Back to school classroom decorations help to create an exciting atmosphere in the classroom for students. Whether students are starting a new school or starting a new grade, school themed decorations that have words of welcome printed clearly are what teachers use to decorate their classroom for back to school.

Think about creating a colorful entryway that instantly greets your students with excitement. It could be a bulletin board that says “Welcome to Our Class” or a door display filled with bright patterns and cheerful messages. First impressions matter, and your decorations can help students feel at ease from the moment they walk in.

I love to find awesome classroom decor ideas. As an Amazon affiliate, I may earn a commission for purchases using my links. The ideas and paid links below are based on Amazon finds that are beautiful back to school classroom decorations. These are ideas I got from other teachers and if they work for other classrooms, they could work for yours too.

Back to School Classroom Decorations for Bulletin Boards and Walls – Garlands

Welcome Back Apple themed garland: This is a pair of garlands for your classroom wall, or over your door or whiteboard. One garland says ‘welcome’ and the other says ‘back’. There are red apple cutouts on the ends and the letters have a chalk on chalkboard style, which is perfect for back to school. The secone garland over the whiteboard can be found here.

Welcome Back pennants: These black and white welcome back pennants can be hung from the classroom ceiling as they are in the picture. The set also comes with swirly hanging back to school themed cutouts.

Back to school welcome back to school garland on bulletin board: This is a super cute set to help accessorize an empty classroom for back-to-school. It is pre-strung and has an apple in the middle of each string.

Welcome back pencil garland on bulletin board: This garland comes on a very long string so that you can move the letters and buses back and forth on the string, in case you need them closer or further apart. 

Back to school garland of color pencils: The picture only shows the letters but the garland also has swirly hanging cutouts attatched. The banner design with pencil shapes spelling out “BACK TO SCHOOL” is colorful, fun, and eye-catching.

Everyone Is Welcome garland: A seventh grade teacher used this letter garland in her classroom because she did not want to have one with bright colors. It has a heart between each word.

Here’s to a New School Year garland: This pre-strung garland is perfect for back-to-school parties and classrooms.

Back to School Backdrops for Wall decorations

Back to School Photo Backdrops: Make a large hallway display with a back-to-school photo backdrop surrounded by foil balloons, and regular balloons. The second backdrop was decorated with this large balloon garland.

Back to school wide banner for school hallway: A teacher hung up this banner for back to school night.

Back to school notebook page backdrop for classrooms: This notebook page backdrop is borderd with balloons and inflatable pencil decorations.

Back to School Tapestries for Wall Decorations

Boho themed Welcome Back tapestry: This tapestry was hung up with matching boho balloons to welcome the students back to school. It has a positive self-esteem message printed on it.

Welcome back to school tapestry: This is a large and sturdy classroom tapestry. It has grommets on each corner for you to string it up. See more back to school tapestries in this blog post.

Back to School Class Coloring Murals

Have students work together on a class coloring poster: Choose a back-to-school themed collaborative mural for students to color in the week of school.

More Back to School Classroom Decorations

Hanging apple and pencil garlands from classroom ceiling: This teacher hung garlands from a pack of four pre-strung garlands.

More ideas for making back to school classroom decorations will be added as I find them. Have I missed any that you have tried? If you have an idea to share, I’d love to read about it in the comments.

See ideas for decorating school hallways in this blog post, and find school yard decorations here.

You can use classroom decorations that have the welcome back to school message on them such as garlands, pennants, posters, door covers, bulletin board sets, and party backdrops. See lots of ideas making back to school bulletin boards in this blog post.