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
Setting goals for the new year
The new year is the perfect time to start thinking about what goals you want to achieve. This teacher came up with a clever play on words and incorporated the theme of goal-setting into her classroom bulletin board design.
This teacher came up with a list of goals that could inspire the class from making a new friend to being unique.
Write an inspirational message
Maybe you just want to keep your bulletin board simple with an inspiring message that encourages students to put their best foot forward in the new year.
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 shine bright or spread kindness as these two bulletin boards suggest. These teachers also had students illustrate 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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