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.