Decorating a baby's room or nursery can be a lot of fun as well as educational, especially when a parent uses letters as a focal point in design. Letters in different colors, shapes and sizes provide splashes of color around a nursery as well as giving a theme to a boy or girl's room. Letters can be made of plastic or wood, painted or decorated with strips of fabric or even placed on walls and objects through various forms of stickers or nursery art; designs and ideas only limited by the imagination of the designer. When decorating baby's room or nursery, always keep safety in mind, and make sure that smaller objects like letters won't injure the baby.
Step 1
Purchase nursery wall letters made out of wood in a variety of sizes to spell out a baby's name, or to create verses or rhymes on the wall. Some online websites like the Letter and Sign Shop encourage parents or designers to create names in a variety of font or size styles.
Step 2
Display blocks or letters in different arrangements on bedside or changing tables to see what looks good, or try tacking larger letters designed for wall hangings onto the wall using duct tape or packing tape just to see how they'd look before attaching them with nails or hanging them with hooks, depending on how the letters are made.
Step 3
Visit your local toy store and buy a selection of letter blocks that can be stacked in a whimsical fashion or to create words and then glue together using a hot glue gun or all-purpose glue. To glue blocks together with a glue gun, plug in the glue gun and insert a glue stick in the chamber near the top of the device. Let the glue gun heat up for about a minute.
Step 4
Hold a block in one hand, the glue gun or bottle of all purpose glue in the other. Point the tip of the glue gun or glue bottle toward and close to the surface of the block, depress the handle and squirt melted glue or all purpose glue over the surface of one side of the block. Quickly, put the glue gun or glue bottle down and pick up a new block, pressing their surfaces together in any design you'd like. Hold for several seconds to allow glue to set.
Step 5
Create a letter mobile to hang over a crib or changing table in a nursery or baby's room. Purchase wood letter blocks from local toy stores or hobby shops and then use a small drill bit to drill a hole through the center of each block. String different lengths of fishing line, ribbon, yarn or string through the holes.
Step 6
Create your own mobile hanger by taking two small, round dowels, approximately 1/4 inch wide and about 20 inches long, and fasten them together in the center in an X pattern with yarn or ribbon.
Make sure the mobile is balanced by hanging blocks in equal numbers from each dowel. The strings holding the blocks don't have to be the same length, but they should be equal in weight to keep the mobile from dipping more to one side than the other.
Step 7
Insert a eyelet hook or screw hook into the ceiling where you want to hang the mobile. After you attach every block, test the balance of the mobile by hanging it from the hook suspended from the ceiling to make sure it stays level, rearranging blocks or number of blocks if necessary.
Step 8
Decorate mirrors, windows or walls with letters in different styles and materials. Mirrored letters are popular and can be hung with ribbon designed in polka dots, gingham checks or stripes in every color of the rainbow.
