Winter classroom display ideas

It’s time to get into the winter spirit by creating amazing winter themes for your classroom. The best way to do this is through displays. You can create one big winter display or multiple smaller ones, or you could even alternate them throughout the rest of the season. Winter displays brighten the classroom up making it a better place for children to concentrate in. Plus, it’s the perfect mood lifter.

To help you with creating winter displays, we have created some winter classroom display ideas that you can try out and put your own creative spin on!

Explore new places

A perfect winter classroom display can explore new places such as arctic countries, to fit in with the winter theme. This display can be educational and assist pupils with their geography knowledge. Have maps displaying the whole world and then a close-up of the arctic ocean and what surrounds it. Research some fun arctic facts and pin them up too so that children can learn something new.

Take inspiration from this amazing artic geography display.

Explore arctic animals

Another way to delve into a winter theme is to create an arctic animal’s display. This is the perfect way for children to learn all about the different arctic animals. Be as creative as you like with making the animals to put on the display. You could get children to make animals from card and paper in an art lesson to be displayed. Give them different arctic animals to create and all the supplies needed and let them be crafty.

Have plenty of facts about each animal that children can learn from and think about the placement on the display board. You can make it seem like your classroom is the arctic like in this example.

Hold a wintery art gallery

Showcase pupil’s artwork for everyone to see by creating a winter-themed art gallery display. Let children get creative with crafting and art. Task them to make something that goes into the winter theme. From snowmen to snowflakes and even penguins, whatever reminds them of winter can be used for the art gallery display.

Why not create wintery collages and set up the art gallery like the below image?

Combine winter and maths

Why not delve into maths through a fun winter-themed maths display? Add in maths that’s relevant to your class and during maths lessons use the display board. You can have a factual maths display board that aids children in learning. They can use it as a reference for help when needed. Or why not create a winter-solving display that pupils can interact with?

A great example of a solving display is this amazing solve the snowflakes display board.

Mix science with winter

Covering key subjects in classroom displays is crucial so that children can learn from them and develop their knowledge of the main subjects. A perfect key subject to mix with a winter theme is science. You could do many different winter displays with a science theme such as winter animals, hibernation explained, how snow falls or take inspiration from the idea below on how snowflakes are formed!

Safety tips for the cold weather

This is a great winter classroom display to ensure that everyone knows how to stay safe during this season. The display can be set out however you like as long as the safety information can be seen clearly and understood easily. You can include tips for snow and ice, especially when walking to school, wrapping up warm and even possible winter dangers that can occur such as extreme weather.

Why not try a simple layout like this example and twist it to safety tips for the cold?

Winter book display

Encourage children to read this winter with a winter book display. Make books seem magical with an enticing display so that children want to pick the books up and read. You can do the display in your reading corner that pupils can use for some time to themselves and cosy up away from the cold. Display some winter-themed books that children can choose from and make sure they are appropriate for your class.

This example below is perfect for the classroom to display a variety of winter books. It also makes books seem enticing and magical for children.

Winter writing inspiration

Develop your pupils’ writing skills with a winter writing inspiration display. A display like this can help children when they are tasked with writing stories or anything else. The display can offer any useful reminders and tips to reinforce what pupils learn during English lessons. A perfect way to incorporate winter with writing inspiration is this idea of a story mountain.

Proudly show off goals of the year

This is one of the winter display ideas that is perfect to do for the new year. Give pupils the opportunity when you come back to discuss what they would like to achieve in this new year. Let them commit to these goals by writing them down and then sticking them up on a winter-themed display.

Throughout the new year, check in with the board and allow pupils to make changes to their goals if their motivations and interests have changed. Don’t forget to add your own goals for the year to show your class that you are all in it together.

You can even update what the display looks like according to the seasons. The aspiration tree is a great idea to change for different seasons as it can start off bare with goals on branches and then blossom onto leaves.

Have a feelings display

Create a feelings display so that your class can come to terms with their emotions. This is vital for primary classrooms and winter is the perfect time to check in with how pupils are feeling. Winter can be tough for many people as the days are darker, the weather is colder, and moods can become low.

Having a display like the one below, allows children to communicate how they are feeling without feeling pressure or scared. Plus, offering a solution to tackle how they are feeling supports them with their mental health and helps get them out of a certain mindset.

Try out these winter classroom display ideas to educate, inspire and support your pupils. Make your displays as engaging as possible so that children want to notice and interact with them. A winter classroom display brightens your classroom, making the space better to work in. It is also a great opportunity to get pupils involved in helping create the display boards through art lessons.

For help with how to create a good winter classroom display, check out our top tips for creating display boards by the Display Lady.