How to make a DIY information board / honor board

How to choose material for making a stand?

The most popular material for making information boards is cork. This material has a lot of positive characteristics and is suitable for use in institutions of any type. It is cork that is chosen for stands for kindergartens, as it is a safe and hypoallergenic material. Let us also note other advantages of cork boards:

• Moisture resistance;
• Durability, wear resistance, resistance to mechanical damage;
• Excellent impact force retention;
• Resistant to chemical detergents;
• Fire resistance;
• Resistance to the growth of fungus and mold;
• Quite a long service life.

To decorate the back side of the stand, you can use a thin sheet of plywood or fiberboard.

Stand without frames

What do you think about a regular stand that doesn’t use frames? At first glance, such an idea may seem devoid of originality, but it all depends on the correct arrangement of photographs and color palette. In this case, try to place photos of the same size in one row to create the effect of completeness of the picture.

It will be easiest to implement such an idea in houses and rooms where there are plasterboard walls, since photographs are attached using ordinary buttons. As an alternative, you can use white tape, but it will slightly “clog” the composition with its appearance.

How to make an information stand with your own hands?

It is absolutely not necessary to have special knowledge and skills to build a stand yourself and add it to a room, a group in a kindergarten or a school class. In order for the product to fit harmoniously into the interior of the room, you need to carefully consider its design. You can experiment with both the main shade and the design of your stand. As the main finishing material, you can use paint, fabric, self-adhesive film and much more.

To frame the stand, you can use a frame made of wood, plastic, aluminum, foam, cable ducts that are suitable in width, and so on.

During manufacturing, it is also necessary to take into account the method of fastening. For more convenient use, a hanging mounting method is recommended, since installation with glue can cause a lot of inconvenience in the future.

How to properly design a corner

First, you need to remember the uniform requirements for the design of corners in the classroom. We should also not forget about the differences in the presentation of information, its distinctive features in elementary school, middle and high school.

Here are a few basic requirements on how to decorate a cool corner with your own hands. This:

• aesthetics;
• creativity;
• reflection of the maximum number of areas of student interest;
• careful selection and preparation of information taking into account its relevance and significance;
• availability of educational information.

From the above, it is clear that the classroom corner should contain not just some pictures and articles, but necessary and useful information. Photos of self-made stands are presented later in this article.

Recommendations for making a stand

1. Take a responsible approach to choosing the location of the structure. It should be well lit and accessible to everyone. Try to visualize its location in the selected location.
2. A stand decorated in bright colors will look much more interesting and attractive, but its basic design should still match the style of the room.
3. Take care in advance about the reliability of fasteners.
4. Before you begin your crafting work, make sure you have all the necessary tools, including a sharp knife.
5. Having selected the location of the structure, determine its size and prepare the materials that will be needed for decoration.

Installation or installation of a stand

If you have enough funds, you can order a stand from a specialized company that produces stands, both template and custom-made.

The installation of a ready-made classroom corner can be carried out independently, with the involvement of students’ parents, or by school employees or other organizations.

The main requirement when installing stands is unconditional compliance with safety regulations and compliance of the corner with all rules of safe operation. Stands must be firmly fixed to the wall, have no sharp corners and contain materials that could cause injury to children or harm their health.

Do-it-yourself stand: features and manufacturing principles

So, the first thing you need to start with is the basis of the design. Once the size of the stand is determined, you need to select a cork board and plywood of the appropriate size and glue them together using glue or liquid nails. Next, the workpiece must be painted, covered with fabric or film, and you can begin to decorate it.

You need to start designing the design with the pockets in which sheets of information will be placed. For this purpose, you can use plexiglass of a suitable size or durable stationery files. The number of pockets can be absolutely any.

Next, you need to determine the theme of the design. This could be a lesson schedule, a corner of a healthy lifestyle, congratulations on the holiday, and so on. The name of the stand is an important part of its design. The title should be bright, large and eye-catching. Remember that an information stand is a business card of an organization, so special attention should be paid to its design. Letters for the title can be cut out from bright plastic or from unnecessary magazines.

Remember about the frame of the stand. With a frame, the design will look more aesthetically pleasing and laconic.

Sheets with information and other important information can be attached to the stand using buttons or safety pins, but if we are talking about a child care facility, then it is worth finding an alternative method.

Advantages of making your own stand

1. The ability to create a unique, original, inimitable design, convenient location, shape and size.
2. By making the structure yourself, you can choose materials that perfectly match the interior of the room.
3. You will have the opportunity to place on the stand only the information that you need, as well as choose the optimal location of pockets on the board.
4. By making your own information board, you will have the opportunity to choose the color scheme that best suits the overall style of the room.
5. You don't have to adapt to a design made from a template, as you can arrange the pockets and information fields as you wish.
6. Handmade work is a great way to emphasize individuality and add zest to the image of the room.

Making the structure will not take much time and will not take much effort. In just 30 minutes you can make a simple, small-sized design. With stands of larger size and complexity you will have to tinker a little, but rest assured that the result will exceed all your expectations.

The stands are actively used by people, both at home and in educational, medical, transport and other institutions.

Important information, plans for the future, memorable photographs, an organizer, a list of employees, a class schedule, and this is not an exhaustive list of information that can be located on the stand.

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Selecting a topic

The choice of topic should be taken with full responsibility. In this case, you should be guided by the age characteristics of the children, their interests, wishes, and the size of the area on which the classroom corner will be located. Do-it-yourself design allows you to choose all sorts of themes and styles.

The theme of the corner for primary classes can be related to fairy-tale characters, cartoon characters and so on. The main condition is the brightness of the colors and ease of execution.

So, for example, you can decorate a corner in the form of a sun with rays, a train with carriages, a tree, a flower meadow, a rainbow, and the like. Here everything depends on the imagination of the teacher and his creative abilities.

The topics for the stand of middle and high school students are more strict. Do-it-yourself cool corners can be designed in the form of a book, mathematical, language, literary, sports or artistic symbols.

Purpose of corner design

The classroom corner is designed to become an assistant for the teacher in organizing the educational process. To do this, the information posted on it must help achieve certain goals:

• maximum expansion of students' horizons;
• effective and high-quality work with parents;
• improving the results of educational and extracurricular activities;
• development of creative inclinations, realization of the creative potential of students;
• class unity, fostering collectivism;
• formation of aesthetic taste of students.

Selection of required materials

Having decided on the topic, it is necessary to count the total number of windows in which information will be posted, and also title each section in accordance with generally accepted requirements for what a classroom corner in a school should be. Decorating such a stand with your own hands gives room for imagination and creativity.

The choice of raw materials for making a stand depends on the state of the financial aspect and the potential of the teacher.

With a tight budget and a teacher’s great creative potential, you can make the perfect stand from simple materials at hand. Cardboard, plywood, fabric, and thick paper can be processed perfectly.

Below is one example of how you can decorate classroom corners with your own hands for an elementary school.