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Decorating a children's room is all about the child's personality.Toy hare on a bed in a children's bedroom image by terex from Fotolia.com
Rearrange the furniture. Changing the direction of the bed and other furniture of the room will give the room a free face-lift. - 2). Recycle soup cans by cleaning and spray-painting them. They make effective pencil or crayon holders.
- 3). Hang craft items from the ceiling, such as homemade construction paper flowers, butterflies and stars; or hang toys, such as plastic army men or airplanes. Attach fishing line to the items, by looping it around the toy and tying a knot. Use the measuring tape to measure the length of line that you will need to hang them so that they are unreachable for the child but will hang low enough for visibility. Cut the line with scissors. Tie a knot in the other end of the fishing line. Stand on a stepladder and push the pin through the knot and then into the ceiling.
- 4). Cut out pages of pictures that your child enjoys from an outdated calendar or storybook. Examples may include horses, cars, kittens or castles. Trim the edges of these pictures into cloud shapes. Loop clear tape to the back of the pictures. Tape them to the wall in groupings. They make effective wall decals.
- 5). Choose a jacket with a hood that your child has outgrown to hang upside down on the wall. Attach it to the wall with push pins in each sleeve and in the hem. Drape it so that the hood is hanging away from the wall, not against it, and the middle of the jacket is sagging. This makes a perfect little sac to display lightweight small stuffed animals.
- 6). Pull those jigsaw puzzles out of the closet, especially the ones with missing pieces. Work the puzzle with your child and, when you're finished, you have the perfect picture for the wall of his room. Use puzzle glue to attach the pieces onto a sheet of cardboard. Hot-glue a tab from a soda can to the back of the cardboard and then use a hammer and a nail to hang the puzzle onto the wall. Fill in any blank areas with other items, such as wheels, round cereal or candy.
- 7). Spell your child's name with blocks. Set them on a windowsill, nightstand or bookshelf. If you don't have enough blocks of a specific letter to spell the name, you can recreate this same effect by using Legos. Use a hot glue gun to hold them together.
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