| Creating a school themed bedroom has never been | | | | improvement store. Paint in your tree trunk with the |
| easier! Especially when you implement some of the | | | | magnetic paint and add green leaves at the top with |
| nine simple ideas provided in this article. | | | | regular paints. Next, you will want your child's |
| Find a solid red comforter or a comforter with a small | | | | participation in making all of the alphabet leaves. Collect |
| print gingham comforter for your child's bed. Next add | | | | real leaves from outdoors, use them as patterns and |
| primary color throw pillows for comfort, reading and | | | | cut them out of colored craft foam. Next, draw or |
| lounging at nap time. | | | | stamp all of the letters of the alphabet onto your |
| Install a large molding at the chair rail height of her | | | | leaves. |
| room and add wooden peg hooks. Your child will be | | | | Lastly, buy some magnetic stripping, cut to size and |
| able to hang coats, mittens, small bags, purses and | | | | glue on the back of your magnetic foam letters. Now |
| other objects on these hooks. Keep the wall below the | | | | your child can learn, teach and be creative by spelling |
| chair rail very neutral so that the items become the | | | | words on their new learning tree. |
| focal point and not the wall itself. | | | | Make a school bus message board to hang on the |
| Above the chair rail, install a chalk board wall border. | | | | wall. Buy a 13 inch by 36 inch piece of cork Paint the |
| These wall borders can be found at any discount | | | | cork yellow and cut the cork to the shape of a bus. |
| wallpaper store or online store and they have a true | | | | This can easily be done by enlarging a photo of a bus |
| chalkboard surface. By supplying chalk, your daughter | | | | and tracing it onto the cork. Next cut out two 4 inch |
| can be creative and teach her class at any time she | | | | circles for the wheels from black heavy paper or |
| likes. | | | | cardboard and adhere them. You will need 6 of 3 |
| Add a tall armoire that could resemble a locker. Paint | | | | ¾ inch cork squares for the bus windows, |
| the furniture a cheery yellow color which you can use | | | | painted blue. Attach your windows and pin on photos |
| as an accent color with your school house red. Add | | | | of your child and her friends in each window. Below |
| shelves and bins to your new locker so that your child | | | | the windows, add two 21 inch magnetic tapes running |
| will have lots of storage. | | | | horizontally down your bus. Leave about 2 inches |
| On the floor create a hopscotch board on a plain sisal | | | | vertically between the two magnetic strips. Between |
| rug with rubber backing (non-skid). This can be done | | | | the magnetic strips spell SCHOOL BUS with black |
| easily by creating a rectangle template out of heavy | | | | letter stickers. Your child will be able to hang notes with |
| card stock to use as a template. The template should | | | | paper clips on the magnetic strip and this makes a |
| be about 10 inches by 11 ½ inches. Find the | | | | very clever and functioning room décor piece. |
| center of the rug and trace your rectangles in the | | | | Find an old school desk at a flea market, yard sale or |
| form of a hopscotch board. Next place number | | | | antique shop. Also add small wooden painted chairs |
| stencils in the center of each rectangle. Outline the | | | | for more students. Be sure to accessorize with plenty |
| numbers and paint them in with red acrylic paint. Use | | | | of dolls and stuffed plush animals who can double as |
| red bias tape and glue that over the outlines of your | | | | students for your childs class. |
| rectangles. You have now completed a hopscotch | | | | Add a small table and chairs with puzzles and coloring |
| board for your child's playground If you would like, you | | | | books. Make a small activity center around the table |
| can glue ribbon or rickrack to the backside edges, | | | | with stackable bins to hold pens, crayons, glue, paper, |
| allowing it to stick out over the rug to finish off the | | | | coloring books, puzzles and more. If there is room add |
| edges. | | | | a desk that your child can grow with. |
| Create a learning tree on one wall. This can be done | | | | Any of these nine ideas, or all of them, make quick and |
| by drawing a simple tree in pencil on a wall. You will | | | | inexpensive alternatives when creating a school house |
| need brown magnetic paint from a paint or home | | | | themed bedroom decor. |