| Fantastic kid’s room murals are fun and | | | | be as simple or detailed as you wish. Use stencils |
| inexpensive. They add tons of personality and | | | | to add anything from flowers, butterflies & |
| color to a room. Best of all, murals help create | | | | picket fences to sea shells, fish & seagulls. |
| wonderful childhood memories that will last a | | | | Use your sea sponge to dab on tree tops and |
| lifetime. All you need to get started is a few craft | | | | foreground bushes. Use lighter green for bushes |
| supplies, a kid and some imagination! | | | | and trees far away and slightly darker shades for |
| Pick your wall. The great part about painting a | | | | the ones close up. |
| mural is that you can totally customize it to the | | | | Place your characters. Use a projector to project |
| space in your child’s room. You can paint | | | | your characters directly onto the wall. Remember |
| murals wall to wall, paint a single wall, paint the | | | | that characters made smaller will appear farther |
| ceiling or just a wall section. It’s completely up | | | | away. Lightly trace the characters. Try using chalk |
| to you and your hearts desire! | | | | or a charcoal pencil when tracing. Mistakes wipe |
| Choose your characters. Grab your kids and their | | | | off easily! No projector? No sweat! Enlarge your |
| favorite story books. Look through and find your | | | | characters on a photo copy machine. Trace them |
| child’s most loved characters. Your kids will | | | | with a charcoal pencil. Place them on the wall |
| love this. Decide which ones you are going to | | | | charcoal side down. Firmly rub the tracing with a |
| place in your mural. Don’t worry. No art skills | | | | #2 pencil. The charcoal outline will transfer to the |
| are needed. You are not going to be free handing | | | | wall. Keep in mind that your character will be |
| these drawings. Just pick the favorites. It’s | | | | facing the opposite direction, so plan accordingly. |
| O.K. to mix and match characters form different | | | | Paint your characters. This is no more difficult |
| books. | | | | than using crayons in a coloring book. Grab your |
| Create your background. Take a hint from Disney | | | | water cleanup craft paint and start painting. Stay |
| and Winnie the Pooh. Keep your background | | | | in the lines. Use inexpensive sponge brushes for |
| colors light and soft. This will allow your characters | | | | large and medium areas. Use detail brushes for |
| to really stand out. Unless you are artistically | | | | the small stuff. Want to really make it pop? After |
| inclined, don’t make this complicated. Take | | | | it dries, outline it with a darker color. Refer to |
| your sea sponge and dab on a very light soft blue | | | | your story books for inspiration. |
| color for the sky. Sponge all the way down to | | | | Your kids will be so excited; they’ll hardly be |
| your designated horizon line. Use white to add | | | | able to wait to show their new mural off to their |
| fluffy clouds. Use a light soft color for the grass | | | | friends. You might find yourself doing a little |
| or ground. Use slightly different shades of green | | | | bragging too! Create a room that you and your |
| to sponge on some hills. | | | | child will never forget. Have fun. Be playful. Do it |
| Add your foreground. This part is optional and can | | | | together. |