Creating classroom kindness bulletin boards is a wonderful way to promote empathy, positivity, and a sense of community among your students. Incorporating a kindness bulletin board into your classroom can be a simple yet effective way to create a more caring, inclusive, and positive learning environment that benefits both students’ social and emotional development and their academic success.

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Examples of Classroom Kindness Bulletin Boards

Here are some creative and meaningful bulletin board ideas centered around kindness:

“Choose Kindness” bulletin board: This colorful bulletin board has a ‘choose kindness’ header, a poster, and lots of heart cutouts.

“Kindness Rocks”: Provide students with paper cutouts of rocks and encourage them to write acts of kindness they’ve experienced or witnessed on the rocks. Arrange the rocks on the bulletin board to form a colorful, attention-grabbing display.

“Bucket Filling”: This teacher used buckets for students to write positive notes to each other and fill each others buckets with positive encouragement.

“Kindness Garden”: Design a garden-themed bulletin board with flowers and plants. Encourage students to write kind words or actions on paper flowers and add them to the garden, making it bloom with kindness. The header reads ‘Plant kindness and everybody grows together’.

“Compliment Corner”: Dedicate a section of your bulletin board to compliments. Encourage students to write compliments or affirmations for their classmates and display them in this corner.

“Kindness Challenge”: Create a bulletin board featuring a “Kindness Challenge” with different acts of kindness listed. Encourage students to take on these challenges and mark them off as they complete them.

“Kindness Tree”: Use this tree bulletin board with heart leaves. Have students write kind messages or deeds on the leaves and attach them to the tree, symbolizing the growth of kindness in the classroom. This bulletin board reads ‘Plant seeds of kindness and see what grows’.

“Random Acts of Kindness”: Showcase a list of random acts of kindness on your bulletin board. Encourage students to share when they’ve completed one of these acts or when they’ve been on the receiving end of one.

“Kindness Quotes”: Feature inspirational kindness quotes from famous personalities or literature. Add illustrations or student-created artwork to enhance the visual appeal.

“If you can’t find nice people, be one“: These are encouraging words to inspire students to practice kindness. The paper fans match the colors of the words perfectly.

“Kindness Chain”: Create a chain of paper links, with each link representing an act of kindness. Encourage students to add their own acts of kindness to the chain as they occur.

“Kindness Journal”: Design a bulletin board that has journal cutouts. Invite students to write or draw their daily acts of kindness or positive experiences.

Classroom Kindness Door Bulletin Boards

Use Positive Messages with a kindness banner at the top: This bulletin board set has a mixture of self esteem messages and classroom kindness messages.

Use a Classroom Kindness wall decal on Classroom door: This wall decal reads ‘In a world where you can be anything, be kind’. It stuck on well to this classroom door.

Theme Based Classroom Kindness Bulletin Boards

“Kindness leaves others encouraged”: This fall themed bulletin board can be used all year if you just change out the leaves and keep the letters in a neutral color like white. The teacher used a Fall tree set to make it, but you can use a tree that changes leaves for each season. The brand Schoolgirl Style, also has a bulletin board set that can go right on classroom walls or a bulletin board.This idea is great for a Fall theme or Spring theme. Leaf cutouts are used to play into the message.

Confetti Themed “Throw Kindness Around Like Confetti”: See more examples of this bulletin board idea in this confetti themed classroom decor blog post.

Classroom Kindness Bulletin BOards for Older Students

Make a simple Bulletin Board with lots of messages, but few images. This bulletin board suits a higher grade level classroom with its black and white message cutouts and simple colors.

Benefits of Classroom Kindness Bulletin Boards

Creating a classroom kindness bulletin board can have several significant benefits for both students and the overall classroom environment. Classroom Kindness Bulletin Boards are created to:

Promote a Positive Atmosphere: Kindness bulletin boards create a positive and welcoming classroom environment. When students see messages and reminders of kindness daily, it can help foster a more optimistic and friendly atmosphere.

Encourage Empathy: These boards encourage students to think about and practice empathy by recognizing the feelings and needs of others. When they read about acts of kindness, it can inspire them to be more considerate and understanding.

Strengthen Classroom Community: Kindness bulletin boards promote a sense of community and togetherness. They remind students that they are part of a caring and supportive classroom, which can boost their overall well-being.

Teach Important Life Skills: Promoting kindness and empathy in the classroom helps students develop important life skills such as effective communication, conflict resolution, and co-operation.

Reduce Bullying: A focus on kindness and empathy can contribute to a decrease in bullying and negative behaviors. Students are more likely to speak up against bullying when they are in a classroom that values kindness.

Enhance Social Skills: Kindness bulletin boards can prompt discussions about what kindness means and how to show it. This can lead to improved social skills, including better friendships and conflict resolution.

Boost Self-Esteem: Encouraging students to share acts of kindness they’ve experienced or performed can boost their self-esteem and self-worth. It shows them that their actions matter and can make a positive impact on others.

Encourage Accountability: When students see examples of kindness and positive behavior displayed on the bulletin board, it encourages them to hold themselves accountable for their actions and strive to be better individuals.

Inspire Acts of Kindness: The presence of the bulletin board can inspire students to perform acts of kindness, not only within the classroom but also outside of it. It can create a ripple effect of positivity.

Support Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): Kindness bulletin boards align with SEL initiatives, which are essential for students’ emotional development. They help students recognize and manage their emotions, make responsible decisions, and develop strong interpersonal skills.

Engage Parents and Guardians: Kindness bulletin boards can be a great conversation starter between students and their parents or guardians. It can prompt discussions at home about the importance of kindness and empathy.

Foster a Growth Mindset: Encouraging students to share their acts of kindness on the board reinforces the idea that kindness is something they can cultivate and improve upon, promoting a growth mindset.

Remember to involve your students in the creation and maintenance of the kindness bulletin board. This will not only make it more meaningful but also foster a sense of ownership and responsibility for promoting kindness within your classroom.

I hope this post has given you ideas for making classroom kindness bulletin boards. For making your bulletin boards stay up on cinder block walls, I have some helpful tips in this blog post.