for after I enter right into a preK lecture room. Uncluttered and prepared walls, products printed at baby's eye aspect...and baby initiated. sturdy success!