12 Weather-Themed Bulletin Boards Ideas for Preschool Classrooms
Morning circle time at preschool typically includes short conversations about the day’s weather. Children love turning into mini meteorologists, reporting on the sunshine, rain, or snow they see from their classroom window.
Weather-themed bulletin boards can supplement those morning discussions. From interactive boards that invite the children’s participation to academic boards that function as an extension of instruction, here are 12 different weather themed bulletin board ideas that provide fantastic visuals for the preschool classroom.
What’s the Weather Like Today?
This design helps answer the question, “What’s the weather like today?” From rainbows to snowflakes to wind, this colorful weather themed bulletin board for preschool classrooms includes a few 3D pieces, making it informative and interesting to look at.
Usher in cooler temperatures with a sweater weather theme. Teachers can’t decide what they love most about this one: that the work is already done for them courtesy of the pre-made bulletin board materials or that they can use students’ faces to personalize the adorable sweaters!
Here is a springtime bulletin board that piggybacks off the popular expression, “April showers bring May flowers.” This design is a visual explanation of how the rainy weather aids in growing colorful flowers.
With the help of a familiar face, Disney character Olaf, kids learn about snowy, windy, stormy, rainy, sunny, and cloudy weather. This bulletin board is all homemade using materials like cotton balls for clouds and finger-painted accessories.
Interactive Weather Bulletin Boards
This dress for the weather pre-made bulletin board includes the four seasons, all weather possibilities, and, unlike other things in the classroom, it welcomes the children to touch it! Tiny hands have so much fun dressing the characters appropriately for the day’s weather.
Children learn how to identify and spell different weather by singing a new song to the tune of Bingo. This musical bulletin board also comes with display sheets for the different kinds of weather as well as Sign Language symbols for each letter.
This could either be the greatest weather bulletin board of all time, or a fantastically creative stand-alone project. No matter how it’s used in the classroom, it’s sure to be a showstopper. The giant tufts of cotton and recycled bottle caps capture the visual of a cloudy, rainy day perfectly. Consider the option of adding a rainbow to elevate the design and the weather!
Children help color the individual parts of this bulletin board design. Each snowflake, storm cloud, sunshine, rainbow, and rain droplet comes with giant wiggle eyes lending some personality to the weather.
Instructional Weather Bulletin Boards
Focusing solely on types of precipitation, this science lesson can easily be turned into a weather themed bulletin board for a preschool classroom. Children will learn about rain, sleet, hail, and snow.
Here is another example of how instructional materials on weather can be repurposed as a bulletin board theme. A few great options exist within this lesson. A bulletin board dedicated to extreme weather teaches children about rare, short-lived conditions like tornadoes and hurricanes. Another instructional option is to focus on season-specific weather, where children learn about what weather they should expect in each of the four seasons.
If a pre-made, fully customizable weather bulletin board with several title options sounds amazing, check out this editable theme from Etsy. This particular design includes aesthetic details like borders and fonts as well as instructional pieces like charts and vocabulary cards.
Although graphing and charting information are typically seen as higher-level skills, preschoolers are certainly capable of learning the basics. Daily and weekly weather trackers are a nice way to introduce kids to inputting scientific data. There are even correlating student worksheets to help them practice making predictions.
Children enjoy learning about the weather because it’s something that directly and immediately affects them. Understanding how to dress appropriately, determining whether or not they can play outside, and even looking to the sky to predict impending weather are all skills they will use for a lifetime.
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About the Author:
Stephanie Jankowski is an educator and author who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When she's not teaching or writing, she's spending time with her children, Brady, Ella, and Lyla, and marveling at just how short the years really are.