Have you put on your thinking caps for your Red Ribbon Week door decor yet? Your winning door is guaranteed to be on our list!
The teachers on the Teach Starter team know decorating your classroom door is a must for Red Ribbon Week, and yet coming up with a brand-new idea year after year can be … a lot. With that in mind, we’ve come up with some of our favorite ways to give your classroom entrance a fresh look and give students in your school a taste of what you’re discussing in the classroom. Our list includes some seriously easy door decorations, plus we’ve pulled together quite a few options that can show off student work.
We’ve rolled out the fun puns for decorations and even tied in some spooky Halloween themes so you get double-duty out of your classroom door decor. Read on for our favorite ways to decorate the classroom door for Red Ribbon Week!
(Easy) Red Ribbon Week Door Decorating Ideas
1. Don’t Let Drugs Make You Extinct
Go prehistoric with your door decorating this year with a dinosaur theme that reminds kids that using drugs is so dangerous you could end up in the same boat as the T-Rex and stegosaurus. We love this door because it’s incredibly easy to set up, and it’s a hit with younger kids who tend to be wild for dinosaurs.
You can keep it simple with dinosaur cut-outs and bulletin board letters on top of green or brown bulletin board paper. Best of all? Decorating your door with a dinosaur theme for Red Ribbon Week sets you up for Dinovember … so you don’t have to tear it all down at the end of the week!
2. Don’t Let Drugs Turn You Into a Monster
This Red Ribbon Week door decorating idea leans directly into the time of year, drawing from Halloween monsters. It’s another easy door decor idea because you can make use of your students’ work to decorate the door.
Have each student create their own monster, add the words and you’re done!
3. Say Boo to Drugs
Boo! Drugs are scary and ghosts are too. The teachers and students of Harpeth Middle School in Kingston Springs, Tennessee got creative for Red Ribbon Week using a Ghostbusters theme and “Drug Busters” takeaway message that led us to a host of ideas to pull Halloween and Red Ribbon Week together on your classroom door or bulletin board.
Photo courtesy of Harpeth Middle School in Kingston, Tennessee
Want a simple way to make your own version? These cute ghost characters from our Halloween “Boo Crew” door decoration kit are perfect for decorating a black door. Print out the letters using our no-fuss Blank Letter Cutouts on white cardstock, and it will match the ghosty color theme and complete your title.
4. Heroes Don’t Do Drugs
There’s no question kids love superheroes. There is an endless supply of Marvel movies, comic books and more to prove it. Bring that love into your door decorating this Red Ribbon Week to highlight the drug-free lives that are required if you want to be a true hero!
Here are a few ways you can pull this off:
- Have students write paragraphs about their personal hero to post on your door.
- Take photos of each student and add a superhero cape (red for Red Ribbon Week, of course) to show off your classroom full of drug-free superheroes on your door.
5. Drugs Won’t Be a Part of My Story
This Instagram-inspired Red Ribbon Week door decor kit came right from the clever minds of the teacher team at Teach Starter. Complete with all things social media, including hashtags and screenshots, you’ll be sure to win the school decorating contest with these vibrant, printable drug-free templates.
6. Lei Off Drugs
Who doesn’t love a good tropical theme with bright colors and fruity features? Take a trip to the dollar store for some cute leis to add a 3D look to this Red Ribbon Week door idea!
Our pineapple letter cutouts will give you all the letters you’ll need to spell “Lei Off Drugs,” and your students can help give a pop of color with these pineapple classroom decor cutouts. To tie it all together, these pineapple bulletin board borders can help give your door edges a clean finish!
Lei back and enjoy your Red Ribbon masterpiece.
7. Hand in Hand, We Take a Stand to Be Drug-Free
As a teacher, you have enough on your plate! Get all your students involved in the door decoration process by coloring these Hand Templates and writing why they want to live drug-free. Place the hands on your door in rows with the fingers interlocking so they look like they’re holding on to each other.
8. Don’t Get Wrapped Up in Drugs
Mummy themes are great excuses to use toilet paper outside the bathroom. Find a student volunteer, and trace their outline on a piece of butcher paper. Cut out the figure, hang on your classroom door, and then decorate the figure as a mummy using some cheap toilet paper.
Add some bat and candle cut-outs from our Wrapped Up in a Good Book Bulletin Board Kit for some extra creepy elements!
9. Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet, a Drug-Free Life is Super Sweet
Candy is sweet and so is a drug-free existence! Start with a paper backdrop and use these tasty candy letters to help your drug-free life message pop. Go a step further, and glue on some Halloween candy for fun!
10. We’re Having a Ball Being Drug Free
Combine a sport-themed activity with Red Ribbon Week. Use our Bowling Ball Letters for the title and have your students write in how they can have fun being drug-free on these Sports Word Wall Cards to complete the door.
11. No Drugs in Our Club
From Frozen to Paw Patrol, sometimes pop culture is the best way to get the point across! Tie in a cute character like fourth-grade teacher Raven Durant cleverly included in her Minnie Mouse, “No Drugs in Our Club” Red Ribbon Week door.
Photo courtesy of 4th grade teacher, Ms. Raven Durant
12. Do the Math, Drugs Don’t Add Up
Drugs don’t add up, but we love getting kids hooked on math! Decorate your Red Ribbon Week-themed door with math symbols or go a step further and make your door a giant calculator with the words in a box where the screen would be.
13. Hugs Not Drugs
Don’t have much time? Don’t you worry! Keep your door decor simple with a rhyme: hugs not drugs, and throw in a pug! This Red Ribbon Week classroom door decoration idea is a hit because you don’t need much more than a cute (and huggable) pug, and simple banners that read “Don’t Do Drugs.”
Photo courtesy of 7th and 8th grade ELA teacher Jeanne Nettles
14. To Be Frank, Drugs Are Scary!
What if there were a way to create a single bulletin board that blends both Halloween and Red Ribbon Week? Have your students cut out our Fran and Frank (Frankenstein’s monster) templates from our Red Ribbon Week and Halloween Door Decorating Kit. Once colored in, these frighteningly creative characters will adorn your classroom door..letting everyone know that drugs are scary!
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