Are you looking for fun ways to brighten up the environment of your school or office? While there are plenty of tips to make both corporate and academic life exciting, this blog will address the simplest method of adding excitement to daily routine jobs at school and offices. The best part about bulletin boards is that it has the ability to make people stop walking and look away from their phones for a while. It is quite likely that they will absorb the message displayed in front of them. However, the message should be creative and fun. Check out these amazing and creative soft board decoration ideas and spice things up!
Let’s get started!
Best Soft Board Decoration Ideas
Here are some of the easiest ways to decorate soft boards. You would need lots of stationery and craft supplies. If you are wondering where to buy those, then check out the best stationery shops in Islamabad and Karachi. Here are some amazing soft board decoration ideas.
- Interactive boards
- Quotable Quotes
- Your thought matters
- Ask the boss/teacher board
- The shout out board
- The travel board
- Achievement board
Let’s discuss these in detail.
Interactive boards
It is trending these days and is well-suited for both academic and corporate life. For academics, choose any interactive fun-filled activity and display it on the soft board. Teachers can place crossword puzzles for students on a weekly basis and in an envelope keep the missing letters. The students have to find the missing words and place it on the board accordingly. You can also do a similar activity for the solar system, types of plants or the metamorphosis of a butterfly. The students find it exciting to participate in these kinds of activities.
To keep the creative juices flowing for your employees, keep an interactive or activity-based board in which you can display crossword puzzles, or ‘Did you Know?’ general questions. It all depends upon the kind of work your company does. If it is a creative ad agency, then finding ten mistakes in a visual can be an exciting activity for employees.
Quotable Quotes
An inspiring quote can definitely give the motivation you need to start your day. The trick is to keep changing the quotes every day. It can work for both offices and schools. You can decorate the notice board with the ‘Quote of the Day’ and add a pictorial representation that matches well with the thought displayed. If you do not have the time to decorate the soft board pictorially, then take a print out of the image that represents the quote and use a push pin to attach it to the soft board. If you are looking for soft board decoration for new session, then this idea is perfect to welcome children back to school.
Your thought matters
This soft board decoration idea is quite popular among office-goers who want to share their thoughts on any office matter or ongoing social issues. You will have to place sticky notes, push pins and a pen in a box and keep it nearby. Decorate the soft board with a colourful border and leave the rest to the employees to fill it up. You will find that in no time, the soft board is filled up with amazing thoughts – some of these can even be implemented to make the work environment more productive.
In classrooms, you can decorate a soft board by doing the same activity above – students would learn that they should not hesitate in speaking up. It will act as a small publishing house where you can voice your opinion and pen down your thoughts.
Ask the boss/teacher board
Asking an authoritative figure is downright intimidating, but not with this creative soft board decoration idea. You can ask employees/students for any questions they have for the teacher or boss. This will open up an avenue for the students and employees who can ask burning questions without feeling threatened by any penalty. Screen out the questions and forward the appropriate ones to your boss or teacher. Give them a week’s time and then place the answers to the questions in a Q&A format to benefit all.
The shout out board
If some fellow worker or your classmate has gone the extra mile to help you out and you want everyone to know how nice this person is or if someone in your office or class has done an exceptional job, then give kudos to them using the shout out board. How to decorate it? Well, keep some pen, post-its and push pins in an envelope (You can insert the push pins in the soft board) and state the instructions on a plain notice board. Finish off the décor with an attractive heading and beautiful borders for soft board.
The travel board
This is a fun board that can inspire a lot of people and encourage exciting conversations about travel destinations. It suits well for an office environment, but a similar board can be introduced for classrooms, when students join school after vacations. They would be encouraged to share photos, descriptions about the destination they have been to – even if that means explaining how your grandmother’s house looks – it instills a culture of sharing experiences.
You can also place a world map on the bulletin board and ask people which is their favourite travel destination and why. Ask them to write a small blurb. Post a picture with the description under it at the destination on the world map.
Achievement board
One of the best and most sought-after bulletin board ideas for both classrooms and offices is an achievement board. You can place the best employee or student of the month on it. This gives encouragement and inspiration to coworkers and classmates who would then aspire to become like the high-achievers.
So, these were some of the easiest soft board decoration ideas that you can implement at school and offices. Don’t forget to write to us at blog@zameen.com and we will surely get back to you. Check out these class room decoration ideas. Subscribe to the Zameen Newsletter appearing on the right hand side of the page. Stay tuned to the Zameen Blog, the best real estate blog in Pakistan.
