These are time-saving bulletin board tips for teachers to quickly change up their bulletin boards during the school term. This can be to reflect seasonal or monthly themes, or to match the curriculum as it is being discovered and taught. The act of peeling off tape and reapplying it for new cards can be very tedious.  Did you know that you can hang up your bulletin board letters and cutouts without using any tape or adhesives? Magnetic bulletin boards and clothesline bulletin boards allow you to easily hang up and change out cutouts without needing to use any tape.

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Time-Saving Bulletin Board Tips

Make an instant bulletin board quickly with letter garlands: Use letter garlands on bulletin boards to make an instant bulletin board. A teacher used this ‘Wlcome Back’ letter garland as a fast bulletin board. It would look just fine as a banner above a board in in the hallway, but in a pinch, you can use it in a bulletin board like she did. Just staple up the ends and spread out the cutouts and Ta-Da, instant board!

Magnetic bulletin boards are better for moving around interactive pieces. Magnetic whiteboards and magnetic paper rolls are good bases for these bulletin boards. Use magnetic tape only once on the back of the small cards and letters for students to easily add, remove, and move them around on the bulletin board. After you put the magnetic tape on the cards, you never have to peel it off to reapply it again (unlike regular tapes).

Make a corkboard bulletin board: Corkboards that come with frames make beautiful lightweight bulletin boards that you can move around. Cardstock bulletin boards need to be taped to the wall, but a corkboard bulletin board frame just needs to be hung up. This is one of the best time-saving bulletin board tips that you’ll find. The best thing about corkboard bulletin boards is that you can easily add and remove cutouts and posters from it with push pins.

Use felt wall tiles on your bulletin board: Felt boards work like a corkboard in that you can just use push pins on them to add and move around headings, posters, and cards on them. The teacher that used them said that the felt boards were durable and easy to place where you want them. The color is bold, not faded and looks like it will hold up well over time. See more felt board bulletin boards here.

Hang letter headers from clothespins: This teacher used black clothespins to fasten the pennants to the strip. With so much black on black, the white of the letters really pop. Most importantly, the headers are easy to change out without needing any tape.

Use a clothesline to hang posters: This makes taking down and putting up bulletin board letters and posters really easy. All you need is twine and wooden clothespins.

Use background papers with lines on them for letters to line up neatly: If you are very particular about having a neat bulletin board, this is going to be one of the best time-saving bulletin board tips for you. Have your letter cutouts line up to be perfectly horizontal by sticking them to rest on the lines of a lined background paper.

Make a backdrop bulletin board: I have saved the best of the time-saving bulletin board tips for last. All you need to make the quickest bulletin board is a photo backrop, tapestry, or party poster. A self adhesive one is even better. A teacher made this bulletin board for her Hogwarts classroom. All she needed was a whiteboard and this wizard party backdrop to make an instant bulletin board. Find lots of back to school backdrop bulletin boards in this blog post.

I must mention that for the bulletin board base, that is the background paper, and the border trims, they may need to be taped down unless they are magnetic. The key is to find the right tape that sticks-on well, holds up heavy items, and peels off cleanly when you want to remove it. I have some tape recommendations in this blog post to help with that.

Do you have your own time-saving bulletin board tips to share? If you have, please share about them in the comments. Teachers are the ones who innovate and think up the most creative solutions for their classrooms.