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🏫 Best Bulletin Board Supplies & School Volunteer Must-Haves
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items If you’ve ever looked at an empty school bulletin board and thought, “I could do something REALLY cool with that,” welcome. 😂🎨
These are my favorite bulletin board supplies, school volunteer essentials, art materials and decorating tools for turni...
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📌 Best Bulletin Board Paper, Borders & Background Supplies
✂️ Cardstock, Paper & Cutting Supplies
🔤 Best Lettering Supplies for Bulletin Boards & Signs
🧷 Best Adhesives for Bulletin Boards & School Displays
✨ Supplies for 3D Bulletin Boards & Giant Displays
💚 Mental Health, Kindness & Affirmation Display Supplies
📌 Best Bulletin Board Paper, Borders & Background Supplies
One giant roll can instantly turn a sad bulletin board into an actual BACKGROUND. I especially love bright colors because obviously we’re not creating a corporate conference room here.
Better Than Paper® Bulletin Board Roll – Teal, 1 Roll
Great when you’re covering a big board and want something smoother and sturdier than trying to piece together seventeen sheets of construction paper.
MarbleBulletin Board Paper
Borders are basically eyeliner for bulletin boards. 😂 Technically optional, but suddenly everything looks much more finished once they’re there.
Bulletin Board Trim & Borders
Simple enough to work with almost any theme, and layering two colors makes a board look way more elaborate than the amount of effort involved.
Bulletin Board Borders
Fabric is awesome if you’re decorating a board that stays up long-term. It doesn’t wrinkle and tear as easily as paper, and you can reuse it.
Bulletin Board Fabric Roll
✂️ Cardstock, Paper & Cutting Supplies
If you’re making letters, flowers, signs, characters or anything that needs to stand up instead of sadly flopping over, cardstock wins.
Bright Colored Cardstock Paper
The COLORS. 🌈 Perfect for kindness projects, affirmation displays and anything where boring printer paper simply will not do.
Astrobrights Colored Paper, 24 lbs., 8.5" x 11", Assorted ...
I keep finding reasons to need poster board. Signs, giant characters, backgrounds, props… buy the multipack and save Future You the emergency store run.
Poster Boards for Presentations and Projects
When regular poster board isn’t dramatic enough. Foam board is perfect for giant letters, dimensional decorations and pieces you want to actually stand up.
Custom Hard Back Photo Poster Board Printing
Once you’re cutting 40 straight pieces of paper, scissors suddenly become your enemy. A paper trimmer saves SO much time.
Guillotine Paper Cutters and Rotary Trimmers for Crafts
For tiny details and awkward shapes where scissors basically say, “Good luck with that.”
Precision Hobby Knife
Protect the table because explaining why you’ve carved a motivational quote directly into somebody’s furniture is awkward.
Rhino Self-Healing Cutting Mats - SpeedPress Sign Supply
🔤 Best Lettering Supplies for Bulletin Boards & Signs
For those of us who start writing a title confidently and realize halfway through that the last word is absolutely not going to fit. 😂 Stencils prevent crimes against spacing.
Extra Large Size; 48" - 72" - 96" Stencil Sets & Kits
Sometimes I love hand lettering. Sometimes I have 87 other things to do. Pre-cut letters understand.
Punch Out Letters for Bulletin Boards
One of my forever craft favorites. Amazing for outlining letters, adding details and turning plain signs into something that actually POPS.
posca 3M Fine Point Acrylic Paint Markers
Thick black outlines can rescue almost anything. When a piece feels unfinished, I outline it and suddenly everybody thinks I knew what I was doing.
Sharpie Ultra Fine Tip Permanent Markers, 12 Black
Perfect for little gold or silver accents when a display needs something extra but you’re not emotionally prepared to involve glitter.
Metallic Paint Pens
🧷 Best Adhesives for Bulletin Boards & School Displays
One of my favorite temporary options because school walls are not the place to discover your adhesive has chosen violence.
Scotch® Painter's Tape, Dispensers & Pre-Taped Painter's ...
Great for larger pieces when tape starts acting like it has never encountered gravity before.
Poster Strips for Damage-Free Hanging
SO useful for little signs, paper pieces and temporary displays. Keep some in your supply stash.
Gorilla Glue Mounting Putty 84 Pre-Cut Squares, 2 Ounces
Tiny invisible heroes. Especially useful when you’re assembling paper decorations and don’t want wet glue everywhere.
