To help promote sustainability, create an interactive bulletin board with a green theme. Use green paper to cover the back of a bulletin board. To stick with the theme, try to use as many recycled materials as possible when creating the bulletin board. Cut out big letters for the top of the board that spell "Practice Sustainability." Display a stack of blank index cards and pens on the bottom ledge of the board. To encourage interaction, write a few cards and pin them around the board. The cards should each describe a sustainable practice that the writer does at home, such as "repurposing old glass jars" or "composting and maintaining an organic garden." Each card may include a small, hand-drawn picture of the sustainable activity with a name signed on the bottom. The display of index cards on the bulletin board will show what your community is doing to practice sustainability and give ideas for new practices.
In an elementary school classroom, teachers can start an interactive bulletin board to show each student's birthday. To do this, decorate the board with a paper border that has a school-related theme, such as apples, pencils or chalk. Write out each month on separate rectangles and line them up horizontally along the bottom of the bulletin board. Decorate and cut out apples for each student in the class. Pass out the apples and instruct each student to write his/her name and birthday on the apple. You can then pin the apples on the bulletin board, above the correct month. The board will visually show how many birthdays are in each month, while making each student feel appreciated.
At a library or in a classroom, an interactive bulletin board could recommend recent good books. To decorate the board, create a "bookworm" theme by pinning up several animated or realistic-looking worms. A border with books or historical elements can accent the theme. Create cutouts of open or closed books for the board, and write the names of some new books. Alternatively, you can print out a picture of the actual book cover to help the audience recognize the book on the shelves. In a classroom setting, highlight the assigned book in the center of the board and add several similar books around the edges as "additional recommended reading."
For a bulletin board idea that can be used in corporate offices, social groups or just about anywhere else, try making a "Who's that Baby?" interactive board. To do this, ask everyone to bring in a picture of themselves as a baby. Attach the pictures to a bulletin board with little numbers by each picture. Everyone can take a week or two to look at the pictures and try to guess who it is in each picture. At the end of the designated time, reveal the names of the babies to everyone.