DIY Classroom Decor Ideas




Create a classroom you love with my DIY classroom decor ideas. My DIY classroom decor ideas are all printable PDFs that can be printed in colour on white paper or printed in black and white on coloured paper, decor that you or your students can create to give your classroom a calm and welcoming look. All of my classroom posters are designed with a simple and minimalist look so that they don’t look distracting or busy. All posters are sized: Poster sizes are 8.5" x 11.”

I often laminate my classroom decor to keep it looking new for years to come.


Sometimes I rotate my decor on bulletin boards or hang the decor beside student artwork. 


Classroom decor helps to make your classroom more inviting and feel more like a community or home and less institutional



DIY Classroom Decor Ideas

  • Adding plants -real, fake or dried

  • Adding fabric on your bulletin boards or wall paper

  • Printing or design your own borders for bulletin boards

  • Choose a consistent colour palette to decorate your classroom

  • Hang student artwork

  • Hang printed posters

  • Arrange books by colour

  • Add decorative objects related to the topics you are teaching

  • Keep wall, bulletin boards minimal so they aren’t too distracting 


Calming Classroom Decor

I have created calming classroom decor with blue and white designs using the cyanotype process and botanicals.

Pine theme -classroom decor

Palm leaf theme classroom decor

Daisy theme classroom decor

Growth Mindset Printable PDF Posters


These posters are a plant theme with watercolour clipart added. There are 15 posters in colour and black and white versions in this growth mindset poster package.

Check out the posters here!


These growth mindset posters are great to hang in your room in September when you're teaching about growth mindset. If you are like me and you love having a lot of plants in your classroom these posters will really match your classroom decor and accompany your plant friends nicely.




Art Room Rules Posters

You can download my FREE Art Room Rules Posters here!  This set of FREE posters includes 3 different styles of rules for the art room in colour and black and white versions! 



Blue Paint Theme of Artist Affirmation Posters

Blue Paint Theme of Artist Affirmation Posters

Artist Affirmation Posters

Each of these sets of affirmation posters have a paint theme with paint splatters and paint brushes. Each set of posters includes different artist affirmations. These posters will look great hanging next to student art work in your art classroom. 

Check out the Rainbow Paint Theme - here!

Check out the Blue Paint Theme- here!

Rainbow Paint Theme for Affirmation Art Posters

Rainbow Paint Theme for Affirmation Art Posters

Donut Drawing

Donut drawing is a fun end of the year activity to add to your classroom. Drawing a donut can be used in a media art lesson, lesson on pop art, product design, art lesson or more. You can use my donut drawing templates to get students to draw and design donuts if they finish their work early or to decorate a donut that is themed around the holidays.


Donut drawing is a fun activity for middle school students! I don’t know about you but my students sure do have a sweet tooth! 

Donut Drawing

Here are some ways to use it in your classroom:

  • If students finish their work early

  • To design their own flavour and then write a paragraph about it

  • To design their own flavour and create an advertisement like a poster or commercial

  • To design their own donut themed around a prompt like the holidays or animals

  • To draw a donut with different materials like watercolour or pastels 

  • To draw a donut after interviewing a local bakery

  • To draw a donut after learning about the artist Andy Warhol and the pop art style

  • To draw a donut to celebrate a birthday in the classroom


And so much more! 

You can check out my donut drawing templates here! 



Another great end of the year activity is Drawing a Popsicle. Drawing a Popsicle includes templates to be used in the same way as Donut Drawing.

Students can decorate their own popsicles and then have a nice popsicle treat outside to celebrate the end of the school year! 


You can check out my popsicle drawing templates here!  


Donut Drawing and Popsicle Drawing is a great end of year activity for middle school.

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