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20 Travel Classroom Theme Ideas

Show them the world from your classroom.

There’s nothing like a travel classroom theme to help inspire curiosity, foster an explorer’s mindset, and give your kids a little global perspective—even if many of your students aren’t yet travelers themselves. (Emphasis on the  yet .)

1. Use your classroom door to let students know they’re taking an adventure. 

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You can show students your travel theme first thing with artful door décor. The Now Boarding message will let students know they are taking an adventure when they enter your classroom. 

2. Make map art. 

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An old map can get new life as travel-themed art. Add inspiring words or one of these cool quotes curated from EF Tours about travel, using die-cut letters or permanent markers. 

3. Call your homework assignment boards road maps. 

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On your designated whiteboard, chalkboard, or bulletin board areas that show the week’s assignments, a Weekly Roadmap sign cleverly continues your travel theme.

4. Put up an interactive postcard display. 

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Postcards from your own travels can do double duty as art and provide teaching moments about international destinations. Invite your students to bring in their own family postcards to add to the display.

5. Use vintage luggage for book displays. 

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Old luggage from your parents, grandparents, or a thrift store makes for clever and cute storage for paperbacks. It’s a travel-themed take on the book bin and allows titles to be easily seen by students. 

6.  Frame geography-themed board games. 

History and social studies teachers are known for sharing their love of Risk! and other world affairs-themed board games with their students. If you have old games that are missing pieces, or pick them up cheaply at thrift stores, display the boards’ cool artwork of the  seven continents on your walls. By the way, our friends at EF Educational Tours lead groups of teachers and students to  destinations on six out of seven of these continents   (someday, Antarctica!) as well as many different types of tours for various areas of study .

7. Drive home travel with a road trip themed display table. 

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Grab some black paper and all the books you can find about road trips, domestic travel and transportation. Add an iconic green and white road sign, and your students will be transported during their library or classroom visits.

8.  Give travel books an aspirational display. 

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Another awesome book display idea. This one places books about travel or set in far off lands front and center for reading ideas, easy borrowing and decoration, too. Be sure to subscribe (for free!) to the EF Journal and feature in your travel section.  

9. Brand your lost and found area the baggage claim. 

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All it takes is simple signage and suitcase clip art printed on labels to brand your coat closet or bag hook area baggage claim. 

10. Turn a bulletin board into a flight information display “screen.” 

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This is a super idea for that random bulletin board you never know how to fill. Transform it into a flight- or train-information screen with black paper and white or green lettering. Feature cities you’re covering in your curriculum. Your creativity is sure to bump you to first class in the classroom-theme department.

11. Adopt a favorite country as your overall theme …  

Rather that focusing on general travel, or international or domestic locations, why not choose a particular country? We love this Spanish teacher’s homage to Mexico! 

12. … or a particular historic period. 

Art teacher Cassie Stephens adopts a different destination classroom theme each year. For her ancient Egypt theme, she sponge-stamped dollar store straw mats and painted her windows. During the year she incorporated ancient Egyptian techniques and history into her students’ art lessons.

13. Jazz up a neutral palette with colorful flags. 

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If in years past you stuck to a neutral theme, such as black and white or beige and brown, just add colorful international or U.S. state flags for some pops of color. 

14. Study world flags and then invite students to design their own flags. 

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You can also offer a lesson on the flags of different countries by inviting students to research flag designs. After they learn about what the colors and symbols represent, invite them to create their own flags that symbolize their own lives and origins. Then all you have to do is display the students’ work. Don’t you love it when assignments become classroom art?

15. Add an international skyline display to a frame for a “window” into another land. 

A large picture frame or unused window can reveal a skyline to another land. Crafty teacher Gennai Henning of Bungalow 327 asked her art teacher colleague to draw the Paris skyline so her students would feel like they were really there. Wow! You could also create a group project with your students to recreate or create a skyline, or you could hang a panoramic photograph poster. 

16. Use a map to showcase the settings of books your students will read in the coming year.

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This school library decoration links the books on display to their international settings. A map, yarn, and color copies of book covers come together to provide beautiful reading inspiration. Another piece of inspiring reading material is the free EF Tours Journal . Every issue includes inspiration for your classroom, interviews, and unique perspectives on travel. The journal is a celebration of globally minded educators. 

17. Add a world map rug. 

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If it’s time for you to order a new classroom rug, search for a world map design. You can also pick up a world map welcome map, so that when students cross your classroom threshold they subtly enter a new world of learning.

18. Repurpose thrift store clocks for a time zone display.

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Make your classroom feel like a cosmopolitan hotel and teach your students about time zones with a display of multiple clocks. Set each clock to a different local time in the world or within your country and label the time zones. 

19. Add an oversized wall map to an empty wall. 

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Oversized sticky murals make wall art and map displays a cinch and offer lots of possibilities for travel learning and dreams.

20. Inspire your students with examples of global good.

Add images of historical or current global activists to a bulletin board map display. You will inspire your own students to become good global citizens and make the world a better place. 

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Travel Classroom Theme Ideas for Elementary Teachers in 2024

A travel classroom theme helps you create an adventure-filled learning environment where your students feel like world travelers whenever they enter! Teachers love this theme because it helps create a classroom that can be described as calm and neutral. They also love it because they have the flexibility to take the theme where they want it to go. For example, they can create a simple modern space or a cool vintage environment depending on what color elements and DIY decor ideas they pull in. This theme works well for both lower and upper elementary classroom decor. Learn more about a travel classroom theme below and scoop up this travel classroom theme packet !

