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.

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.

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.

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.

Welcome to the Itty Bitty Class

This board was designed by my mom for her nursery class.

O Taste and See...

I found the idea for this board on a web site and purchased all materials at our local education store. The best part was one of the church ladies put it together for me while I was on vacation! : ) Simple and cute.

FROG (Fully Rely on God)

Again, one of our teachers found discounted stuff at our local education store. She wasn't sure how to turn frogs into something biblical, so I made the suggestion of "Fully Rely On God". She did a pretty good job changing it over and has another cute board for her Sunday school class.

Thank you for your service.

I just put this board up for Spring/Summer. I started by taking lots of pics. of church people at work day and then in various areas of service/ministry Sunday at church. Then Icompiled the pictures into "scrapbook pages". (One page is unfinished in this picture because I still haven't gotten a picture of the ushers). I bought the material at Joann's on sale. Buying material with fine lines is often helpful in keeping letters straight too! Next I found a ribbon border with bright and matching colors. Over all I like how the look turned out. This one will probably be up awhile since it's not seasonal. I have some other ideas for summer though so we'll see...

Let your light so shine...

One of our Sunday school teachers did this fun board. She was pretty excited to find the lighthouse, and wave border at our local education store in the clearance section. She often uses plastic table cloths as backgrounds which gives a variety of bright color at a great price. You can see, she hand wrote the verse Matthew 5:16 and then wrote the names of the children on the sailboats.

Jesus Loves the Little Ones (Nursery)

This was created for a church nursery, but it could be used for any Sunday school classroom. The background is light blue felt with green felt for grass. I used construction paper for flowers, leaves, sunshine and 2 butterflies. The little wooden turtle, lady bug, frog and pink butterfly came from the Wal-Mart craft department and were hot glued to the background.

Busy Bees

Here is a board that is fun to display with its different colors! But, more important is its reminder of things we should be busy about as Christians. On the bees buzzing around the different flowers are the names of the students in our Sunday school class, as well as our names as teachers. I printed the words of the grass strips on green paper, cut the tops for a grassy look, and laminated the part below for extra protection. There is other creative potential for this board, such as 3-D objects (flowers, insects, etc.), so have fun if you should ever use this idea!