If you want to decorate your classroom for Thanksgiving, I’ve got some Thanksgiving bulletin board ideas for you to try. This will be a growing collection of Thanksgiving bulletin boards. There will be lots of cut-outs of turkeys and harvest dishes. The main color you would need is brown but you can add other complementary colors to it like yellow and orange. A little bit of burgundy or maroon blends well too.

I love to find awesome teacher-created uses for classroom resources. As an Amazon affiliate, I may earn a commision for purchases using my links. The ideas and paid links below are based on Amazon finds that are great for making Thanksgiving bulletin boards.

‘Thankful For’ Thanksgiving Bulletin Boards

One of the most popular Thanksgiving bulletin board ideas is to have the words ‘we are thankful for’ or ‘be thankful for’ on your bulletin board. See examples below.

What Are You Thankful For bulletin board: On this bulletin board, the teacher had the kids write what they were thankful for on the turkey feathers.

‘Thankful for Our Friends’ bulletin board: This Thanksgiving bulletin board has pictures of the students in class. I love the elements of a pumpkin gargen used: pumpkins printed out on orange paper, leaf cut outs, the picket fence border trim, and the orange polka dot border trim.

‘We Have a Latte to Be Thankful For’ Thanksgiving Bulletin Board: This bulletin board uses Thanksgiving themed colors and it has letter cutouts, two flag banners, sixteen different maple leaf cutouts, coffee cup cutouts, a border trim, and glue dots.

Thankful Bulletin board: This ‘Be Thankful For…’ Thanksgiving bulletin board uses these acorn and turkey cut-outs.

This ‘We Are Thankful’ bulletin board set is a complete kit that you can use to make an easy Thanksgiving themed classroom bulletin board.

‘Thankful for My Little Turkeys’ bulletin board: This bulletin board set makes a cute kindergarten or first grade Thanksgiving bulletin board. Add photos of your students’ faces to go on the turkey cutouts.

‘Thankful Tree’ Thanksgiving Bulletin Board Ideas

This teacher made an ‘I Am Thankful For…’ tree and students wrote their thankful notes on the leaves.

This is another thankful tree made with this heart-leaf tree bulletin board set.

Thanksgiving Groovy tree Bulletin board: This Thankful Vibes bulletin board has a Groovy theme and a large tree cutout was added to it.

Thanksgiving Gratitude Bulletin boards

In Our Gratitude Era Thanksgiving Bulletin Board: A teacher made this bulletin board from scratch. I just created a cute printable ‘In Our Gratitude Era’ bulletin board version that you can use here.

Thanksgiving Gratitude Bulletin Board: This teacher-made bulletin board has the heading ‘Ways to Show Gratitude’. The teacher added examples and added a border trim.

‘Wall of Gratitude’ bulletin board: I love the colors used on this thanksgiving wall of gratitude bulletin board. Each student got to write about what he or she was grateful for on a cut out.

Harvest Thanksgiving Bulletin Board

Thanksgiving bulletin boards can highlight harvest time.

‘Harvest Time’ bulletin board: These Fall and pumpkin accents by Carson Dellosa were used to make this harvest time bulletin board.

Thanksgiving November bulletin board: This bulleton board was created with these Thanksgiving cutouts and letter cutouts for November.

Turkey Thanksgiving Bulletin Board Ideas

Turkeys are the mascots of Thanksgiving and they are usually the mascots of Thanksgiving bulletin boards. The use of a large turkey being the main decoration is one of the most common Thanksgiving bulletin board ideas that teachers use.

Gobble Up Some Football bulletin boards: This football themed bulletin board set is a great addition to the classroom for fall or thanksgiving. It is hard to find elementary classroom decor that is little more ‘masculine’, but this is perfect for a male teacher who loves football.

Thanksgiving Thankful Bulletin Board with Turkey: The first bulletin board has a large turkey cutout with tiny pictures of the students along the turkey’s tail. I could not find the source of this bulletin board. It might be a DIY Thanksgiving bulletin board. The second bulletin board is very similar and it was created from this set.

Fall in Love with Learning Thanksgiving Bulletin Board with paper plate turkeys: This bulletin board was created with set like this, turkey crafts, and this border trim.

Thanksgiving Classroom Doors

‘Give Thanks’ Thanksgiving classroom door: This bulletin board for doors is ready-made. You can also make a Thanksgiving door design from scratch like this turkey door above.

Fall leaf Thankful Tree thanksgiving classroom door: The tree and leaves on this door were used from this fall leaf cutout set. This fall leaf border trim was added. There are leaf circle frames with turkey cutouts for students’ names. The students’ pictures will be added to the frames.

