Spring Bulletin Board for Daycare: get ready for the season –free printable

The days are getting longer and the weather is starting to warm up – it’s finally spring! This means that it’s time to start thinking about how you can update your daycare space for the season. One great way to do this is by creating fun and festive bulletin boards. In this blog post, we will discuss some ideas for spring bulletin boards in daycare. Let’s get started!

My old home was overrun by my daycare business. Everywhere you looked. It wasn’t a cozy home, it was daycare. I knew that when I moved I wanted that to change. I wanted twice the house and half the daycare clutter.

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So far so good.

One thing I didn’t want to give up was my display or bulletin board. It’s always very simple, but it’s the first thing you see before opening up the door to my daycare entrance.

This little wall is just for decorations and I switch it up for the seasons or holidays. It’s a great way to add some color and fun into the space.

For spring, I like to keep things light and bright. I tend to use a lot of pastel colors in my displays, this year, I’m doing things a little different.

The color palette is very mid-century modern and I just loved it.

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How to get started

It’s very easy to put up a bulletin board. You don’t need a big space or to spend a lot of money to have a fun seasonal display.

In October when I was getting my Halloween display ready, I found a kit of sorts at Walmart for $5. It had a large thick orange background paper along with the cut outs. My display space is on the side of a cabinet by my daycare door so this large sheet of thick paper was perfect. Yes bright orange, but I’ve made it work ever since.

You can grab different color poster board at Walmart or the Dollar Tree or perhaps the space you’ve chosen doesn’t need anything.

Decorating your bulletin board

Choosing what to put on your bulletin board is the fun part.

Over the years I’ve done different things like make the entire space look like a snowman or little leprechaun cut outs with the faces of all my daycare kids inside that they got to take home after the holiday.

Sometimes I will visit orientaltraiding.com for display cutouts or I’ll dig through my holiday container for random things I can use.

If you are wanting to use what you have, grab out some construction paper and scissors. Hearts can also turn into shamrocks or cut them in half for raindrops.

Finding Inspiration

I will admit, with my spring display I went a little beyond simply finding inspiration. While working on pieces for an upcoming spring craft with the kids, I came across an image on Canva that I absolutely loved and decided to use all the elements for my bulletin board.

This may not be your style and that is okay! You may not be interested in my free printable but scroll down a bit for more ideas!

When looking for inspiration I always suggest to first look through what you have. Do you have a banner you can take apart or a flag you don’t use? Maybe some old art projects your own children made. If you want something new, check out Pinterest for ideas galore! Or you can do what I stumbled upon and find an image you like on Canva.com.

How to use this printable

First thing you need to do is print it out –you can get it HERE.

Decide where you plan to print your file, at home or a print shop.

After you’ve printed your file it’s time to turn on your favorite show and get to cutting. Most of the pieces aren’t too bad but the little curls on the butterflies and flowers are a bit of a pain. get some cute little detail scissors and take your time.

Once you have all your items cut out I recommend laminating your pieces. After all that work you want to be able to reuse these pieces!

Laminating requires one more time with the scissors.

A couple laminating tips

• Make sure to leave a little space around each piece when cutting out to insure they stay together
• Put pieces in your laminating sheets carefully so they don’t move as you run it through your machine. Such a bummer when they’ve slipped and you don’t notice until they come out the other side.
• Don’t waste your laminating sheets!! If you have other things needing to be laminated, slip them in the sheets too! You can’t pull them apart again after they’ve gone through the machine.

My favorite products

If you want to know what I use to get my bulletin board, busy books, reusable worksheets etc ready, below I have those items linked. I have found purchasing from Amazon is much cheaper than from Walmart if you can wait the couple days for shipping. This has been one of the best purchases I have made this year for my daycare and I can not believe in the 14 years I’ve been in business, I have never had one of these.

This is the exact laminator I have and it works amazing. I have tried out both the packs of laminating sheets below and if you’re a brand person, the Scotch laminating sheets are great. If you don’t mind other products, in this case the Amazon Basics brand, for basically the same price you can get 200 sheets and, in my opinion, the quality is very comparable.

My Hello Spring pieces all ready to hang!

This is all the pieces I found, sized, printed, cut, laminated, then cut again. It’s a job that’s for sure, but I am so excited about how cute and different it is!

Spring theme ideas

• Easter
• jumping in mud puddles
• flowers
• april showers bring may flowers
• flowers cut from little hands
• butterflies
• Sunshine
• ‘my favorite peeps’
• planting

What kind of bulletin board are you going to make?

I would love to hear about your bulletin board plans or if you try out the printable above! Let me know in the comments below!

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Happy Spring!