Book inspired bulletin board

[ANemeskal]

This is my first year teaching at a literacy magnet and part of that is we publish books and do a lot to deal with reading. We also have to decorate our door based on a book of some kind. I am totally not creative or artistic and I'm stuck here. I teach 5th grade, so I'm assuming that a book in that grade level would be the best. Anyone have any fantastic ideas that they want to share? I would greatly appreciate any and all help I can get.

[Brit]

oh, cool! I could go a million different directions with this one!

so I guess step one would be to pick a book. Let's, just for fun, do "charlie and the Chocolate Factory". you could make the whole door a big golden ticket. See if you can find some gold-foil wrap, make it into a big ticket, and tape it on -- door's done. Then, inside, use styrofoam balls and cardboard tubes to make some big lollipops, and chuck them in bunches in the corners of the room (maybe tie them up with big ribbons). have an Umpa-loompa be the one listing the rules or whatever on one bulletin board. Do Hershey-bar label styled name tags for desks. get old posters/cardboard stand-ups from Blcokbuster or local movie theatres. Cut out the stuff you want to post around the room. oh, I'm having so much fun with this!!!!

Okay, another one: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (it's just getting a LITTLE dark in that book, not as bad as the later ones). you could make your door a cell door to Azkaban (brown craft paper with bars painted on) and have a dementor hovering outside the doorway (some black sheer fabric with a few wires under it to give it some shape). Put up some black or navy backing a bulletin board and do some spooky clouds and a moon in one top corner. Other boards could have brown paper with tattered edges to look like parchment. Stick a stuffed owl in a corner in a cage. buy some "every-flavoured" beans to hand out as prizes now and then.

Okay, gimme another book...I'll plan the door and the room. I've been keeping the doors simple, because, hey, who has time or artistic ability? Plus, then they're just teasers for the rest of the room. I LOVE this sort of thing. Just don't ask me to do the ACTUAL work.