Kids Room Tips - How can i decorate a small kids room without buying anything?

How can i decorate a small kids room without buying anything?

How can i decorate a small kids room without buying anything?I need a creative idea for a kids room that i dont need to buy and wont take me too long

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I love doing Kids rooms; but I'd be charging. I am a parent and have a suggestion or two. Initially GET THEM involved. Kids or all sizes; shapes; and colors; usually enjoy crayons. Give them some paper; alert them to the fact that YOU need THEIR help to decorate their room; and let them do PICS; then post them in the room. That notion can extend to other CRAFT ideas. Even a YOUNG child wants their OWN sanctuary; their own PLACE and space. Without having them damage the room; allow them the notion of doing what they want. Toys; plush animals; construction paper and past murals; etc. "WITHOUT BUYING" might be a "stretch" it's the ANYTHING part that's even more the stretch; unless; as a PARENT; you happen to have KID THINGS available already. With all due respect; YOU know your "kids" better than WE do, and what you can or want to afford. Heck, if you don't care let them do Ketchup and Mustard Murals. Give them the means and the motivation to BE INVOLVED. I promise you no matter what you or they do; the ideas will change pretty quickly.
I have two girls that share a room. I gave each one wall to decorate. Their room is purple. - I used colored paint (from the art section at the local department store it cost $2 - $3) to write their name(s) in cursive. - Then painted a huge rectangle on the wall in white. That became her "paper" to write on, she could write anything she wanted. Later we colored it in with different colored paints. - Since one was only 4yrs. old she did alot of scribbling so we can re-paint it when she's better at drawing. With a new white sheet of paper. Good luck Use your children's imagination (it works wonders)
Paint is always a quick and inexpensive fix...often you can get free or nearly free paint from home improvement stores and specialty paint stores because they always have batches that were not mixed to the exact specifications of the customer. The resulting paint usually has nothing wrong with it other that the fact that they goofed on the specified color. Get the kids to help. With a stencil sketch out wall designs of your liking and paint them in. To keep this whole project neat, you may need to monitor the kids, use painters tape or use stencils you can paint right over. You can also paint furniture to give it a fresh look. There are also some fun paints such as glow in the dark paint...(you could paint stars on the ceiling that don't show during the day) Magnetic Paint...( You could paint a section of wall in a craft area and when it dries, magnets will hang from it)
One great way is to use things you already have around the house. Get creative; use paints for colors, and craft items. One great idea is to get the kid involved; he or she will love their room even more if they help decorate it. An example of a decorating theme; flower theme for girls. Pick flowers and press them, placing them in picture frames and hanging them as art. Let your child paint pictures. Find a small chair sitting around your house, and embroider ( or, to be smart, have someone else embroider) flowers onto a cushion for the chair. Then paint the chair with a bright, cheerful color. You can also embroider a plain colored bedsheet with flowers, and use it as a bedspread or curtain. One great way to find creative ideas is to read home makeover magazines and watch room makeover tv shows. Then, when you find a theme you like, look for creative, cheaper ways to recreate that theme with different materials. If you do decide to buy anything, you can go to a discount store and purchase your necessary items from there; much cheaper than buying from a designer. I hope your room turns out great!
Well you could print some pictures or whatever the kid likes and put them on the wall.
I didn't read everyone's answers so I am not sure if this has already been suggested. Handprints...have the kid put his hands in different colored paints and make a border all around the room in different colors or just all over the walls. Or have family/friends come and have them all do handprints and write notes of love to the child.
try to make pictures also try to put plush toys around even make plush dolls thats wat i do with my niece since im 12
Plastic water bottles filled with colored water to make sun catchers on the windowsill. Character bed sheets make great curtains. Hang stuffed animals and dolls on the walls. Tie a piece of yarn around the animals neck and then use a push pin to hang it. Splatter painting the walls with primary colors, or colors your kids like, is fun. Put a bit of paint on a brush and then fling the brush at the wall so that the paint flies off and splatters. It takes a lot less paint to decorate a room this way. Get thrift store frames and frame some of their artwork to hang. Get glow in the dark stars from the 99cent store and put them on the walls and ceiling. Old sofa cushions make great lounge areas.
How about just rearranging furniture.
id say rearange the furniture and maybe paint its good if it mathches the carpet and certains
you go and make something out of something else and then post it on myspace becuz your cool like that, and then you makout with a cowboy and then say you invented pizza. or you could just buy something.
first look online at good site and see fung shai or nice arrangements then take everything out of the room andjust go crazy or do fung shai
you could go to good will or salvation army and dress up as a poor lady and beg them like a dog for some stuff and tell them you have no money in your pocket. or if you just wanted to be like a normal person, you COULD just go BUY some stuff.
