Autumn is definitely in the air, and it’s time to create some fall bulletin boards and doors for your classroom. Fall foliage, beloved Halloween movies, pumpkin-spice everything, owls, turkeys, and more—we’ve got it all! We even have some great bulletin board ideas for Red Ribbon Week that spread awareness about drugs while remaining seasonal. Librarians and P.E. teachers should take note as well since we have ideas for you too. Gather your favorite fall decorations and art supplies and check out our list of the best fall bulletin boards below!
This interactive bulletin board will have students peeking under the pumpkins’ flaps whenever they pass by! Take photos of your students, then place them under their names for the cutest pumpkin patch we’ve ever seen.
Since just about everyone loves the movie It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, it just makes sense to incorporate the beloved Peanuts characters into your fall bulletin boards!
Have students create these adorable smiling pumpkins during arts-and-crafts time and then load them into a red pickup truck like this one. Kids will enjoy seeing their work on display.
It just doesn’t get any more adorable than this Frankenstein face and cute play on the word frankly. This is another board that will work in either a classroom or library.
Have your students pose with a book, then print those photos to use on a fall bulletin board like this one. Then have your students take turns trying to find themselves among the leaves!
Since apples are synonymous with fall and the start of school, this board will be perfect to leave up from September through November. The tissue paper foliage adds a fun pop!
Another apple-themed board, this one will be especially fitting if you are planning a lesson on units of measurement. Don’t forget to ask your friends and family to donate their old wooden rulers!
Your students will feel instantly welcomed into your classroom after locating their personalized owl! You’ll definitely want to have some good scrapbooking paper on hand to bring this door to life.
Fall bulletin boards welcome students into their new classroom, and what better way to do that than with sunflowers? We just love the two big ones on the door and the smaller ones labeled with students’ names lining the hallway.
We love a bulletin board that uses materials you likely already have laying around like this tree made from brown packing paper. Have students write what they are thankful for on leaves and then attach them to your tree.
Have students use orange and yellow feathers to create their own turkeys, and then write an addition sentence to show how many of each of the feathers there are. Finally, use some clothesline and clothespins to display their work.
Let students create their own silly turkeys, then add them to a cute fall board like this one. Don’t forget to create your own wild turkey to be displayed front and center!
We love this colorful, eye-popping turkey door. Have each student design their own feather so they see a little piece of themselves each day when they enter your classroom!
What’s better than an adorable turkey-themed bulletin board? How about one that features turkeys ready for trick-or-treating! It will get your student’s creative juices flowing as they design a fun costume for their disguised bird.
A simple but poignant message, this pretty board will remind students of the true message of the season. Hit up your local dollar store for some fake fall foliage and pumpkins.
Harvest a good classroom environment with a positive message like the one shared in this seasonal bulletin board. Have your students tell you what good character means to them and then add them to your garden!
Take photos of your students exercising, then use them as part of this Halloween-themed P.E. board. This would be a fun board to set up if you are planning an open house for parents and caregivers.
This board is such a clever way to incorporate both physical education and Halloween. We just love the addition of the actual jump ropes to give it a little something extra.
Taking inspiration from the beloved children’s classic Room on the Broom, this is the cutest anti-drug bulletin board we have ever seen. Students will love seeing their faces as miniature witches with their very own brooms!
Since Red Ribbon Week and Halloween both occur in October, why not try this Nightmare Before Christmas–inspired board about the dangers of drugs? Fans of the movie will love seeing their favorite characters whenever they come into the classroom.
This is the perfect board to display during October since it combines both Halloween and Red Ribbon Week. We are fans of the movie Hocus Pocus (who isn’t?) and the cute rhyming message of this board!
This bulletin board can be altered to match any school’s mascot. Are you the Panthers? Simply swap out these cute tigers with panthers. Just be sure to include cute photos of your students throughout!
Have your students create skeleton art pieces and then proudly display them on this clever Red Ribbon Week classroom door. It also doubles as a Halloween-themed door!
We just love the texture and dimension on this fun reading-inspired bulletin board. This one could take some extra time to create, so consider asking a parent volunteer to help.
A fall-themed lesson on adjectives makes for a perfect bulletin board idea. Set up the background before class and then fill in the word bubbles with student input.
Have your class work together to compose a poem about fall, then create artwork to match. We love that you’ll only need some construction paper and a glue stick to re-create this fun fall art project!
We just can’t get enough of fall-themed puns like this unbe-leaf-able one. The little superheroes will be sure to inspire the trick-or-treaters in your class.
This board will need to be low to the ground since it is meant to be interactive for little hands. It not only teaches colors and counting, but it also encourages independent learning.
This board is a win-win since bats are both endlessly fascinating and heavily associated with Halloween. Have students fill out their bat facts and then complete a matching bat drawing for display.
Fall colors are beautiful, but we just love the pop of color that these acorns add to this bulletin board. Have students write what they love about fall on their acorn and then let them create a cute squirrel to hold their prompt.
This focus board will be sure to appeal to the little football lovers in your class. The addition of dry-erase pockets makes it easy to change out information when needed.
This adorably simple bulletin board features a ghost that reminds us of Casper. All you need are a couple of simple elements to pull this one together.
While not directly related to fall, we think the “magic” of this bulletin board is that it would work any time of year. It does, however, give us mystical, Halloween vibes. You can likely use a lot of things you already have in your craft closet to complete it.
This board gives us all the fall feels. We love the tree with falling leaves, the black cats perched on the fence, and the Peanuts characters playing in the leaves.
