Ideas for a Personalized Wall Hanging for a Baby
Decorating your new baby's room often proves exciting, if not a little overwhelming at times. Wall hangings offer the proud parents a way to personalize their baby's room decor. Good wall hangings pull the room's theme together, connect the room to the child or connect the room to the parents' bond with their child. Does this Spark an idea?
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Wooden Wall Letters
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Wooden wall letters offer a simple yet creative way to personalize your baby's room. Some companies and craft stores sell precut, unpainted wall letters. Experienced craftspeople may also consider cutting their own wall letters. Use white primer and acrylic paints to decorate the letters needed to spell your child's name, and hang the letters with ribbon or picture frame hangers. Some companies also offer previously painted letters.
Cloth Wall Letters
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Cloth letters have an effect similar to wooden wall letters. Instead of cutting the letters of your child's name out of wood, find or create a sewing pattern for each letter. Choose fabric that matches the room's decor and hang the finished letters on the wall with ribbon or thread.
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Painted Canvas
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A parent with a little bit of painting skill may use a painter's canvas or wooden plaque to add a personalized wall hanging to their baby's room. Paint your child's name on the canvas in a simple or ornate form according to taste and ability. Consider decorating the canvas with other pictures appropriate for a baby's room, like clouds, trees, polka dots, ladybugs, butterflies, trains or animals.
Picture Book Pages
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If you have a favorite nursery rhyme book, fairytale book or picture book you read to your child, use copies of the pages or prints of the book's pictures to decorate the walls of your baby's room. Framing pictures from a favorite shared book personalizes the room by noting a specific connection you have with your child.
Shadowbox Decor
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Use shadowboxes to provide extra dimension to your baby's wall decorations. Shadowboxes have an empty space of 2 or 3 inches between the frame's back and glass that permits three-dimensional objects. Add objects to the frame that match the room's theme or personalize the frame with stickers spelling out your baby's name.
Photographs
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Photographs directly connect the room with the baby and the baby with his family. Personalize the room with pictures of your baby for basic wall decorations. Your baby's roots come from your roots, so also consider adding photographs of you and your spouse, the baby's grandparents and any other notable relatives or ancestors.
Quilts
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If you or someone you know quilts, consider making a small quilt for your baby as a wall decoration and for your child's future use. Match the pattern to the room's theme or choose fabrics that have some significance to the relationship you have with your child. Create a small quilt capable of hanging on the wall.
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- Photo Credit baby's bedroom image by Paul Hill from Fotolia.com
