| The fall tide brings cool mornings, changing trees, and | | | | windows. The watercolor leaves make really cool |
| new ideas for creating classroom decorations inspired | | | | classroom decorations! |
| by autumn. The theme of trees and leaves are central | | | | You can string together some of the small leaves to |
| to the fall season and can be re-created in many | | | | make a border for the cork board or chalkboard. Mix |
| classroom decorating ideas. | | | | the watercolor leaves with construction paper leaves |
| Falling for a Classroom Tree | | | | to make the garlands more dynamic. There are also |
| Using the themes of trees and leaves to decorate the | | | | some really nice fall themed bulletin board trimmers |
| door of your classroom works really well or if your | | | | you can buy if you would rather do that. If you or your |
| door does not provide you enough space you can | | | | students cut extra large leaves, those can be used as |
| decorate one of the walls in the classroom. The first | | | | a background for autumn poetry. |
| thing you want to do using either cardboard or brown | | | | Decorating With Words |
| construction paper is make the trunk and the branches | | | | Because fall is the time of year when students return |
| of the tree. You can have the students add detail to | | | | to school, a great way to get their minds moving (while |
| the branches and trunk by using paint, colored pencils, | | | | also creating classroom decorations) is by |
| or crayons. | | | | brainstorming. Ask them to think of as many words as |
| After you have the branches and the trunk completed | | | | they can that remind them of autumn. After you have |
| it's time to begin making the leaves using brown, | | | | a nice selection of autumn themed words, use large |
| orange, red, yellow, and green construction paper. You | | | | stencils to draw them onto different colored |
| can even create multi-colored leaves by gluing a | | | | construction paper. The words can then be cut out |
| couple or several of the colors together to show that | | | | and put up around the room or used as classroom |
| the leaves are in the process of changing color. Next, | | | | door decorations. |
| have each child write their name on one of the leaves | | | | Decorating With Squash and Pumpkins |
| they created and hang the leaves on the branches of | | | | Create a beautiful display by arranging small pumkins, |
| the tree using glue, tape, or staples. If you would like to | | | | squash or gourds either on shared tables or a side |
| you can even add more detail to the tree by making | | | | table in the classroom. These veggies will last a long |
| birds and cats out of construction paper and hanging | | | | time and bring the bounty of nature into the classroom, |
| them up in the tree. | | | | as well as enhance your classroom décor with their |
| Inspiring with Watercolor Leaves | | | | colorful skins. |
| Watercolors, with their soft, dreamy tones and the | | | | These classroom decorating ideas will help get you |
| gentle bleeding of one color into another, lend | | | | started on creating an autumn classroom cornucopia. |
| themselves perfectly to autumn classroom decorating. | | | | Use bright autumn colors combined with leaf and |
| One simple craft is to invite your students to create | | | | pumpkin themes to make classroom decorating |
| large watercolor paintings on both sides of thick paper, | | | | interesting and fun. Involve your students by having |
| allowing them to dry in between Then cut out the | | | | them make watercolor paintings, cut leaves, and share |
| watercolor paintings into the shapes of leaves and | | | | inspirational words. |
| hang the leaves from the ceiling or tape them to the | | | | |