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Themes: Frogs
Jump
Into Music
(submitted by Kate)
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This is a bulletin board that I used at the
start of the school year, but it could be used in January
to commemorate the new year as well. I covered the board
in green and used a music-related border, and drew a frog
outline on green tagboard to staple to the board. The eyes
of the frog are old CDs (you could use those AOL ones
everybody continually gets in the mail, or CDs you try to
burn on your computer that get messed up somehow). The
tongue is made out of red ribbon (the kind with slim wires
built into the sides). Simple board that gets lots of
looks and compliments from kids and staff alike! |
I'm Awfully POND
of You!
I love bulletin boards that brag on my students.
This idea uses the frog theme. Basically you create a pond
scene by cutting a large "pond" of blue paper and adding
slightly imperfect circles of green. On these circles write
the names of the students that you are highlighting. You may
want to add a reason why they are on the board like "choir
member", "100% of Theory Test", "Band
President" or whatever. Add a few scraps of green
around the pond, maybe a few cattails (easy to make-brown
rectangles) for artist effects. Purchase some preprinted
frog notepads or print some from your favorite desktop publishing
program to add around the board. Add the caption "I'm
Awfully POND of You". Click picture for
close-up.
- Variations:
- Change "I'm Awfully POND of You" to "Mrs.
King is Awfully Pond of You"
- Use a digital camera and a photo editing program to create a
green face for your frog from a picture of yourself. For
even bigger laughs use a photo of your principal!
Watch Those Frogs
in Your Throat
This bulletin board will keep your singers from
croaking. *smile* Print several tips for keeping your
voice healthy (feel free to use the ones I've posted) on full
sheets of paper. Above wide, short green rectangles (we want
them to look like the side view of a lily pad) post the reminders.
Add frogs all over the board. I would suggest printing some
from your favorite desktop publishing software (you can even use
the clip art in Microsoft Word) or purchase some preprinted
and precut frog paper from the teacher store. Add the
caption "Watch Those Frogs in Your Throat...Take Care of Your
Voice". Click picture for close-up.
If You're HOPPY
and You Know It
Create a large staff in the middle of your
bulletin board. I usually draw this one with a large black
marker, but you could also use masking tape or black electrical
tape if you wanted. Print out several frogs of appropriate
size (or buy the preprinted ones at the teacher store) and place
them on the staff in the appropriate positions to represent the
melody of "If You're Happy and You Know It". Add
the caption "If You're HOPPY and You Know It".
Click picture for close-up.
NOTE: Yeah, yeah... I know that the melody
isn't correctly "notated" above. I intentionally
arranged them this way so that you could get a better idea of what
the complete board would look like when posted.
Hop To It
It's cute. It's simple. It goes with
the frog theme. You may want to use "Hip Hop To
It" instead of "Hop To It". Click
picture for close-up.
TOADally Awesome
Instruments
Create large lily pads by cutting slightly
imperfect green circles and place them on a blue background.
Label each of the lily pads one of the instrument families and
place pictures of instruments that belong in that family on the
lily pad. You could just post one instrument and rotate new
ones in each week. Add a few frogs here and there and the
caption "TOADally Awesome Instruments". Click
picture for close-up.
There are an infinite number of ways to take
this theme. Instead of instruments, you could highlight
rhythms, vocalists, band or choir members, melodies, etc....
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