Happy New Year! The year 2025 is an opportunity for a fresh start.
Bulletin boards are the perfect place to display your students New Year’s resolutions—whether they are focused on new things they want to learn, doing small acts of kindness, or helping around their chores. These New Year’s bulletin board ideas for teachers are sure to get your students thinking about 2025 and what changes they want to make in school and in their personal lives. If you are looking for other ways to celebrate the New Year, try these New Year’s activities for students.
Happy New Year bulletin board ideas
Write an inspirational message
You can keep your bulletin board simple with an inspiring message that encourages students to put their best foot forward in the new year. One teacher came up with fun snow themed posters that inspire students to be confident and dream big.
Setting goals for the new year
The new year is the perfect time to start thinking about what goals you want to achieve. Plus, we commend this teacher for taking advantage of the clever play on words that was only available in 2020!
This teacher came up with a list of goals that could inspire the class from making a new friend to being unique.
Find a theme
Or maybe you want to center the new year and your bulletin board with a theme. For example, you could encourage your students to dance into the new year, shine bright, or spread kindness as these bulletin boards suggest. These teachers also had students illustrate or write what they were hoping to achieve in the coming year and found creative ways to display students’ names!
More New Year’s school bulletin board ideas?
If you have any more Happy New Year bulletin board ideas handy, share them with us at Shaped@hmhco.com.
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This blog post, originally published in 2021, has been updated for 2024.
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