Emphasizing the involvement and cooperation of all children in the classroom, this guide to making creative bulletin board displays for every holiday and season is an indispensable tool for any classroom teacher. These projects stress children's involvement by having them add to the final project by contributing a part that they have made themselves. Forty-six projects, which include a creative "Hands Across America" flag using cutouts of each student's hands and a giant fishbowl using crayon resist and watercolors, introduce children to various kinds of art media. Children will be thrilled to look at the bulletin boards and know that they were instrumental in their creation, and educators will appreciate the help in creating them. Also included are teaching objectives and materials needed.
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Karen Robbins is the author of Year 'Round Holiday Crafts, which has sold more than 116,000 copies, and God Made Everything and God Made Everything Just Right. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
As an elementary teacher, I believed that bulletin boards should be made by my students and not me! I wrote Big Bulletin Boards with this concept in mind. Most of the boards within my book have been successfully constructed by students. Children will be introduced to 23 different forms of art mediums; while developing creativity and building self esteem. The boards are quick, easy, fun and creative for both boys and girls. What a wonderful way to teach cooperative learning! Big Bulletin Boards: A Cooperative Approach was previously published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. selling over 16,000 copies. I revised the book and released the Second Edition in 2001 under Hide and Seek Press. I hope you have fun making BIG bulletin boards with your students! I sure did and they became the "talk of the school."! *Note: This is a great book especially for beginning teachers, preschool/elementary teachers or librarians.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
This book is a radically different approach to bulletin board construction. It is perfect for elementary school aged children in any context (school, daycare, libraries, etc.). The cooperative approach means that each child in the group creates a special piece of the bulletin board. Then, the child sees how her/his piece contributes to the objects that make up the bulletin board. For example, each child creates an individual snowflake that the teacher then assembles into a snowman for a winter bulletin board. The child experiences a group of people working individually and collectively toward a group goal, much the same way the classroom should function.
Whereas other bulletin board books come with templates to create myriad identical bulletin boards, this book gives clear, detailed instructions for creating bulletin boards unique to the children and teacher of a class. There are four bulletin board projects for each month of the school year. Yet, most importantly, this book provides ideas and directions that teachers can use to invent new bulletin board projects that are meaningful to her/his group of students. Lastly, the materials list for each bulletin board consists of normal elementary school art supplies or materials that children can easily bring from home.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I LOVE this book! I used it all last year and my colleagues were always exclaiming over our finished projects. The ideas matched a lot of my theme units. And each page comes with a great illustration for those of us who are visual learners. The best part is that the teacher has a very small role in the making of classroom displays (other than pinning student's creations to the wall). The students have complete artistic control!
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Big Bulletin Boards: A Cooperative Approach
Lots of ideas for putting kids names on the board. Kids seem to enjoy seeing their name "up in lights" and this book has great ideas for that.
Published on August 28, 2005 by M. Fierge
Great resource for new and experienced teachers!
A book obviously written by a teacher. Ideas are clear for students to understand and assemble. One page directions with materials easy to find and prepare. Read more
Published on February 3, 2002 by Raejean Spencer
A "Must Have" for a Teacher's Library
Now and then, you have to invest in a book that pays big dividends in time and creative energy for you, as a teacher. Read more
Published on September 23, 2001 by L.R. Lenz
Innovative projects for kids
This is a fun book filled with creative craft activities for children. Kids can celebrate the seasons and see their artwork displayed in the classroom, library, etc. Read more
Published on August 6, 2001
Fun - Creative - Needed
The cooperative approach for making classroom bulletin boards means that kids are the ones making them!! That means they will like them and look at them and enjoy them. Read more
Published on August 6, 2001
Let the Kids do the Work (and the fun)
Robbins has come up with a great idea for creating bulletin boards that classrooms need, and kids ultimately enjoy. She suggests the involvement of children in creating ( !! Read more
Published on August 6, 2001 by LoveKids LoveArt
student- centered,creative approach to bulletin boards
I appreciate that the ideas for Karen's bulletin boards because:1) Each bulletin board is by month thru' out the year;2) The ideas allow for student creativity within the bigger... Read more
Published on August 2, 2001 by Mary Nelson
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