November Bulletin Board Ideas

Poetry is Like a Feast for the Mind

I did this board as a follow up to a unit on similes and metaphors in a fifth grade class.  I had the students write a short simile/metaphor poem about their favorite Thanksgiving food on a circle sized to fit inside small paper plates. I then cut out the circles and glued them to small Thanksgiving paper plates I bought at a dollar store.  I used large pieces of construction paper to make place mats, which I had the children decorate with Thanksgiving stickers and stamps.  I hot-glued the plates, along with plastic utensils and paper napkins and paper cups to the place mats to create individual table settings.  I decorated the bulletin board to look like a table by covering it with a paper Thanksgiving theme tablecloth (I let the bottom edges hang down like a real table cloth would.)  Then I arranged the place mats around the edge of the bulletin board so that it looked like a real table setting.  In the center I put larger paper plates with pictures of holiday food cut from magazines on them and I made a centerpiece using a picture of a cornucopia.  Above the board I hung a banner made of two table runners sewn together, that read ,"Poetry is Like a Feast for the Mind."  I made the lettering from felt, which I glued on with Tacky glue.
Submitted by: Brandilee Chacon - Bath, South Carolina

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