Interactive Bulletin Boards: Shapes

There's a great Bulletin Board in the Children's Section of the library I work in.  It's right over a couch and the children have been fiddling with it for years.  So a few months ago, I thought - why fight them?  We're on our 3rd Interactive Bulletin Board and each one has been extremely popular.

I'm not the greatest photographer - so this is the best I was able to do.  I know you can't read the title, it's, "Shape Your Imagination."  Believe me, it looks way cooler in person

This is quite possibly the easiest bulletin board I've ever done.  I cut out shapes that I printed using Word.  (Because I don't trust myself to be able to draw a straight lined square or round circle.)  And then went to town on the felt.  What you see in the picture isn't even half of them.  One little girl was having a marvelous time this afternoon organizing them into piles of shapes.  Hey, whatever floats your boat.  And, hey, that's good for early literacy, too!

To make the board, I went to my store of felt and found the biggest piece I had.  I was so excited - it was huge!!  And then...I put it up against my board.  It was short.  :(  So, I did the only thing I could think of - I made up the difference with another green.  My OCD is going crazy because of the difference - but the thing I've been hearing from the parents is they like the "offset different color."  So, let's go with that...yeah...um...that was intentional.

Since I put it up on Tuesday (a mere 2 days ago), the shapes have gone all over the room, have been in many different designs and one 2 year old yelled "Shapes!" so loud that her mother was quite embarrassed. Me?  I was thrilled that she was so happy to find shapes.

I'm looking forward to watching what the children do with this.