Christmas Bulletin Boards | Student Writing & Holiday Crafts

Transform Your Bulletin Boards for the Holidays

Fireplace with stockings created from gift-wrapped boxes

Fireplace with Stockings — Honoring Cafeteria Staff

This entire setup was created from boxes covered with gift wrap. It was built to honor the school's cafeteria staff. This was a simple but meaningful gesture that the students helped create.

Don't Feed the Reindeer

Students enjoyed walking by this playful display every day throughout December.

Singing Reindeer

Wrapping paper makes a quick and colorful background — a tip worth remembering for any seasonal display.

Christmas Art Projects

Merry Christmas to All student snowy village scene

Merry Christmas to All — Snowy Village Scene

Students collaborated to build this snowy village from construction paper shapes. The houses were cut from rectangles, squares, and trapezoids, with stars, trees, and snowmen cut on the Ellison Die Cut Machine. Students colored and pasted small pieces of paper onto each shape before gluing everything onto the background.

Christmas Lights — Lift-the-Flap Writing Project

Christmas Lights

Students created descriptive paragraphs about Christmas lights, then tucked their writing inside lightbulb-shaped covers. Lifting the bulb reveals the writing underneath, making this display interactive for anyone who walks by.

Expanding the Lift-the-Flap Concept

The same lift-the-flap structure works for many shapes and writing types. Here are ways to extend it across the year:

Shape ideas

Stockings, reindeer, sleighs, or Christmas ornaments for December
Hearts for February, eggs for spring, leaves for fall
Any shape that connects to your current content area

Writing extension ideas

Multiple pages that flip like a book

Imagine a stocking shape with an entire story about a family's Christmas morning, beginning with seeing what Santa left, moving through opening gifts, and ending with discovering the small treasures in the stocking.

Students could also research seasonal topics and write short reports inside the shapes. Examples: the first Christmas tree, holiday customs in other countries, the origin of "elf on the shelf," or the hidden meaning behind a specific Christmas carol. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination.