Some of us remember the sheer delight and excitement we used to feel while entering the school library with its rows full of books and more books! The chairs, calm and serene aura, and the soft lights always welcomed us with open arms to escape into a world where you read not just to pass a test but to let your imagination fly to areas your feet cannot take you.
And right where we entered the library, was the library bulletin board that talked about the latest books to explore. Now, as the creative juices have started transforming every arena, the library bulletin board also has become much more dynamic and entertaining.
To help you keep pace with the latest trends, here are exciting library bulletin board ideas to help you personalize your bulletin board.
Library Bulletin Board Ideas
Who says a library bulletin board has to be all black, white, boring, and dull? A splash of colors can make the library a vibrant place to be in. Use colorful letter blocks to welcome everyone into the library, with even more vibrant buntings and polka dots. Mix this with the nostalgic scent of old books, and no one is going to want to leave the place again!
Words in themselves carry the wisdom of ages, and thus, books are the greatest treasure troves there are to discover! Depict this on your library bulletin with a paper trail leading to a treasure chest(or bucket) and books strewn around! This is sure to fire up the imagination of students, as well as depict the age-old wisdom of knowledge being the biggest wealth.
A library is a place where a restless soul becomes calm and serene. With a little papercraft and a good hand at origami, beautiful flowers on the library bulletin can depict a blooming imagination that is nurtured in the soil rich with books and learning!
If you wish to fly high in the success sky, books can be your magic carpet! Or even better, give you wings so that you can fly on your own. Depicting this with a book opening up to colorful butterflies escaping to the real world is an imaginative idea for a library bulletin board.
Books are where the real magic of the world is entrapped! So decorating your library bulletin board with magic hats and wands will give the reader a Harry Potter vibe and will transform your library into a mini Hogwarts!
If you are someone who always has his or her nose sunk in books, so much so that you have been named a reading owl, you will love this intelligent play with the words! After all, even a library bulletin board can have a sense of humor. And be sure to give your owl those huge round glasses just to complete the look!
The month of October is always immersed in the Halloween theme. So why not drench the library bulletin board with it too? A howling werewolf, some flying bats, a withered tree and a haunted house with an orange, full-moon sky will make your library all Halloween-ready and goosebump-friendly!
In continuation with the spooky spirit of Halloween, another creative idea would be to draw up pairs of spooky eyes peeping out of the dark from the branches of an old haunted tree. And just for a good measure, a witch on a broom in the background would be a nice touch. Scare them into reading more good ‘Boo’ks!!
If you are in for a comfy vibe, bags filled with books with a reading cat and flowers and rainbows all around sure can give major nostalgia attacks of that nice, summer evening on a beach. A good day to read a book?Always!
Books can help you travel through time, across geography, and beyond imagination. A beautiful library bulletin board illustrating this with directions and signs of your favorite lands depicted in books may want you to pick up some of these books again for a revisit!
A Wizard of Oz-themed library bulletin will transform the readers into magical worlds with the simple act of opening up the book. The Wizard of Oz characters can be depicted in black with a long road depicting this beautiful journey of starting a new story. You may never want to leave this magical land.
If you have any leftover characters from a previous book fair or bulletin boards, you can combine them all together to make a diverse universe where all of them have a unique ‘meet cute’!Now that is how to recycle, repeat, and renew and yet bring out such a beautiful display.
This is another example of a creative library bulletin board where you play with words to create a new meaning!’ Let’s taco bout books’ can be mixed and matched with books and lettuce, books and tomatoes, and books and tapioca sauce! Talk about hunger for books and feeling hungry for food at the same time!
Your library can open the world to you. Long before Google and YouTube spread their wings, the library was the place to gather the nuggets of knowledge. In this spirit, a library bulletin board depicting the wide range of topics present there written as book titles can open the eyes of students to the fact that they are entering the temple of knowledge, where the wisdom of ages is carefully preserved.
After a long school vacation, welcoming the students with a “books missed you” slogan is just the way to open their hearts to the warmth and comfort that books provide, whether you read them in one go or take small breaks in between. In fact, rather than taking vacations from books, it is better to take the books along on the vacation!
Some read the book and then are tempted to check out the movie based on it. And then some fall in love with the movie and then proceed to explore the book(Although frankly, 98 percent of the time, books trump the movies, just our humble opinion!)
For that latter sort of people, this library bulletin board will be an eye-opening revelation on how their favorite movies are inspired by books!
A library is not always a place for books. Sometimes, we have computers, puzzles, chess boards, Uno games, and much more. If you are associated with such a library, display it on the library bulletin board with pride. After all, the library is the place where all your doubts start melting away and is instead filled up with curiosity and thirst for lifelong learning!
They say you cannot live without air, food, or life. Well, if you are a book lover, you have to add it as the fourth item on the essential list as well! To commemorate Valentine’s month, let’s put up a library bulletin board that is our labor of love as well. A giant 3D book adds a beautiful touch to it and small heart cutouts give it a festive feel of feverish romance
How can you miss the Harry Potter theme when you think of new library bulletin ideas?? You can also put a book lover’s photo on the wall, each one if they have, say, read the most number of books, written excellent reviews, or discovered and recommended a hidden, beautiful treasure of a long forgotten book. Decorate it with symbols of the four houses, and maybe start a friendly competition on who gets to be on the Hogwarts wall.
Wrapping up,
The library bulletin boards are an excellent source for igniting the imagination of students and transforming it into a passion for books. And when you get them hooked on books, it brings about a life-changing transformation when you can never be alone and life becomes a long and delightful learning journey.
And remember, it all started with your unique library bulletin board idea!!
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