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Nancy,
This is a hard theme...I am doing it this year too. I am picking up a book today from the teacher store around here so if there is some good stuff in it I will let you know.

First of all, my door is a castle
with a knight on either side -- guarding it. I had to make this myself because I couldn't find any great patterns.
On the open side of the door, I have Royal Readers written with Purple Fancy Script. With that, I am going to take all of my kids pictures and have them look like kings, queens, knights, jesters,...etc.
I just teach reading...so some might not apply to you. Then we have

an incentive board that I wrote, "Red Hot Readers" which has a dragon shooting flames out of his mouth. This is where I am going to put their incentive sheets.

Another bulletin board says, "Books can take you Anywhere." I found some really cute Fantasy material at Wal-Mart that is my background.

Another bulletin board says, "Reading is Magical" and it has different fantasy background material.

I have a 5' dragon in my room that holds a book. I bought it from Trend. I also have a poster that has a 10' banner that has a dragon on it and it says, "Catch a dragon by the Tale." This I also got from Trend. I ordered book bags too for my students that have the same dragon and "catch a dragon by the Tale" written on them.

I ordered a new series of low-level chapter books too that are called, "Dragon Slayer Academy." Since I do low-level reading for grades 3-5 this is pretty appropriate.

Also, there is some great websites that have some wonderful ideas too. I can't remember the URL but type in castle theme and I think they come up.

I am trying to think of some more things I have in my classroom...I'm at home right now. If I think of any other ideas, I'll post more.

Also, if you have some ideas to share, I would love more!!!!