| Stimulate your child's senses by creating a safe haven | | | | onto a wood floor. This requires a bit more advanced |
| where imagination can run wild. In this article you will | | | | skill, but there are many sites on the internet with |
| find eight simple steps that will help you create the | | | | specific directions on how to paint a glaze to achieve |
| perfect magical forest bedroom theme adventure. | | | | a stone floor look. |
| 1. Paint the ceiling of your room blue. | | | | 6. Create clouds with pillow stuffing. |
| To start your bedroom transformation you will want to | | | | Pillow stuffing can be purchased at your local craft |
| paint the ceiling of your room in a shade of blue to | | | | store. Glue large globs of pillow stuffing to your blue |
| simulate the sky. | | | | ceiling to create fluffy white clouds in your sky. |
| 2. Bring your sky into the room. | | | | 7. Make a tree out of bunk bed uprights or a post in |
| Paint your walls approximately two feet down from | | | | the room. |
| the ceiling in the same blue shade that was used on | | | | If you have bunk beds, continue the wood posts to the |
| the ceiling. This helps to bring your sky down into the | | | | ceiling of the room. If you don't have bunk beds you |
| room and adds dimension. | | | | can still install a post somewhere in the room to create |
| 3. Paint the remaining portion of the walls green. | | | | your tree. Use netting that has been spray painted |
| The green will simulate grass in the forest and will | | | | green and gather it up on small ceiling hooks to create |
| provide a base layer for the additional decorative | | | | a tree. Swoop some of the fabric down and then |
| elements that we are going to add. It helps to create | | | | back up for an amazing 3-D effect. |
| balance and carries the theme throughout the room. | | | | 8. Use forest creatures as decorative accents. |
| 4. Use murals or stencils to add trees. | | | | Finish off your magical forest decorating theme by |
| Select different sizes of tree murals or wall decor | | | | adding plush and plastic forest animals to the shelves |
| stickers and add them to your walls to develop your | | | | and on the top of dressers. Add a plush squirrel and |
| magical forest design. If you have artistic flair, try | | | | other plush friends to your child's bed for play and to |
| drawing the tree designs on your wall and paint them | | | | complete the theme. |
| in yourself. Use your artistic expression, because it's a | | | | Any of these eight ideas, or all of them, would be easy |
| magical forest, anything can happen. | | | | and affordable ways to transform your child's |
| 5. Add faux paint patio pavers. | | | | bedroom into a magical forest play land. |
| Use a faux painting technique to paint patio pavers | | | | |