April Bulletin Board Ideas for Preschool & Kindergarten Classrooms

When creating or displaying a preschool or kindergarten classroom bulletin board, you want it to be fun, inspiring and educational. Check out our April bulletin board idea for preschool:

April bulletin board ideas for preschool and kindergarten classrooms to teach children.

1. “April Showers Bring May Flowers”

📌 Theme: Rain, clouds, and blooming flowers
🖍 Materials:

  • Blue background paper
  • Cotton balls for fluffy clouds
  • Raindrop cutouts
  • Colorful paper flowers
    🌟 Activity: Each child decorates a raindrop with their name, a drawing, or something they love about spring. Arrange the raindrops falling from the clouds onto a garden of flowers.

🌧️ April Bulletin Board Idea: “April Showers Bring May Flowers”

Theme: Spring Weather & Growth
Focus Areas: Seasons, weather, plants, fine motor skills, name recognition

🎨 Design Concept

Create a springtime scene with rain clouds, raindrops, and blooming flowers. Use blue paper for the background and cotton for fluffy clouds. Add paper umbrellas, boots, and puddles for extra detail.

🌼 Student Involvement

  • Raindrops: Each child can cut out and decorate a raindrop with their name or something they’ve learned.

  • Flowers: Create colorful flowers with petals labeled with each student’s name or sight words.

  • Umbrellas: Let each child design their own umbrella and decorate it with patterns or stickers.

📘 Educational Connections

  • Weather: Teach about rain, clouds, and the changing seasons.

  • Literacy: Use petals for sight words or raindrops for letter/sound recognition.

  • Science: Discuss how rain helps plants grow and observe the life cycle of a seed.

  • Books to Pair With:

    • Rain! by Linda Ashman

    • Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert

    • The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

🧠 Extension Activities

  • Grow real seeds in the classroom (like beans or grass).

  • Create a simple weather graph for daily observation.

  • Practice counting raindrops or flower petals.

2. “Spring into Learning”

📌 Theme: Springtime animals and blooming nature
🖍 Materials:

  • Bright-colored paper for flowers, bees, butterflies, and grass
  • Construction paper for a sun
  • Children’s photos
    🌟 Activity: Let each child decorate a flower or a butterfly. Add their picture to the center of a flower, showing how they are “growing” and “blooming” as they learn.

3. “Our Little Garden”

📌 Theme: Growing plants and vegetables
🖍 Materials:

  • Brown paper for soil
  • Green paper for stems and leaves
  • Colorful paper for flowers and veggies
    🌟 Activity: Each child “plants” their own flower by adding their name and decorating a flower or vegetable. Talk about how plants need sunshine, water, and care—just like learning!

4. “Hoppy Spring!”

📌 Theme: Bunnies and Easter eggs
🖍 Materials:

  • Bunny cutouts
  • Paper Easter eggs
  • Green shredded paper for grass
    🌟 Activity: Kids decorate their own Easter egg with markers, stickers, or glitter. Add their names to the eggs and place them in a field with hopping bunnies.

5. “Earth Day, Every Day” (For April 22)

📌 Theme: Taking care of the Earth
🖍 Materials:

  • Large Earth cutout in the center
  • Handprint cutouts from recycled paper
  • Speech bubbles for kids’ pledges
    🌟 Activity: Each child writes or dictates one way they can help the Earth (e.g., “I will turn off the lights” or “I will pick up trash”). Their pledge is displayed on the board along with their handprint.