Music BBs
I love making music-theme BBs! Here are a couple of ideas - hope I can describe them well enough:
1. I like to do a bright background (yellow or blue maybe). Make scale with black paper. The notes are actually flowers kind of "upside down". The bloom is on a line or space, the stem goes up, add a leaf or 2 at the top. You can have quarter notes, eighth notes, etc., depending on the # of leaves on each flower. Scatter more flowers here and there on the BB. Title I used was "March into Spring ... and SING!"
(exclamation mark was also a flower :-)
2. The entire BB is a grand piano: start with a white background. Lay out keys along the bottom with black paper for the keys and the tiny spaces between keys. Basically the entire right side is a sweeping curve of black paper in the shape of a grand piano. I put the title in black letters in a curve along the piano: Music is a GRAND adventure!
3. I like the "Music in our Schools" theme of "Connect with Music" - I did a multi-disciplinary BB once with "Connect with Music" sign in the center. Music-themed fabric as background. Then all around the BB, I put headings of different subjects: math, science, art, history, etc. Under each heading I had pictures, photos, charts, CD covers, etc. that showed how music could be found in all these areas. Then I "connected" them all back to the center sign with a length of yarn. It was very effective at showing how all these areas are inter-related.
I hope these ideas spark something for you!
clydesdale115