A kid's bedroom should spark imagination and encourage creativity as well as reflect your child's interests. Young children may prefer glow in the dark painted elements in place of a night light or a designated space for ever-changing wall art. Older kids may prefer painted backgrounds designed around hobbies or activities. Painting a kid's bedroom with wall murals and special paints is a way to create a custom environment designed specifically for your child.
Chalkboard Paint Ideas
Create a blank slate for your kids to explore their creativity by painting an area of their bedroom with chalkboard paint. Chalkboard paint is available in a variety of colors, or you can make your own colorful chalkboard paint with a few basic supplies. Paint a chalkboard headboard behind the bed, cover one accent wall with chalkboard paint or create a chalkboard in the wall space below the chair rail. Your kids can change their bedroom wall décor on a whim with chalk and erasers. Separate the chalkboard section of a wall, such as a headboard, with a wood trim frame to prevent chalk from accidentally spreading to regular painted surfaces.
Fairy Garden Bedroom
Decorate a kid's bedroom to resemble a fairy garden with glow in the dark and regular latex wall paint. Paint the tops of the walls and the ceiling with a sky blue background and white fluffy clouds. Paint shades of green below the horizon line to mimic a garden meadow. Fairies love water, so add a garden pond beneath a large, leafy tree with branches that span more than one wall. Paint on or hang a real garden swing from one of the tree's branches. Paint groups of flowers in the meadow and fairies flitting around the walls with glow in the dark paint. Wall murals are not difficult if you paint them in layers from the background forward. Project images onto the painted background or trace them on the wall using stencils or templates. Acrylic paints work well over a latex paint background; use acrylics to paint smaller mural details.
Rainforest Wall Mural
Create a magical rainforest in your kid's bedroom by painting a wall mural filled with lush green trees that reach from the floor to the ceiling. Add at least one waterfall to the background; paint a rainbow near the top for a whimsical touch. Paint animals, insects, flowers and foliage typically found in a rainforest setting. Monkeys, tropical birds, passion flowers and ferns are a few of the elements that make a rainforest mural come to life. Encourage the kids to help research species to determine which ones they want for their bedroom wall.
Mountain Background
If your kids enjoy hiking, camping or rock climbing, paint the walls in their bedroom in a mountain range motif. Snow-capped peaks, blue hillsides and green valleys are an appropriate background for a climbing wall or a tent playhouse. Encircle the bedroom with the mountain range or create one accent wall as a focal point. Painted waterfalls, hiking trails, mountain lakes, bears, goats and mountain lions are ways you can embellish the mountains with true-to-life features.
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