Travel Theme Bulletin Board Ideas

Below are some travel theme bulletin board ideas for elementary teachers.

Travel Bulletin Board Backgrounds

Navy blue, brown, or black butcher paper can be used as a bulletin board background. You can use a large map or several smaller maps for a background. If you choose to use fabric as your bulletin board background, simple colors like black, brown, and navy provide a nice backdrop.

Travel Bulletin Board Trim

In addition to traditional border, put these items around the perimeter of your board.

• boarding passes
• little plastic compasses

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Travel Bulletin Board Title Ideas

• “(Grade) is Going to Be an Amazing Journey!”
• “Oh the Places You’ll Go”
• “Hard Work Will Take You Around the World”
• “Now Boarding”
• When creating your own titles, use words like passport, journey, adventure, or aboard.

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7 Ideas for a Travel Themed Classroom

• Use old suitcases or travel trunks as storage in your room.
• Collect travel brochures and add them to your class library.
• Ask friends and family for globes to use as decor throughout the classroom.
• Hang inflatable globes from the ceiling.
• Incorporate flags from around the world into your theme.
• Dedicate a large space to a map of the world. Title it, “Reading Can Take You Anywhere” and use it to mark locations that are settings in books that you and your students read throughout the year.
• Set up a display of books that relate to the theme by standing them on a counter or shelf.

Themes to Pair Your Travel Theme With

Get access to all of the Clutter-Free Classroom decor themes and color schemes in the Elementary Classroom Decor Collection , including the ones listed below that pair really nicely with a travel theme.

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• around the world classroom theme decor
• green, blue and brown color scheme decor bundles

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Travel Themed Classroom Pictures

The travel classroom theme bundle includes BOTH the original version (shown below) and the newly updated version (shown above). In the newer version, we used all new clipart which includes much more diverse characters. Also, we made the entire bundle 100% editable so not only can you customize it with your students’ names and details specific to your classroom, you can now translate EVERYTHING into other languages too. This has long been a request from teachers of ELLs and immersion classrooms. Both versions are available in the Elementary Classroom Decor Collection .

In closing, we hope you found these travel classroom theme ideas helpful! If you did, then you may also be interested in the free travel planning organizer below as well as these classroom decorating posts:

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How To Make A Travel-Themed Bulletin Board

When it comes to our offices, whether at home or work, we want to create a zen environment and a little area that expresses who we are. With all the travel pins and stickers I collected that were just lying around, being unused, I decided to create a cool art project with them! I’ve always wanted to own a bulletin board since I’m always working by a desk, so I bought one and transformed it using those pins and stickers – which I can now be grateful to use them.

Making a bulletin board to display your collected travel souvenir pins and stickers is fun and easy. I use to display my travel pins on the front of my backpack and it’s honestly not a good idea because I lost a few of them (whoops!) as they fell off somehow. However, with a bulletin board, you can be assured that they will be safely placed and it’ll display your fondest travel memories right beside your workspace. Also, if you’re a travel junkie like me, you’ll appreciate doing an art project this way.

Here are the materials you need:

1. A corkboard (preferably a 23” x 17” sized one) – I used U Brands Cork Bulletin Board, which you can purchase at Amazon for $14.99 .

2. A magnetic board (preferably a dry erase board that is an 11” x 14” sized one) – I bought mine from Michael’s, but you can buy yours anywhere.

3. Foam mounting squares – These will be used as the double-sided tapes that will help your magnetic board stick onto the corkboard and help with other props you want on there.

4. Magnetic paper – I used ProMag Magnetic Paper, which can be purchased at Michael’s right here on their site . It comes with 3 sheets, which is more than enough for a good amount of stickers to turn to magnets. These will be used for you to stick your stickers on and be able to have their magnetic capabilities.

5. A printed colored paper of a medium-sized world map – This is just used for aesthetic reasons and it will add a cool prop haha. You’ll see what I mean later. I used this USA map right here on Maps-world.net because it’s readable, pastel-colored (love that!), and makes for a good size when it’s printed without adjusting its size.

6. Letter stickers – You can buy this at any arts and craft store, it’s preferable to use small-sized ones so they can easily fit onto your geographic map. These will be used to create an adventure-inspired quote that you can stick right on the map. I find quotes are always a nice touch to put onto a bulletin board.

7. Scissors – You will need these to cut up all your stickers.

8. Lastly – Gather all your pins and stickers together. You can also gather your already-bought travel magnets too to put them onto your magnetic board too after. Also, if you have polaroid photos you want to display on the bulletin board, make sure you have those with you too.

How to make your lovely bulletin board:

So, first off, you’re going to have to take off all the backings of your pins and then stick them in on one side of the corkboard. I did this first, so I can visualize what goes on next to it.

Second, you can watch this YouTube video I created below to see what to do next:

I hope you enjoyed this short tutorial for an art project that I really believe will make your wall cute and exciting for your office or room! It’s great to put together for both your sentimental items and to have a place to organize your thoughts. After all, a bulletin board serves vital information and truly communicates something and with this kind of board I made, anyone will pick up how much you love to go on adventures. A conversation starter and a reminder to what is to come… 

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