Adorn a wall in your baby's nursery with homemade decorative accents. Craft ideas include:
- A shadowbox that displays precious baby photos and keepsakes such as the baby's birth announcement, newborn footprints and booties.
- A painted picture frame for one of baby's first pictures. Painted in one of your accent nursery colors, and personalized with wood cutouts that can be purchased at a craft store and then painted and glued onto the frame. A banner cutout can also be used and the baby's name and date of birth can be added later.
- A stencil of your favorite children's verse.
- Create a footprint growth chart.
- Using an overhead projector and a picture from a children's book, trace the projected image onto the wall and paint it to create an inexpensive mural.
- A needlepoint or cross-stitch wall hanging of a nursery picture.
- Change the hardware on a dresser to transform it from plain to fun.
- Create your own stamps by cutting out shapes from sponges. Use the stamps to decorate a rocking chair or other furniture and to tie together a common theme.
- Using stencils, or by drawing free-hand image, paint designs on wood furniture.
- If you wallpapered the room, use left over wallpaper on the back wall of shelves.
- Select plain, comfortable cushions for your rocker. Use stencils to embellish the cushions.
- Use a stencil and paint, to place a creative design on a plain roll down shade. You can create a repetitive pattern or create a larger design; creating an entire barnyard or celestial scene. NOTE: If you are creating a celestial scene, pinprick holes into the stars to create a twinkling effect when light filters through.
- Make your own roll down shades. Pick up a kit at a craft store, and choose your own fabric.