Buy things that you can AFFORD then slowly it will add up =]
Kids like color and they like to write and scribble. Allow one wall in the room for just that and make sure you let them know that this is the only wall this is allowed on. I know you said you didn't want to spend money but get a can of oops paint they have some good colors for about $5.00 and paint. Makes some animal cut outs or some of whatever the child likes kids are so easy to please. We make it hard by buying them things they could really do without. Be blessed
check out yahoo groups they have plenty of regional groups where people give away gently used items. Simply request what you are looking for and let the offers hit your email box. You will be surprised at the ideas you will get with free stuff.Try it hey maybe you can even bless someone with some of your used items :)
if you have any old high lighters sitting in a drawer, even if they have dried up, pull out the ink pad from inside it, drop it in a clear vase, or an old soda bottle, add water to it, then at night the bottles will glow in whatever color the highlighter is. also, liquid laundry detergent, let them use it as paint for their walls., When it dries it will glow in the dark and during the day it disapears. Help them make paper cut outs of their favorite things from colored construction paper then use sewing thread to join them together in the form of a mobile and hand them from the ceiling. Also beads of all shapes and colors are good to hang. Take a set of old sheets and a curtain rod and create a fake window on an empty wall, then draw in the actual window with crayons to create the outside setting you like,(night scape, city lights, country fields, cloudy day, blue skies and butterflies with flowers, ect.....). Washable crayons work great on walls, they stay until you wash them off, and best of all, no repainting if you end up hating it later!! Also, if you want to spend a little something, you can do one wall with the magnet paint and another wall with chalk board paint. If you have wood furnature, use the chalk board paint for it, it makes a nice piece. Help them make their own magnets for the wall. they can hang pictures, posters, news paper articals, report cards, grade reports, ect......
I don't know about decorating completely, but I love writing on my walls w/ those Crayola Erasable crayons. Comes off w/warm water and a sponge, really easy. You could try those out if you like to draw...or let the kids at it, since u can always erase it.
Give them some old used crayolas and let them get after it.
it is a common say in our place : that " live to the best with what you have", may be your trying this economical way will bring fruit to the future of kids , as you save money can be more useful to buy which you have to buy, trying to decorate the rooms from available resources can be a joint effort with co- train kids too and bring what they like or get amused , i appreciate your idea to obtain from on line friends , same time your own homely way of decorating things from your own resources may be better idea , good luck lol
search "freecycle" on Yahoo. Freecycle is a local group where people give away things they don't need. Maybe you can give some things away, and someone will have something you want.
LET THE CHILD GET CREATIVE,THEN WILL FEEL THAT THEY HAVE CREATED THEIR OWN ROOM.USE PAINT AND PICTURES THAT THEY DRAW THEMSELF,BUT YOU STILL GOT THE LAST SAY.LET THEM DECORATE THEIR OWN MURIAL
just paint it.....
use what is around you and build things your self
I think that you must buy sth.to change the room
Move the furniture around. Search the house, basement garage, and attic for things to hang on the walls,lamps, desk,etc. If you come up blank ask relatives and friends if they have any leftovers.
well im 11 n when my mom helped me decorate my room she used some the stuff she used to have in her room when she was my age now my room looks great!!! the theme of my room is like lions n tigers n wildcats n stuff like that!!! so be creative!! good luck!!!!!
You might join your local Freecycle group (many of them have a Yahoo group for specific areas of the country) I recently gave away a large amount of mosaic tiles that I didn't need, and I often see craft supplies on mine. Looking at DIY sites like these: http://www.instructables.com and http://www.make-stuff.com/ and http://readymademag.com should get you started. I love the pictures on these sites - they inspire me to make things and I have a lot of fun doing so. Good luck!
thats an awesome question! some kind of homemade decorative things lol. sorry i'm not very good in the creative department!
nice question :)
The immediate (and not entirely serious) suggestion? Give them a box of crayons, and turn them loose. <g> Okay, so maybe that's not so smart. How about mobiles? You can use coat hanger for wire, a bit of string, craft paper, and a pair of pliers (to cut and bend the wire). Old CD disks can be drilled and hung, as well. Let them experiment. (Just bite your tongue and go along -- the extreme ideas will fade, in time.) wsulliva
try a site called www.freecycle.com that's the main link you look for your area & join the group you would be supperised at to what they have
Do loads of crayon scribble on the walls, and muddy footprints (use real mud) or smears of lipstick across the carpet. Just kidding - you can leave these details to the occupant.
