Are you needing fun and engaging ways to talk about character education in your classroom? Or are you a Christian teacher wanting to use the Fruit of the Spirit to help with classroom management? Whether you are teaching in a religious or non-religious setting, this interactive bulletin board is great for encouraging positive student behaviors.

The Fruit of the Spirit is one of my favorite units to teach in preschool Sunday School. Not only is it fun and yummy, but it is so helpful in encouraging appropriate behaviors. This bulletin board set goes perfectly with this unit (the fruits even match!) and it's so easy to put up.

Let's talk about 3 things I absolutely love about using this Fruit of the Spirit bulletin board in the classroom!

1. It's An Easy Peezy Set Up (Cut, Trace, Staple)

Having the templates ready to go make this bulletin board display a breeze to set up. The bulletin board shown in the video above is a 48x36 board and I used the small size template from the bulletin board set and got to cutting and stapling.

After I stapled it up, I colored in the tiny spaces with black marker (dry erase marker is actually my favorite for this task because it's just so dark) to make it seem like I cut out those way teeny tiny spaces even though my fingers couldn't handle it. :) It blends in so perfectly that not even my find-every-mistake-I-make 9 year old has found it yet! #winning

Next up was the tree. I just free handed this one. But ya'll, don't be impressed. I'm a terrible artist. Like way bad. I can doodle and handletter, but drawing? Nope! All I did was pull up a cute tree clipart picture and drew with pencil so I could erase a bunch of times and then went over it with marker. It's not perfect, but it's cute enough!

Still don't have confidence in your free hand skills? Do what I did in the classroom and pull up your favorite tree clipart on your interactive white board, tape the poster board to it, resize the image to the size you need and TRACE.

2. Flexible Wording Options

I have heard from sooooo many of my Christian teacher friends that they want more scripture based bulletin boards that are easy to set up. But so many of you can't use a Christian based board (or don't want to and that's okay too!) That's why I'm making each bulletin board in this monthly bundle with lots of wording options.

There are 3 versions of this bulletin board in this fruits set. Only one is Christian based. When finished, it looks like this!

The other 2 are non-religious, Character Ed based like this!

One of the wordings is shown above and the other wording is, "We can bear fruit."

3. It's Interactive!

I love LOVE bulletin boards that I can make interactive with the kids and we can add to or change along the way instead of a bulletin board that's just a wallflower or decoration. :)

This character traits bulletin board set has apples for you to fill out when you see kids showing a specific character trait. I love using these at the end of the day when we are reflecting on the day. Maybe we have really focused on one trait a lot, OR maybe we have really struggled with one character trait! So, I will find someone who didn't struggle with that trait and talk about it positively to encourage others to work on that more!