5 Ways to Kickoff Thanksgiving with a Football Bulletin Board Theme

Game on! As the holidays approach, bring a fun and festive twist to your Thanksgiving classroom decor by mixing gratitude with game day joy! Let’s combine the best parts of the season: turkeys and football. (We’re also mixing in a few football puns… I know, I’m sorry; but I couldn’t resist.) With these two themes, you can easily create a playful and engaging space all season. Just add some Thanksgiving flair to a football bulletin board design and you’ve got yourself a touchdown! Get ready to kickoff the season with creativity and style, from your classroom decorations to digital slides!

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1. Set the Scene with a Football Bulletin Board Kit

Tackle your Thanksgiving decor with a football-themed design that will be the center of attention! A versatile Thanksgiving football bulletin board kit can pull double duty, perfect for decorating not only your board, but extending into your hallway or used as a classroom door decoration as well.

You can deck out your bulletin board with cute turkey cutouts, footballs, and game-day gear like foam fingers and flags to create a celebratory vibe. And don’t forget the pompoms and football-themed banners to give your board that extra cheerleader-like energy. I love this speckled messy dots border to frame this design!

My new Turkeys and Touchdowns Bulletin Board Kit is done-for-you and ready to go! It includes turkeys wearing sunglasses (because who doesn’t love a cool turkey?), letters for 3 different sayings, 4 different decorative borders, and more! There are even text editable tags (in the shape of a foam finger and heart shaped football) that you can add your students’ names to. It’s the perfect way to embrace your classroom’s team spirit!

2. Use Football-Themed Bulletin Board Letters

To make your displays truly pop, use football-inspired bulletin board letters! Like designs that feature a football texture or patterns of hand-drawn football plays. The letters could spell out something like “Game Plan: Gratitude” or “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work.”

These themed Turkeys and Touchdowns Bulletin Board Letters make it so easy to customize your displays! Use them throughout your classroom – not just on your boards – to continue your theme throughout your space. And they come in a primary-friendly font option too.

3. Match Your Posters to the Thanksgiving Theme

To tie your classroom together, decorate with themed posters featuring football and Thanksgiving phrases and on-theme images that mirror your decor. Posters like these not only add to the festive atmosphere but can also serve as positive reminders to encourage teamwork and gratitude during the Thanksgiving season.

These Turkeys and Touchdowns Classroom Posters include 8 unique designs and 4 decorative borders to frame your displays! There’s even a text editable file included so you can add your own sayings to the designs, like “Score Big with Kindness” or “Huddle Up and Be Grateful.” They’re perfect for displaying on a bulletin board, or you can use them on your door, add to picture frames around your classroom, or enlarge them during printing to create stunning wall displays! And if you’re looking for another outer border option, this Swiss cross border complements this theme perfectly!

4. Thanksgiving Door Decorating and Hallway Displays

If you want to go beyond the bulletin board, extend your football decor to your classroom door and hallway. You can create a goalpost entrance with yellow streamers, and hang small football flags or mini pompoms along the sides of your doorframe.

Add cutouts of footballs and turkeys to greet your students as they enter. Also, the hallway is a great place to showcase your “Team Thankful” theme with additional foam fingers and pennants to cheer on your classroom’s successes!

5. Use Football and Thanksgiving Google Slides Templates

Finally, bring the decor into your digital resources with matching Thanksgiving football-themed Google Slides templates. Perfect for morning meetings, daily schedules, or announcements, these slides can feature fun designs that match your overall Thanksgiving classroom decor theme. Use them to present lesson objectives, class agendas, and more! By keeping your digital tools in line with your physical decor, you’ll create a cohesive, spirited environment that students will love interacting with, whether on-screen or in-person.

The Turkeys and Touchdowns Google Slides Templates are the perfect complement to your classroom this season! This set includes 12 vibrant welcome/greeting slides, 6 unique schedule slides, and 18 designs with all text removed so that you can customize them for whatever you need! Check out these ideas to improve classroom routines with Google Slides for even more ways to use these templates!

Thanksgiving & Football Bulletin Board Bundle

This Thanksgiving-themed football bulletin board decor is all about celebrating gratitude while keeping the energy high with game-day excitement. From cool turkeys to festive football cutouts, every detail works together to create a vibrant, cohesive classroom environment. This design will give you and your students a touchdown-worthy Thanksgiving season!

Save time and money with the complete Turkeys and Touchdowns Bulletin Board Bundle! It’s available in my website shop and my TPT store. Grab the bundle to tackle your seasonal classroom decor with style!

Go team, go!