If for safety reasons, you have to do your classroom decorating without putting paper on the walls, this means that you cannot hang up posters, bulletin boards, or any kind of cloth or paper based decorations on the classroom wall.

In many classroom districts, teachers try to have a fireproof classroom by avoiding having any decorations at all. They have nothing on the walls and do not hang any decorations from the classroom ceiling. They also avoid using ceiling light covers. All of this can make a classroom look really empty but I have found some decorations that aren’t exactly fireproof but they are not made of paper. I keep looking for fire resistant classroom decorations but I’m not sure that any are truly fire resistant.

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Classroom Decorating Without Putting Paper on the Walls

Make a peel-off bulletin board with clingy decals: If your classroom walls are painted in dry erase paint, you can put reusable ‘Clingy Thingies’ on the wall to make a bulletin board. Clingy thingies are cutouts that are not sticky to the touch, but they cling to smooth surfaces like whiteboards. This classroom wall has bright chalkboard clingy thingies with a matching clingy border trim. Amazon has a ton of other clingy thingies here.

Draw a mural on dry-erase walls: If you have dry erase walls in your classroom, use dry-erase markers to make a mural to match your classroom theme.

Put wall decals on your wall: Classrooom wall decals can be of beautiful images, motivational messages, or both. See more classroom wall decals in this blog post.

Put wall decals on the windows: This classroom windows can have decals to match the seasons or to show a positive message. The first picture has a positive affirmation decal in the classroom windows. The window in the second picture has fall themed decals. See more examples in this blog post.

Draw liquid chalk designs on glass windows and doors: Some classrooms have wall panels that are made of glass. You can draw simple seasonal elements on the glass walls and windows with colorful liquid chalk markers. This classroom wall has colorful snowflakes drawn on the glass panels.

I hope this has helped you get ideas for classroom decorating without putting paper on the walls.