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Bulletin Board

'Feel the West' Bulletin Board

Two weeks before your Book Fair, create a Western promotion.

Cost: About $25
Time: 2.5 hours (less with a helper)


Here's what you need:
  • Half a yard of red felt
  • 20' of rope
  • Blue, brown, and yellow construction paper
  • Brown twine
  • Brown wrapping paper (or shopping bags)
  • Cotton balls, hay or rafia
  • Green pot-scrubber pads (4-pack box)
  • Glue stick, glue gun
  • Popsicle sticks (16)

Here's what to do:

  • Cover top third of bulletin board with blue construction paper.
  • Mold crumpled paper bags and brown construction paper into mountains.
  • Cover bottom of board with yellow paper, stapling around edges and across base of mountains.
  • Hot-glue red-painted Popsicle sticks in place for fence posts.
  • Add cotton clouds, pot-scrubber cacti (PDF), a small plastic snake, and a couple of tumbleweeds of hay, grass, or rafia.
  • Place a red banner (PDF) across the bottom announces the theme (write letters in hot glue, add brown twine). An open book tells the what, when, and where.
  • The "book" is blue poster paper with well-glued white announcement pages (we used cardboard stock) attached so that both pages bow in the middle. It is stapled on all sides and through the center. Overlay it with a lasso and extend the tail to form a rope border around the entire board.
  • Enlarge Reading RoundUp Sign Letters (PDF) and glue to top of your bulletin board.

 

 

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Letters & Announcements
Family Event Invitation (PDF Form)
Media Scripts (RTF)
PA Skits (RTF)
Press Release (RTF)
Reading Roundup Announcement (PDF Form)
Volunteer Recruiting Flyer (PDF Form)

Signs & Decorations
Bookmarks (PDF Form)
Lasso a Book Coloring Sign (PDF)
Sheriff Name Badges (PDF Form)
Tee Shirt Art (PDF)
Boot Pattern (PDF)
Cactus Pattern (PDF)
Bulletin Board Banner (PDF)
Bulletin Board Letters (PDF)
Guessing Game Sign (PDF Form)
Guessing Game Permit (PDF Form)
Hat1 Pattern (PDF)
Hat 2 Pattern (PDF)
Horseshoe Pattern (PDF)
Lasso Pattern (PDF)
Prairie Dog (PDF)
Shelf Talkers (PDF)
Vest, Chaps & Wrist Guards (PDF)
Wagon Wheel Pattern (PDF)
Wooden Planks Pattern (PDF)
Star Pattern (PDF)



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