He Gave Himself

This board was desined by one of our Sunday School teachers. I think it is so pretty and thoughful! Personally I love blue with snowflakes and sparkles...makes for beautiful decorating. I'm pretty sure she got almost all her stuff at the Dollar Tree. Wrapping paper makes terrific Christmas and winter backgrounds! And to all the BBB readers...a very Merry Christmas to you!

From Our House to Yours (Christmas Cards)

It's that time of year again! I love this board because we put it to work! It is plainly decorated for Christmas and then everyone will bring in cards throughout the month to post for the entire church family. This saves on time and money making out cards to each church family as well as giving us a nice bulletin board for all to read in the foyer. Thanks again to Elizabeth K. for her hard work on this...she designed on a budget for Dollar General.

Attendance Charts Winter

Just adding to my attendance chart "file". Nothing much new there. : )

Fall Harvest

Here is a board by Elizabeth K. at our church. She's so creative...I love what she comes up with. I had actually purchased the leaves, ribbon border and 2 large felt pumpkins at the Dollar Tree awhile back. I gave that to her and she arranged and added her own stuff...I love the scrapbooking effect. Thanks Liz for another great board at church...I think next month I'll have you post your own so you can describe it better than I can!

I Am the Vine

A friend of mine told me if I gave her verses she would put a board up with them. So, John 15:1-8 is what I gave her and this is what she came up with! I love it; thanks Elizabeth K.! She used purple wrapping paper for the background, brown (mailing paper?) for the "vine" part and artificial grapes (though my son was sure they were real and pulled a couple off to try before he realized they were fake). : ) I don't normally show this entired board because it's so long and we used one side for announcements. However, I decided to show it all this time since she did a great job making it all blend.

Attendance Chart Fall

Well, I guess it's that time of the year...to break out the Fall decorations. As much as I don't want summer to come to an end, I do like Fall decorations! : ) This bulletin board is simply for my own "file". Nothing exciting, just my Sunday School Class Attendance Charts. I think I need to add something to this yet, seems kind of boring. My kids are too young to read though, so we'll see if I come up with something yet! : )

Make a Joyful Noise

Here is another one of Mom's boards that is in the nursery. I LOVE this adorable little board! So cute with a piece of material with farm animals (she said she thinks it's a chunk used for making a quilt) as the main background. Yellow felt fills the rest of the background with a grass border on the bottom. Words were all printed on her computer with PrintMaster...left side has animal sounds " moo, cluck, baa, etc." and the right side has the verse Psalm 100:1.

Are You Praying For Revival?

I gathered a few pics while back home last week...I always enjoy seeing my mom's boards and this is one of hers. She used blue material (I think...it could be paper, but I'm pretty sure it was material...) and then a ribbon border. The words were all printed using PrintMaster on her computer. Simple, yet pretty and thought provoking.

Set Your Affection

This is one of my favorite boards! The hot air balloons are made with posterboard, construction paper, string, and computer clip art. The clouds are simply made with white paper and white felt. Bible reading, church attendance, witnessing, obedience, and prayer are five things to set our affection on, but more could be added or used instead. It's a fun, colorful board for our kids to look at, as well as a reminder of what really counts for eternity.

Western VBS

This board is totally impromtu to cover up a blank board in preparation for VBS last week. I was playing around with leftover stuff: threw some brown paper up with a gold border and the 2 bandanas. Then I thought about the stick horse crafts (super cute from Michaels) and put a couple of those on. We took pics of the kids the first night to make their crafts out of. I used the extra pics to add a little to the board. Turned out cute in the long run! : ) Hopefully I'll have some new boards to post here soon! Anyone else out there have a board you want to post?!? Let me know!

The Earth is the Lord's

Well, I hate to say it, but this was, once again, a quick last minute idea. I bought some calendars at our Michael's this winter since they were moving across town and had calendars for 15 cents! I figured they would come in handy for a bulletin board one day. We have a young lady in our church who is going to start working on this particular board (it's in our main foyer) so I gave her some ideas for this one and she went to work picking colors etc. She did the work with my imput basically! So, though basic, it will work nicely for a few summer months.

Summer Attendance Charts

Here's a post mainly to file for my own memory. These are my summer attendance charts. It never ceases to amaze me how quickly a quarter goes by, but I hope summer lasts a LONG time! Anyway, the charts were beach pictures this quarter. When I found water background I had to get it...it's SO bright! Then I found a sea shell border so...wonderful...all set through August. One of our other teachers had aquarium attendance charts so she used the same background and border. I didn't take a picture of hers, but they turned out cute.

Happy Mother's Day!

