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. : )