Well you can use chart paper of different colours and cut them out into different shapes like stars and faces and paste them on the walls. If you are artistically inclined, you can paint a family tree on the wall; a giant tree with the various family members names and/or faces. Make chart paper shades for the bulbs of the lights in the rooms and cut shapes in the shades too like stars to make the room look nicer. You can line the window frame with chart paper flowers or leaves. Also, you can hang paper chains from the walls. Hope this helps :)
if i were you, i'd take any artwork they made themselves and hang it all over the walls
You can do many things. Start by searching through your house, and asking neighbors to donate items that they want to get rid of that are suitable for a bedroom. Go to your garage and find some things from previous projects that you can use for this room. Ideas for this can be: Spray paint Latex paint -----------> Tip: Use the paint to repurpose small pieces of furniture to make old furniture items 'match'. This is a great trick to make unmatched pieces of furniture look as though they belong in the same room. Just paint them the same color and purchase hardware for the front of drawers that all match. Hardware is not very expensive when you consider the price of buying a brand new bedroom set. Use wrapping paper scraps Use magazine clippings Use advertisement clippings ----------> Learn to do decoupage. This is an extremely easy craft skill that even kids can help to complete. Basically you lay down a piece of paper after applying the decoupage medium.... (glue type stuff)... it sticks.... then you let it dry. You come back after it dries and apply another coat of the decoupage medium to the surface to lock it onto the project surface. Very simple to do...yet makes an incredible look. A friend of mine did this to the drawer fronts of a small white dresser. She cut the 'Winnie the Poo' design off of a shoebox because she loved the picture on it. She actually decoupaged them to the front of the dressers. It was great. I thought they would fall off with so much use of the dressers everyday.... but NO ... they stayed on and never even looked vulnerable to wear and tear. I was very impressed with the whole technique. TRY IT! http://www.craftown.com/instruction/decoupage.htm ---------> You could also use an old large picture frame to make a collage of your childs artwork... or just feature one picture and just add ribbons as borders to it. Like scrapbooking on a large scale. http://www.crazyaboutscrapbooks.com/articles.php/tPath/3 ------------>Use paper lamp shades made out of your childs own artwork. Remove the shade from an old lamp. Make the design of the lamp shade out of paper that your child can color on and decorate. Give them only the colors that will work in the room. Allow them to use glitter, or beads to glue onto the paper... whatever will work. Perhaps punch holes in the paper to allow light to shoot out of the holes that will dance on a dark wall, or use transparent paper scraps to make a 'stained glass lampshade'. The ideas are endless. When the child is done... simply put the shade onto the lamp. Use things that you already have: ------------> Old empty CD cases... pop the center black CD holder out, put in some decorative paper, add your own photo... then mount to the wall with sticky Velcro. This way you can change out the pictures anytime you want. These do not have to be 'photos'.. They can be pictures of ballarinas, or baseball cards... whatever you think your child will like. ----------------> Old detergent bottles or 2-Liter soda bottles Cut the tops off the bottles leaving a small bowl size. Cover this with fabric that you get from old curtains or bed sheets that match the design of the room. -----------------> Use old curtains or bedsheets to cover items for storage. Such as old baskets that you have, old pillows that you can recover to match the room, or old plastic bottles that can be made into 'catch alls' for the dresser top or desk top. You can make these for toy storage or art supplies as well. -----------------> Use paint store sticks. (They are free at the hardware store.) Paint them or stain them whichever color you prefer. Glue on some springy clothes pins to the front to serve as an artwork display center. Put a small hanger on the front of the paint stick to hang it from the wall. Add as many or as few as needed to make the display center on the childs wall. Usually spacing them one foot apart is enough to allow room for the artwork to be displayed. ...............> Find an old headboard at a yardsale/fleamarket or free from a friend. Perhaps you already have one..... Paint it or cover it with fabric. Cover it with an old comforter that you glue or staple to the surface. This will be in place of the batting that most people buy for this purpose. An old comforter already has the batting in it and as a bonus is covered in fabric. (Batting is the fluffy stuff you buy in sheets for apolstering things.) No one will see the comforter because you will then again cover it in your desired fabric. Fabric can be purchased at the fabric store/ Wal-Mart/ craft stores.... you can find great deals and pick out EXACTLY what you want. Then you can be as creative as you want to be. Repurpose furniture ---------> Turn an old narrow tall bookshelf on its side where the shelving now forms 'cubby holes'. Have someone cut wood that will fit