I don't normally do Mother's and Father's day boards because I don't like the fact that I'll have to take them down within a few weeks of putting them up! (Leaving boards up for 3 months is much more my style! ; ) ) However, this year I was at a loss of what to do following missions month and my mind went to work on a quick simple mother's day board. I actually had a very different picture in my mind of what I would do, but as usual, while I was shopping I found other stuff and changed course. So, here you have a very pink look...background is pink and black polka dot wrapping paper from WalMart. I already had black letters on hand. Paper doilies (I cut them in half) and pink daisies can also be found at WalMart. Thankfully 2 of the ladies at church gave me a hand last night putting this up and it went quickly. I'm sure the ladies at church will be surprised I actually did a board for them this year! : ) HAPPY MOTHER'S day to all the Mom's out there...especially to my mom and mother-in-law!

God Keeps His Promises

Here's my Mom's Easter board for this year. I took several pics so we could read the verses better. The back ground is material with a ribbon border. Verses are all printed from the computer. I don't really know where she got the middle picture, but my sister told me she colored it! ; )

Jesus Loves Me

I was able to get some pics of my Mom's boards while back home for Easter. Here is her nursery board which looks to me like she may have done for Valentine's Day. The background his wrapping paper. The picture in the middle is a Sunday School hand out from A Beka. The cute little pics of the kids look like they were computer generated with borders. (?)

Missions...Go Ye Therefore

Well, I actually did this board trying not to spend any money and I did! I rummaged through old missions stuff and found a map I had never posted. It had little globes along with it that I used to write the name and country of each of our missionaries.

Rise and Shine Children of the Lord!

My sister in law did this cute board for junior church. You gotta love digital cameras-how they can catch the quirky little looks of kids, and how they make getting a picture so quick! We got a kick out of all the "kool aid" smiles shown...the after snack time in jr. church look. Anyway, nothing new about this except the letters. They are thin vinyl letters with sticky backs that I got at our local education store. I wasn't sure if I would like them, but after they were up I really liked how "clean" they went on (no staples and flat finish). They say they are reusable, so I'll have to update you later to let you know how that works for us.

Attendance Chart Spring

And, we have yet another attendance chart for Spring. Nothing really new to post about it; I'm just putting it "on file" for my own future reference.

Attendance Chart: Missions

Next on my list of basic boards...this is an attendance board in one of our classrooms. I LOVE using attendance charts to decorate a board because it's easy, and very colorful! This is another reason for all my borders, backgrounds, etc. that I keep on file, so we can quickly take down one season and move on to the next. I thought it was neat how the charts for this class, this quarter, have a mission theme (children of the world) since we have "missions month" at our church in April. So, the teacher used that to make a mission minded attendance board. Stephanie, I didn't even realize when you posted your mission kids that we have the same ones! : )

Decorating with visual aides...

This is a very basic board, but I decided to go ahead and post it just to give others ideas on posting basic visual aides. This is actually a story card from A BEKA. Since it's the nursery bulletin board it's ok to keep it simple (though I love the sheep one posted by A. Long!). I try to keep bulletin borders for all seasons in a nice neat little file where our teachers can get to them easily. I have several storage totes as well that are full of seasonal "helps" to make a quick board such as: snowflakes, candy canes, bugs, kites, hot air balloons, frogs, leaves, pumpkins, apples, etc. Of course, I also have lots of background colors and letters on file for the teachers too. You can come up with a board fairly quickly if you have the right supplies stashed! I'm going to post several more basic boards just; mainly for my own memory sake. : )

All we like sheep

This is a bulletin board for our church nursery. I used an overhead projector to enlarge the sheep clipart in the middle. You could use any sheep graphic in place of this. The "grass" under the picture is spring excelsior I got at Michaels and stapled to the board. The bulletin border is light blue gingham wrapping paper (also from Michaels) that I cut into strips.

Be Still and Know

January is always a hard month for me to come up with a new board idea! I think it's coming down from the "holiday high" of so many decorations or something! Anyway, last week I found this poster on a shelf in the church office. I got it last summer as a buy two get one free deal at our local education store. I had forgotten all about it, but it gave me an idea to do a simple yet thought provoking board. Sunday afternoon while at nursing home service I noticed their sparkly plastic snowflakes hanging from the ceiling and thought they would make a pretty addition to a board. The lady told me they'd gotten them at the dollar store so I planned to look there. However, the next day while I was at our local cake decorating store looking for the right color of blue tablecloth, I just happened to run into the same snowflakes. They were on a 50% off table which made them a great deal! I even found a white ribbon with silver snowflakes being sold by the yard that I could use as the border. With one stop I had all I needed to make my board! By the way, does anyone know how to take wrinkles out of the plastic tablecloths?! One reason I don't use them much is because I don't like the wrinkle look...but in this case I needed to save money. I used straight pins to hold the snowflakes up since a staple or glue wouldn't do the job in this case. So, that's my board for January...ok, it will probably stay up till March! : )

Untold Millions Are Still Untold

In preparation for our church's mission conference at the end of this month, we put up our missions board last weekend. This one was pretty simple, too, since we just bought the pictures to put on the board. The title is also the title of a chorus I remember singing in Sunday school as a child and one that we have taught our Sunday school kids to sing.