Last year I had good intentions to update my hallway bulletin board in my home as the seasons changed, but that never happened.  This year I made another new school year resolution to update our bulletin board and I'm happy to say that I started our homeschool year out with a "We've had  a "Tee-rific" Summer" bulletin board and now as Fall approaches I have changed the board to this:


I found the apple cutouts in a bulletin board book that I have, but you can find any apple coloring page on the internet. I found one here.  Then for the basket, I took light tan paper, cut it into a basket shape, cut slits in the paper so that I could weave the dark brown, construction paper strips in and out of the slits.  Then I took 2 of the strips, stapled them and used that as my basket handle.
The theme of the board  is a title I made up called,  "We love FALL-ing in love with Jesus and school".  Here is a close up shot:

I got the top and bottom leaf patterns from Microsoft Word's Clipart and I just found a leaf image and copied it over and over again to make the pattern above and below the title.  I had my children and a visiting friend write why they love God/Jesus and/or what they liked in school.  Here are some of their apples:

 The blue colorful apple is my 2.5 year olds and my daughter's friend wrote what she said.

I wrote down what my 6 year old daughter narrated to me: " I am thankful for horses and dolphins.  I like riding horses.  I like flowers and I like seals."


I didn't have any pre-cut Fall themed bulletin board borders, so I went on the internet and did a Google search for Fall borders and I found this one from Preschool Printables. (see sample above)  I made several copies of the leaf pattern and cut and stapled them around the board. 

So I am happy to say that I have completed an August and September bulletin board with my children.  Now if I can keep the momentum going, I'll look forward to finding a fun idea for October's board!