A Classroom setup is very conducive to how children learn.

There are many ways that teachers wet up their classrooms with a great focus put on decorating the classroom walls. Bulletin boards are often done through great collaboration with other teachers and adults. the problem is often that when decorating the early childhood classroom, children are not taken into account.

By this I mean, that if our goal is to educate the children shouldn’t our classroom be decorated FOR the children NOT for the parents.

To that end I have laid out 4 basic ideas that will help you decorate your nursery, kindergarten or early childhood classroom with the children in mind.

1. Uncluttered walls: For some reason many preschool teachers seem to think that in order for their classroom to look cheerful and welcoming, they have to plaster the walls with all kinds of cutesy and supposedly educational signs and pictures. What tends to happen, however is that children tend to tune out when there is too much stimulation and don’t see anything. The trick is to put less up, keep it uncluttered and the children will notice what’s there.
2. Hang low: Why is it that you see ABC’s and other assorted things hanging in early childhood classrooms that are at the top of the room Don’t people realize that the kids are way down on the bottom. If you want the children to see what you hang up…hang it low enough so that they can see what you have prepared for them to see without craning their necks.
3. Hang stuff together with the children: If you can hang the wall hangings together with the children they will be much more involved in what is hung up and will refer back to things more often as they remembered it going up it involves them more.
4. Decorate with children’s artwork:There is nothing that makes a preschool classroom look more cheery than children’s artwork hung on the walls. I know you may want to have things hung up before the children begin school so maybe you can prepare a space that has a beautiful border that says  “Kids work” or something like that and as soon as they make some paintings or drawings,  frame them nicely and hang them up

Remember you want the children involved and everything you do in the classroom should be focused on what the children can gain from it.( Even something simple like the walls of the classroom.)