31 Creative May Classroom Door Ideas for Spring
If you’re looking for some May classroom door ideas you’ve come to the right place. I’ve gathered tons of new ideas for classroom door decorations for spring, and all of the May holidays. Whether you want to DIY your door décor or purchase it I have some ideas and inspiration for you.
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Spring Classroom Door Ideas
In May you can play up some spring themes for your door décor. Think spring flowers, butterflies, sunshine and bees. Let’s check out some beautiful spring door ideas that you can copy below.
1 | Here Comes the Sun Classroom Door
Here’s a fun classroom door idea that’s a nod to the Beatles song, “Here comes the sun.” This would be perfect to add in May just as the warmer weather is starting to hit. Then add retro graphics like a van, peace signs, roller skates and heart shaped sunglasses!
2 | Kindergarten is the Best Place to Bee
Students love when you add their pictures to your classroom décor. Copy this idea and turn students into adorable bumble bees with the quote, Kindergarten is the best place to BEE.
Of course you can replace kindergarten with whatever grade you teach. Oh and don’t forget to include yourself as the queen bee!
3 | Flutter into Spring
Add some colorful butterflies with the phrase, flutter into spring for an easy and playful class door idea.
4 | Our Futures are Bright with Math
Are you looking for a great idea for high school or middle school? Here’s a fun sunshine pun that would be perfect for math class or you can change the word math to the subject that you teach. In the glasses you can add math facts based on what the class is learning.
5 | Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud
Here’s a creative classroom door that you can have students help you make. You can break the class into 7 small groups and have each group create one color paper chain.
You can easily create a cute cloud with white construction paper. Then just attach the paper chains to your cloud. At the top add the inspirational message, “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”
6 | Bumble Bee Art Classroom Door Idea
Here’s a student art project that would make the perfect May classroom door. Have students create cute little bumble bees with paper plates, googly eyes, pipe cleaners and yellow and black paint. Then add a sun, flowers, blue skies and a white picket fence for the background.
7 | Spring into a Good Book
Here’s a great way to kick off spring with your classroom door. You could feature students reading along with favorite book characters. Another idea to go with this phrase is to display book covers of some of your student’s favorite books.
8 | Garden Gnome Classroom Door
Would your students love if you transformed your class door into a gnome garden wonderland? You can create a large tree trunk with brown butcher paper. Then add adorable gnomes, mushrooms, and flowers to bring the fantasy door to life!
Spring Flowers Classroom Door Ideas
There are tons of fun puns that you can use along with flowers to decorate your door for the month of May. Check out some ideas below.
9 | Young Minds Bloom Inside this Room
Here’s the perfect classroom door to copy for May. You can create paper flowers with tissue paper, or you can buy some like these pretty ones here. Young minds bloom inside this room is the perfect phrase to go with the flowers.
10 | April Showers Bring May Flowers
Here’s a fun way to incorporate a 3-D aspect to your classroom door by adding large clouds on the top of your door. You could also add an umbrella for a fun 3-D effect as well. This would be a great classroom door idea for April or May!
11 | Learning Helps Us Bloom
Here’s another fun flower pun that you can steal for your May door. Add a retro twist with checkered daisies as your flower of choice.
12 | Look Who’s Blooming
Adding your student’s faces to your classroom door helps build a sense of classroom community. So why not steal this idea and add their faces to blooming flowers for your May door?
13 | Teach the Wildest Flowers in the Field
This colorful classroom door décor kit features wildflowers and the phrase, “We Teach the wildest flowers in the field.” This is a digital file that you can find on Etsy here. You then print and cut it yourself.
14 | We Grow Classroom Door Idea
Copy this cheerful classroom door idea and add happy sunflowers to your classroom door with the words, In This Class We Grow.
May Holidays and Events Classroom Door Ideas
Let’s check out what happening in May to give you a little more inspiration for your door décor.
15 | May the Fourth be With You Classroom Door
May 4th is Star Wars Day and the perfect time to create a Star Wars themed classroom door. I found these really cute Star Wars character cutouts that you can put around your door. Then on your door with bulletin board letters you can add the phrase May the 4th Be With You!