over the top of these 'holes' to form lids. Cover these with batting and fabric to make seating for the room. Use hinges on the back of the cushioned lids to allow the child to open his/her new toy box. Be sure to apply lots of wood glue to the shelves to hold them in place... and reinforce the sides of the whole shelf with glue and wood strips to hold it together. ***Remember, you can paint it, stain it, decoupage it, whatever you like to make it match the decor of the room. -----------> Find an old sheet. Fold it over and sew the ends up to make a pillow.... Stuff it with old clothes, old pillow stuffing, whatever you can find to make a big fluffy long floor pillow. Kids can use this to form a horseshoe to lay on while watching TV, playing video games, making a fort, wrestling, whatever makes them happy. (You can dye the sheet to make it the desired color that will match the room.) -----------> You can take a regular area rug and paint it to match the room as well. Just take a regular paint roller.... and paint it a solid color... then once it dries.... add whatever design you want to add to it. A small nap rug is best so it wont have long shaggy painted strands to trip people up. Hope these ideas help. :o)
I think it might be impossible to decorate a room without buying ANYTHING, but there are ways to do it cheaply. My personal hint is to go to www.whatisblik.com and check out the cute wall-graphic stickies in the "Wee Gallery" section. They're cheaper than pricey framed prints or wallpaper, and they're quicker and easier than painting. Put some Blik on a wall or two, and it will really change things around!
Hi! I have two step daughters who are 6.5 and 3.5 years old We bought a great map (not very expensive) and we put it on the wall over the desk. So one wall is already decorated. You can print pictures of you children, family and friends and make yourself a frame (basically you need paperboard that you will paint and then add the picture.) You can also make some "pate a sel" (2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt and 1 cup of water. You mix, create everything you want and then put it into the oven at around 150°C until becomes gilded. Then, (when it's cold) you paint it and can put your creations everywhere you want) For example, I wrote my step daughters'names and they were pretty happy!
Check out a local recycling center. They usually have paint that hasn't even been opoened yet for free.
Since you don't want to spend any money, you need to work with what you have. Why not hang stuffed animals, etc. strategically around the room. First come up with a theme after looking at what you have to work with. I am sure it will be a fun, neat and decorated room especially if you and your child/ren put it together. Have fun.
If this has been said, oh well... There is paint that makes chalkboards. You can buy it in different colors. Just paint the walls or half the walls with that paint and give them chalk and let the kids decorate all themselves.
Go to your local Yahoo Freecycle group and see what kinds of baby things people are giving away and ask for them or go to your local Craig's List and check out the "free" board postings...good luck! :)
Make a fun collage of pictures that you already have of your family and hang them on the wall. Intersperse them with the child's own drawings. If you can spend a few dollars, buy from a craft store the luminious stars and planets stickers and stick those to the ceiling and walls. They will glow at night. Hang a decorative quilt that you already own.
Join the Freecycle network in your area: http://www.freecycle.org/ There are always posts from people who have items that their kids don't want/need anymore.
u cant...cheapo
There are many ways to deocrate without buying things. FIrst, determine what the kid likes and use that as a template for the room....if it is a sport, then theme it with items related to the sport. There is no harm in placing items like golf clubs, tennis rackets, etc on the walls as part of a decorating touch. Next, see what accent piece you might have in other rooms of the house that would go with the theme. You may be surprised to find a side table or lamp that is in one romm will actually work better in the target room. Third, see if you have old useable paint for painting accents. if you do, then touch up using one of the many faux methods we see and hear so mich about. Finally, let your child have some input. It is their room, you know. Let hem ask grandma for the item you wouldn't buy. Relatives always come through! Scott in NY
when docorating my kids play room i used a tuperware bowl to make circles on the wall then painted them with some random acrylic paint that i had. then took masking tape and made squares retangle and triagle patterns on the wall. it was fun and creative.
Save their good artwork and hang/frame it on the walls. Repaint old furnature that works in their room.
I painted my daughters room a very bright magenta and then painted small daisies at measured intervals on the walls. The roof we did a cream colour and then I sponged mauve over that. I hung her teddies from the roof in a hammock I made from cheap gold thread, which I then threaded beads on. On her cream blinds a stuck a gold ribbon to the edge which I had also threaded beads to. On the wooden pelmets I painted a vine of roses. The room looks great and didnt cost a lot,
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