Red Ribbon Week Displays, Door Decorations & Activities
Red Ribbon Week Displays, Door Decorations & Activities
The Red Ribbon Week pages will provide you with great resources to help your students celebrate being drug free! Ideas within these pages include: journal activities, lesson plans, and a large amount of door decorating ideas.
Your creativity can help other teachers.
Don't forget to include additional resources-documents, web sites, or a photo.
Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest drug prevention campaign in the country and takes place each year during the last week in October .
Students can celebrate drug awareness with these great "Red Ribbon Week" display and door decorating ideas. They work on classroom doors and bulletin boards. All of the displays include an image, so click on the smaller images within this page to view the larger display.
100% Me! Using red paint, students make a hand print on white construction paper or tag board. Once dry, they cut out the hand in the shape of a circle. These hand prints, along with a class photo, are then placed on the door. Finally, the following text is written on a piece of chart paper during an Interactive Writing lesson:
100% Me!
I like you!
You like me!
Together we will stay
DRUG FREE!
Submitted by: Jennifer
"Be a Star! Don't Do Drugs!" An artistic door that is easy to create with metallic paints.
Submitted by: Jennifer
Drug Free Cheer Students write their own "Drug Free" cheer. Submitted by: Jennifer
Drug Free Interactive Writing During an interactive writing lesson, students share their thoughts about what it means to be drug free. Submitted by: Jennifer (Click here to view writing detail & here for the writing process.)
"Drugs Make You Weak, So Stay Strong and Stomp Out Drugs" Students create shoe prints that they can then write their name on. Submitted by: Jennifer
"Hand in Hand We Make a Stand" Students trace both a hand and foot on red construction paper. Submitted by: Jennifer
"Hand in Hand We Stand - Just Say No! " Using red and blue poster paints and large pieces of construction paper, students create hand prints and add the title text to the poster. Submitted by: Jennifer
"Hop Away From Drugs" Students decorate simple frog shapes and then write why they want to "Hop Away" from drugs. Great if you have a frog theme in your classroom. Submitted by: Jennifer
"Hugs, Not Drugs" Students write their name on teddy bears made using an Elison die cut. Submitted by: Jennifer
"I Won't Do Drugs Because..." Using regular white paper, students complete this sentence and draw an illustration to go with their message. Submitted by: Jennifer
"Instead of doing drugs I like to..." Students finish this sentence with an activity they like to do. They then write that on a large index card and add a picture of themselves doing that activity. Submitted by: Jennifer (Click here for a close up of the index card.)
"Life is a Party Without Drugs" Students write their names on shapes to add to the display. They can also write drug free messages. Submitted by: Jennifer
"Mrs. ____ Class Leaves Drugs Alone" This Red Ribbon Week display is great for the fall season as well. Using poster paints, students paint their own leaf and add it to the 3D tree. Twist and turn your brown construction paper for the tree. You can also include small wires within the paper to make the branches come off of the door. Submitted by: Jennifer
"No Bones About It-Don't Become a Fossil-Don't Do Drugs Students use Q-Tips and black construction paper to create skeleton. Submitted by: Jennifer (Click here to view an up close photo of the title.)
"On Target to Be Drug Free" Students write drug free messages. Submitted by: Jennifer
"Only You Can Choose No" Students write drug free messages. Red construction paper is used to make the red ribbon. Submitted by: Jennifer
"Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to ___" Students draw illustration for saying no to drugs. They then draw illustrations for activities they could be doing instead of involving themselves in drugs. Submitted by: Jennifer
"Under the Sea Says Be Drug Free" & "Fish Want to Squish Drugs"
You can either use enlarged fish and sea life clip
art for students to color and decorate, or you can have them draw and color their own. Either way, you will then want to hang blue paper and decorate it with other ocean items. Submitted by: Jennifer
"United Are We to Live Drug Free " Draw and paint the Earth. Students then draw, color and cut out pictures of themselves to paste on and around the Earth. Submitted by: Jennifer
"We Put a Cap On Drugs" Students decorate a bottle cap. Submitted by: Jennifer
"We're High on Elevation, Not Drugs" This is a great display for anyone who lives in the mountains. Students draw themselves doing activities that can be done at higher elevations. (This could easily be adapted to any region.) Submitted by: Jennifer
Printable Worksheets
Check out our large selection of "make your own" worksheets! Quickly make drug-free crosswords, word search puzzles, word scrambles, match-ups and other great puzzles.
ACTIVITIES
drugs r dumb
A collection of activity ideas for a variety of 'theme' days you can host all through the week.
Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest drug prevention campaign in the country and takes place each year during the last week in October .
This indicates resources located on The Teacher's Corner
