Fall is full of holidays worth celebrating, including a day that’s all about showing gratitude. Build excitement for Turkey Day with these Thanksgiving bulletin boards for the classroom!
Thanksgiving Bulletin Board Ideas Using Free Printables
What’s better than a fun Thanksgiving bulletin board for your classroom? One that’s easy to assemble using free printables! Just add a seasonal border and a few personal touches to turn our Thanksgiving printables into inspiring classroom decor.
Thankful For …
The letters of this banner each print on their own individual pages, making it easy to assemble this bulletin board! Invite students to fill the leaves with things they’re thankful for to make this a personalized classroom decoration everyone will love.
Grab this free printable set of letters, leaves, and other fall-themed decorations to create a quick bulletin board.
Thanksgiving Word Wall
Word walls help students master vocabulary and spelling, making them a handy tool in any classroom. Create an easy Thanksgiving vocabulary bulletin board by choosing terms from our list of fall words, which includes free printable cards. Add them to your board for students to reference as they work on seasonal writing assignments or other projects.
With more than 175 word cards, our fall words printable set provides plenty of options for a word wall bulletin board!
Turkey in Disguise
How can a turkey keep itself safe on Thanksgiving? It needs a disguise, of course! Challenge your students to come up with ways turkeys can hide in plain sight to avoid becoming dinner. They can draw the disguises themselves, or use our free printable worksheets to create them instead. Then, all you need to do is hang some borders and lettering, then add your students’ creations to your Thanksgiving bulletin board!
Use our free printable worksheets for a fun activity that doubles as classroom decor!
Thanksgiving Trivia
Interactive bulletin boards are one of our favorite ways to increase engagement in the classroom. To create a simple seasonal interactive board, print some of the question and answer slides from our Thanksgiving trivia set. Staple the questions to the board with the answers underneath, so students can flip up the questions and find out how much they really know about this fall holiday!
Thanksgiving Jokes and Riddles
If you’d rather add some humor to your classroom walls, choose a selection of our jokes and riddles to create a bulletin board instead. Hang the answers beneath each joke, so students can flip them up and giggle at the punchlines!
THANKSGIVING JOKES AND RIDDLES SLIDES
You’ll find plenty of laughs to share in our set of 100+ slides full of Thanksgiving jokes and riddles!
Instagram-Inspired Thanksgiving Bulletin Boards
For more engaging ideas, we turned to some of our favorite teacher influencers and creators on Instagram. Check out their pages for more!
Gratitude Mugs
Have students fill their paper mugs with delicious marshmallows full of everything they’re thankful for!
Thankful Gnome Matter What
We love the interactive lift-the-flap pieces of pie that show what students are grateful for at Thanksgiving (and year round)!
Thankful in Any Language
While Thanksgiving is a North American holiday, every language has a word for “thankful!”
Look Whoooo’s Thankful!
Turkeys aren’t the only birds that deserve some love this time of year—these adorable owls deserve a place in your classroom too!
Thanksgiving Parade
What balloon would you like to see in the Thanksgiving day parade? We love this bulletin board that doubles as a terrific way to display student art!
Pumpkin Up the Volume
Fans of Spookley the Square Pumpkin will love this board idea, which combines math and art for a clever display.
Gratitude Wall
Personalize this board by having every student pick a favorite book, then print the covers and add them!
Turkey Feathers
Every student can show off their personality when you let them each create a feather to add to your turkey. (We especially love those paper plate eyes!)
La Comida
World language teachers, this one is for you! Create a word wall showing all the foods associated with Thanksgiving, and invite students to share which ones they like and dislike.
Gobble Squad
This delicious-looking board is sure to whet everyone’s appetites for their Thanksgiving feasts!
Don’t forget to grab your free Thanksgiving Math Word Problem of the Day slides!
Click the button below to get your free set of 25 math word problems for the Thanksgiving season.
