How to Decorate a Kid's Room With Rockets

Apollo 15 Rocket

Enhance the dreams of your future astronaut by decorating his room with rockets. Start out with painting starry walls and ceilings and build on your ideas according to budget and imagination.

Things You'll Need

• Paint (regular and glow in the dark)
• Star stencils
• Curved plywood
• Mylar sheet
• Rocket theme linens

Instructions

1. Choose a blue background paint, and cover the walls and ceilings with it. In a random fashion resembling the starry skies, stencil the whole room with tiny glow-in-the-dark star shapes in glow-in-the dark paint (see Resources).

2. Find a good spot to paint a brightly colored rocket on the wall. Have your child sketch it out on paper first and have him also paint it on the wall.

3. Build a rocket get-away in the corner of the room. Purchase and paint two large pieces of curved plywood. Attach them to the wall with brackets and leave a generously sized opening. Top the opening by creating a cone shape from thick mylar. Seal it with silicone adhesive and put soft pillows inside.

4. Purchase rocket theme bed linens and bedside lamps, mirror and dressers (see Resources).

Tips & Warnings

• Sand all edges on your plywood rocket before painting. They should be rounded to avoid scrapes and injuries

Resources

• Curved Plywood
• Solar System Mobile
• Glow in the Dark Paint
• Mylar Sheeting
• Rocket Bedrooms and Accessories