16 | Mother’s Day Classroom Door
Mother’s Day is in May so you can use student art that they created for their mothers to decorate your door. If your class will have a Mother’s Day activity you can write Happy Mother’s Day on the classroom door to welcome in all the moms!
17 | Cinco De Mayo Classroom Door
May 5th is Cinco do Mayo. You can add cultural elements to your décor like papel picado, sombreros, and maracas. Here’s where you can find these Cinco De Mayo classroom decorations. For an art project have students help create large colorful paper flowers with tissue paper to add to your door for May
18 | Memorial Day Tribute Classroom Door Idea
Create a patriotic display with red, white, and blue, featuring stars, stripes, and a message of gratitude for service members.
Teacher Appreciation Day Door Ideas
The first week of May is teacher appreciation week. Let’s check out some ideas to decorate your door for this week. Some schools have parents decorate the door for their teacher this week. I will show you some ideas for that and ideas for teacher’s to decorate their door to appreciate the other teacher in your school.
19 | Post it Note Teacher Appreciation Week Door Idea
Here’s an interactive classroom door idea for teacher appreciation day. On your door add the phrase, teacher’s take what you need. Then add colorful post it notes and on each sticky note list things that teachers may need for example:
- Coffee
- A Smile
- Sleep
- Peace
- Creativity
- Love
- Patience
Here are some ideas to copy if you are a parent decorating a door or decorating the class door for another teacher for Teacher Appreciation Day!
20 | Guess Who Loves Ms. Van Heel?
This Guess Who door décor kit is a printable kit from Etsy that you can find here. To customize this kit you can add student names too!
21 | Our Classroom is the Happies Place on Earth
For this classroom door idea, you can create a Disney theme featuring some of Disney’s favorite characters or the Disney castle.
22 | Life is an Adventure with Ms. Green
For this door décor you can purchase this printable kit or you can blow up balloons and add them to the door a well.
23 | Mrs. Hall is One in a Melon
You could add watermelon cutouts with student’s names on them to decorate this door.
24 | Thanks for Making Us a Bunch of Real Smart Cookies
This would be a great door to surprise a teacher for teacher appreciation week. This door décor kit can be found here.
25 | You Mean the World to Us
For this classroom door feature the earth with students standing on top.
26 | We Need Smore Teachers Like You
Lean into a camping theme with this quote and a fire and some smores getting roasted!
End of the Year Classroom Door Ideas
If your school year ends in May then you may want to create a classroom door that helps to celebrate the end of a school year. Check out some inspiration to pull that off below and I’ve included some bulletin board ideas for you too.
27 | It was a Picture-Perfect Year
Here’s a fun end of the year classroom door decoration idea that your students will love. Steal this quote, “It was a picture perfect year.” Then add some Polaroid pictures of your classroom throughout the school year.
28 | End of Year cel’YOU’bration
Here’s a fun idea for an end of the year countdown. You will start this countdown when there are the same number of days left in school as there are students in your class. You will celebrate one student every day.
You’ll peel off one card each day to reveal what student will be celebrated that day. The special student gets special perks for the day like a special seating spot in class and will get to help choose a fun classroom activity.
29 | Oh Snap This Year’s a Wrap
This is a printable bulletin board kit from Etsy that you could use to create a fun end of the year classroom door or your May bulletin board!
30 | It’s the Final Countdown
Here’s another printable bulletin board kit that you can use as a classroom door countdown!
Easy May Classroom Door Decoration Ideas
Sometimes you just want a simple idea to decorate your classroom door, right? I got you! Check out some easy classroom door decoration ideas that will work perfectly for you May door below.
31 | Daisy Classroom Door Decor
Here’s and easy idea to decorate the inside of your classroom door that is also cute. Decorate a plain door with daisy cutouts or stickers to make a cheerful classroom door for the month of May!
I hope you found some new May classroom door ideas to try this year. Feel free to save your favorite ideas to your Pinterest boards. To do that just click on the picture and then the P and choose your board.
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