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

What is Teachers Pay Teachers?


What is Teachers Pay Teachers? TPT stands for Teachers Pay Teachers. It is an online marketplace where teachers and parents can purchase and download free products to help support student education. Resources in all subjects and grade levels can be found and they range in prices from free to $200 with most products being under $5. Find out more about what Teachers Pay Teachers is in this post!



At first, I felt guilty purchasing products on TPT to be used in my classroom. I tried talking myself out of buying a $4 presentation, worksheet and slideshow on a topic I knew nothing about.

When I though about it I ended up saving at least 6 hours to research the topic on early humans, make the slideshow, the worksheet, edit and format everything. The $4 was well spent and I feel a lot less guilt now spending a few dollars to pay for something that is going to make my job as teacher easier!

In my first year of teaching, I was teaching a lot of subjects and grade levels that I was unfamiliar with. Planning units became very time consuming because I was having to research and plan the content before teaching it.  TPT helps build up your bank of lessons, activities and ideas.



TPT is the first place I check before I begin planning because often I can find what I am looking for - for FREE!  Usually, I can’t make something as nice and as pretty either. 

TPT offers a variety of sales throughout the year. It’s a great idea to join their mailing list to get notified when there are upcoming sales. Their sales are often 20% off which means you can save even more on products that are already inexpensive! 


Something that I recently learned about TPT blew my mind! If you leave a review on a purchase you made (not a free download) you can actually earn credits to be applied on future purchases!  It’s a win-win - you help the seller build a trusted reputation and you give yourself a credit to use towards your next purchase! 


In my TPT shop, I am focusing on art resources because that is my speciality! I have products for middle school and high school art! 

Still curious about what TPT is? Visit my shop here and follow me so you can see new resources that I put out!

Check out some of my products here:  Click on any of the images if you are interested in learning more about the product!

Insect Symmetry - free download- click the image to download this freebie!

Insect Symmetry - free download- click the image to download this freebie!

Purchase Drawing Prompts for High School here - 30+ pages!


Even if you are not a teacher and you are a parent TPT is worth the look - you will be able to find activities, worksheets and more to help your child with a topic they might be struggling in!


Here is the link to follow me on TPT and check out my shop!

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