A great music advocacy bulletin board for October!

October 10, 2013

Terrifying Tempos

I love using a hallway bulletin board to teach content to kiddos! It’s Halloween time and I wanted to put something out in the hallway that was seasonally appropriate, fun, and still had included musical content. So I came up with the “Terrifying Tempos.” I printed the words out in a series of cool fonts downloaded free from dafont.com. The words “Terrifying Tempos” are spelled out in a font that looks like skeletons and the bulletin board headline reads “Terrifying Tempos: G’Autumn!” Gotta love a play on words!

The original bulletin board was pretty easy to create. I printed out the letters for the bulletin board header, ran them through the laminator, and then cut them out with hard edges on the paper cutter to try and give a sharp effect even making some in the shapes of old-timey caskets. I also printed out a variety of tempo words with very short descriptions and did the same process laminating and cutting. I added some foam ghosts (found in the Target One Spot/Dollar Aisle) and I posted them on a dark blue background. Easy and fun bulletin board for October!

Photos below are me in the process of putting up the bulletin board. I’m not done filling in empty spaces with the ghosts or adding in a few more tempos to the set. Click any image to enlarge.

[su_spacer]Edit: I originally created this set in 2013 with simple ghosts cut outs, printed letters, and a few different featured tempos. A year or so later I went back to really flesh out the set. I put all the tempo words onto clip art images that resemble old headstones and also included a Beat Per Minute on each one so that kids can start to understand which tempi are slow and which are fast. I found some clip art of old wooden caskets and superimposed some words that describe each tempo. Finally, I added some pumpkins with eighth and quarter note stems and added bat wings to some other quarter and eighth notes.

[su_spacer]I’ve added the set on Teachers Pay Teachers in case you’d like a quick and easy bulletin board set to print and post on a board. Click on the images above to see a bigger picture of the types of things that are included. You can find the full set with a longer description HERE.