See the full list of Thanksgiving themed classroom Door designs in this blog post.

Happy Thanksgiving Bulletin Board

Happy Thanksgiving bulletin Board: This bulletin board set has lots of cutouts of Thanksgiving food and fall leaves.

‘Happy Thanksgiving Gnomies’ Thanksgiving Bulletin Board: I love the colors and layout of this bulletin board.

Happy Thanksgiving bulletin board with turkey in bright colors: The teacher that put up this bulletin board shares a tip for assembling the turkey. She says to place the body first, then tuck the fan behind the turkey when putting it up.

Happy Thanksgiving bulletin board with turkey and letter garland: Recreate this look with the turkey and leaf cutouts from this bulletin board set, and this garland.

Give Thanks Bulletin Boards for Thanksgiving

Having the words ‘Give Thanks’ or ‘Give Thanks Everyday’ reminds us that everyday should be treated as Thanksgiving. This is one of the most popular Thanksgiving bulletin board ideas I’ve seen.

Give Thanks turkey bulletin board for Thanksgiving: I like the expression of the turkey’s face. It remids me of the chickens in the Chicken Run movie! Everything you see in the picture came from this set.

Give Thanks Thanksgiving Bulletin Board with DIY turkey: These Thanksgiving cutouts were used to decorate this bulletin board.

Give Thanks Everyday bulletin board for thanksgiving: Make a 3D turkey with this bulletin board. I love how this turkey ‘pops’ off the board. The turkey and other graphics are made out of sturdy cardstock, which keeps it from easily bending. The graphics are rich in color, can be used for Thanksgiving and other things as well. The turkey feathers are made from colorful paper fans, when assembled give a 3-D look. The fourth bulletin board was created from this set.

‘Be Grateful and Give Thanks’ thankgiving bulletin board: I like the Fall colors on this bulletin board.

More Thanksgiving Bulletin Boards

‘Have a Handy Dandy Thanksgiving’ Thanksgiving Bulletin board: This set comes with handprint cutouts but your students can stamp their own handprints on it.

“You Better BeLEAF We’re Thankful” bulletin board: This is a great bulletin board set for the month of November. The pieces are colorful and printed on sturdy cardstock. 

Give Thanks Everyday happy turkey Thanksgiving bulletin board with warm colors: I like the very happy turkey in this bulletin board.

30 Days of Thankfulness Thanksgiving bulletin board: This bulletin board is so cute for the holiday season and it has a wonderful message. This doesn’t have to be used on a full size board, as the pieces are pretty small, but would be perfect for about half the size of a normal board. 

Thanksgiving themed Classroom Decor Accents

Thanksgiving classroom decor accents can be paper lanterns, turkey cutouts, and buntings. The typical thanksgiving classroom color theme is brown, yellow, and orange. Changing your color scheme to these colors is one of the most simple, yet effective, Thanksgiving bulletin board ideas.

A large turkey cutout for bulletin boards and classoom walls: This turkey bulletin board set comes with the turkey cutout in separate pieces, and leaf cutouts. It can add some lovely color to any classroom.

A Large Thanksgiving turkey cutout for classroom window: This is a large printed paper turkey cutout that also comes with smaller cutouts of leaves and pumpkins.

I like these Thanksgiving paper lanterns for decorating the classroom.

A thanksgiving turkey craft can be made into a bulletin board display. Students can write what they are thankful for on the feathers, then stick them to the turkey. This craft has turkey cut-outs and feathers that are made of thick, good quality paper and the feathers come in a wide variety of nice colors that complement each other.

I like these Thanksgiving bulletin board cut-outs of leaves, acorns, and turkeys.

This Thanksgiving paper fan bulletin board has both fans and matching cut-outs.

These letter cut outs were used for this ‘Give Thanks’ classroom bulletin board for Thanksgiving.

Use a Thanksgiving garland over your classroom door or your whiteboard. I found another ‘Give Thanks’ banner that has swirly cutouts hanging from it.

More Stuff for Your Thanksgiving Classroom

I hope you have found Thanksgiving bulletin board ideas for your classroom through this post. More will be added soon.

Collaborative coloring posters can be used as bulletin boards. See some Thanksgiving collaborative coloring posters in this blog post.

You may also be interested in Thanksgiving themed printables. I created some ELA printables for this theme here.

Every item here is a downloadable file that you would get instant access to upon purchase.

You might like my Thanksgiving joke book for your students. It has funny but kind jokes that are clean and safe for children. I have found that many joke books out there are NOT for kids. I want to provide safe joke books for children in different themes. This Thanksgiving one is available on Amazon in a paperback or a Kindle version. 

Happy Thanksgiving!