Trying something a little different this year, I created a “Summer Travels” Bulletin board, and it quickly became one of my most popular interactive bulletin boards ever!
Fun with Back-to-School Bulletin Boards
Category Archives: Bulletin Boards and Book Art
Hooray for Mistakes!
As the Creative Librarian, I am always looking for interesting ways to get my students’ creative juices flowing. Today, my kindergarten and first grade students explored their creative side after reading the book Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg, an ode to those who make mistakes – and how they can be turned into something beautiful.
Tying in the importance of recycling and reusing our resources, we discussed risk-taking and challenging oneself to make the world a better place. One of the many wonderful things about teaching elementary age students is that they generally are willing to explore an idea and embrace it fully with abandon. My students were given scraps of ripped, wrinkled, and worn construction paper, scissors, glue, markers,and crayons, and began creating their own Beautiful Oops– inspired artwork. They selected just the right pieces of paper, and began crunching, coloring, cutting, and ripping. Within a few minutes their scraps transformed into art. I was thrilled with their excitement, and impressed by my students’ masterpieces!
Beautiful Oops – A Program to Foster Creativity
I hope you and your students will be inspired to make your mistakes beautiful, too!
Awesome & Amazing!
I am turning the Big 5-0 in April (where does the time go?!), and have decided my word of the year is ‘spectacular’. On December 31st, when I look back on my year, I want to describe 2016 as SPECTACULAR! I challenged my 4th & 5th grade students to pick their word for 2016, and created a Wordle word cloud with their answers. Awesome and amazing were the most popular words, but I loved the creativity of some of my students when they listed fantabulous, specialistic, and sparkelicious!
As the Creative Librarian, I try to bring creativity into my library, and part of my creativity comes out in my bulletin boards and book spine art!
Check out my Bulletin Boards and Book Displays Pinterest board for more examples!
The Creative Librarian 