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Wall Decals for Nursery or Playroom

July 5, 2011 on 2:41 pm | In Nursery | No Comments

Make your own wall decals! 

Here’s a creative and inexpensive way to decorate your child’s room. All you’ll need is a pattern, some clear Contact paper and some scissors. 

If you want to do a trial run, cut out a pattern from a coloring book. Color it with colored pencils, markers, water colors or crayons. If you’re eager to get started decorating an entire wall or room, find a pattern or theme from free online graphics sites, draw your own or use a coloring book. I’ve found the best patterns are fairly large and aren’t finely detailed. The larger patterns expose larger areas for a great pop of color. 

Take out your roll of clear Contact paper. Cut a square large enough to extend beyond your cut pattern by 2 in. Cut out a second square of clear Contact paper measuring the same as the first one. One square will be the back of your decal and the other square will be the protective covering for the front. 

Turn one square over with the blue lined paper side down. Place your pattern in the middle of the square. Peel the blue lined paper away from the second square. Center the sticky side of the square over your pattern and press into place. Tip: It’s best to apply a small area at a time being sure to smooth out any wrinkles or bubbles as you go either with your fingers or a ruler. Trim around the pattern leaving about a ½ in edge. 

To apply your decal, peel away the blue lined paper backing and place the decal onto your wall. The decal will remove easily with no marks or stickiness left behind. 

Patterns are everywhere! You can trace around wooden puzzle pieces, cookie cutters, wooden cut-outs (found in craft stores) or die cuts (found in scrapbooking stores). How about shapes? Color and cut out various sized circles, rectangles, squares or triangles. Think concentric circles or squares created from four different colored triangles. Have fun with the process!!! 

You don’t have to limit the placement of the decals to walls. Add them to chairs, wooden rockers, toy chests, etc.

I plan to give mine to my granddaughters; so, they can decorate a wall over and over again however they wish. Creative play. I’d love to see how you use this idea.

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