Child's Bedroom Mural Supplies

Series Summary

Kids feeling hemmed in by the drab walls in the bedroom? Bored with those same old posters and prints? Well why not add a safari scene to that mundane living space! With a wall mural one can conquer space and time to bring a scenic vista from anyplace one likes into one's very own home. Watch lions and zebras on a hillside while a meerkat watches with interest. Anything is possible with a wall mural! Children who love such Disney films as "The Lion King" will love a safari mural in the bedroom. In this free home decor video series, a professional artist will give instructions for painting a children's wall mural in the bedroom. Get tips on planning and gathering supplies. Learn how to outline the mural elements. Receive advice for painting the backgrounds and each aspect of the mural.

Video Transcript

"Creating mural for your child's bedroom is a long and complicated process but well worth the effort. As long as you make sure you have the necessary supplies on hand. You want to make sure you have everything you need so you don't have start and stop and go all the time and that you're able to do a great product. First, we're going to need to have a variety of rollers. I recommend having two small rollers two large rollers so that then you can alter if you're using them in a different paint colors. You don't have to wait to wash them and dry them. Also of course, need painting trays at least two of these. Again the same reason with the rollers so that you can be working with multiple colors at the same time. Also a good flat head screwdriver really great for opening up paint cans. A variety of brushes big just typical painting brushes nothing special about these guys just yet some nice masking tape. Of course, the paint roller covers they're going to be very important to us. I recommend having a foam brush. These are very good for some of the random detail work that we're going to be doing later on moving on, a good painting stick, a sponge. A sponge both to clean up the mistakes we have and also to again add some of the painting effects we're going to do today. Some good painting tape to cover up those surfaces a good strong sharp pencil so make sure you also have your pencil sharper on hand. Now, we're getting more specialized. These are brushes that are actually usually used for oil painting and acrylic. So, we're actually going to want these because these are going to be some of the detail work we're going to do that work pretty well also for doing detail on just wall paint murals. A painting pole preferably extendible if you can get one but also like one of the wooden poles would work just fine too this would make it both easier to paint, quicker to paint and also would help be able to adjust pole to have greater control over how you paint which is critical for a mural. At last but not least of course paint, paint lots of paint. Paint in small cans, paint in big cans lots of paint in addition to having a drop cloth to cover up everything to protect your surfaces."