Glue Dots
Clean, quick and especially good for layering paper pieces where you don’t want tape showing.
Double Sided Tape for Mounting and Crafting
These are fantastic when part of the display needs to be removable or interchangeable.
Adhesive Velcro Dots for Home Improvement
Nothing glamorous here. You simply do not want to discover you’re out of staples halfway through decorating a giant board.
Staplers
✨ Supplies for 3D Bulletin Boards & Giant Displays
Giant flowers, fringe, texture, crumpled backgrounds… tissue paper can take up a LOT of visual space without costing a fortune.
Assorted Tissue Paper Value Pack by Celebrate It
Cheap, colorful and surprisingly versatile. Twist it, fringe it, layer it, turn it into flowers or use it for giant rainbow effects.
Crepe Paper Streamers Ceiling
Perfect when you want translucent color, fake windows, shiny effects or anything that needs that little “WAIT, WHAT DID YOU USE FOR THAT?” detail.
Cello Sheets, Size: 8.5" x 11"
Before buying expensive materials, check your cardboard pile. Giant props and 3D pieces can start life as an innocent shipping box.
Corrugated Sheets for Office Supplies
Great for raised letters and little dimensional details without adding much weight.
Packing & Craft Foam Sheets
Is this an essential educational supply?
I’m going to say yes.
Put giant googly eyes on a brain, monster, flower or random motivational character and suddenly kids are looking at the board. 😂
Googly Eyes
💚 Mental Health, Kindness & Affirmation Display Supplies
One of my absolute favorites. Affirmations, kindness messages, interactive displays, little reminders… tiny pieces of paper can carry surprisingly big messages.
Post-it® Super Sticky Notes | 3M United States
I especially like BLANK ones because you can write messages that actually fit your students, school or project instead of using generic quotes.
Free Printable Affirmation Cards for Self-Love
Perfect for displaying student artwork, affirmation cards, photos or messages while adding a cute little dimensional detail.
Crafter's Square Mini Clothespins, 50-ct. Packs
Cheap, sturdy and fantastic for writing messages that you want students to actually pick up and read.
Colored Index Cards for Notes and Study
Tiny detail, tons of possibilities. Great for interactive displays and organizing supplies too.
Sticky Tabs for Office and School Use
🛡️ Laminating & Making Everything Survive Children
Once you start making school displays regularly, a laminator becomes dangerously satisfying. Suddenly you’re laminating things nobody asked you to laminate.
Laminators & Laminating Supplies
Buy more than you think you’ll need because owning a laminator apparently creates an uncontrollable desire to preserve EVERYTHING.
Laminating Pouches and Sheets for Office Use
Great when you only have a few smaller pieces and don’t feel like dragging out the laminator.
Laminating Pouches and Sheets for Office Use
🗃️ Organizing the Craft Explosion
Clear is important because if I can’t SEE a craft supply, apparently my brain decides I don’t own it and buys another one.
Clear Storage Bins with Lids | Plastic, Stackable & Portable
Markers, scissors, tape, glue and whatever else you’re constantly carrying from one side of the school to the other. Toss it in and GO.
Craft Caddy Organizers for Arts and Sewing
One for adhesives, one for markers, one for tiny pieces. Suddenly the bottom of your bag is no longer an archaeological excavation.
Zipper Pouches
Perfect for keeping cardstock, templates, unfinished pieces and printed materials from becoming one enormous crumpled paper ecosystem.
Accordion Organizers for Document Storage
🎨 PTO Art Show & School Event Supplies
Table covering, backdrop, decoration, giant art surface… inexpensive rolls can solve a surprising number of event problems.
Plastic Table Rolls
Especially useful when lots of kids are rotating through an art station and you don’t want cleanup to become your new full-time job.
Artist Painting Palettes
School events are NOT the time to hand 50 children your precious artist brushes. 😂 Get the bulk pack.
Paint Brushes - Bulk - Wholesale
Paint + children + nice clothes is a mathematical equation I don’t want to solve.
Disposable Aprons
Giant dice can turn an ordinary art activity into a game. Give each number a color, drawing prompt, art style or challenge and let the chaos decide.
Jumbo Dice in Dice, Set of 12
Stickers are practically elementary-school currency. Perfect for art stations, rewards, decorating and kindness projects.
Stickers and Sticker Books for Kids