Ideas for Kids Stickers

There are stickers available for almost every theme or occasion
Stickers naturally appeal to many children. They are bright, sticky and come in a variety of colors and sizes. Take your child on a sticker search at your local craft store. You are likely to find a sticker for any activity or occasion.

Art

An obvious use for stickers is art projects. Draw a landscape scene on construction paper and add sticker people or animals. Make greeting cards with paper, markers and seasonal stickers. Sticker eyes add visual interest to art projects such as paper bag puppets, egg carton caterpillars or self portraits. Foam stickers are available for adding another dimension to your child's art. Use foam stickers to decorate visors, toy boxes or placemats. Encourage your child to peel the stickers off the backing himself; doing so will develop your child's fine motor skills.

Tasks

Stickers can personalize your child's chore chart or potty chart. Use a ruler and marker to draw a grid with boxes slightly larger than the stickers. Label the chart accordingly. Use a sturdy piece of paper and display the chart where your child can easily view it. For younger children, the stickers themselves are often the only reinforcement needed. For older children, the stickers can represent a reward. Maybe she gets a special dessert or outing after earning ten stickers. Include your child in choosing the stickers and rewards to make the chart more meaningful and motivating.

Educational Stickers

Letter and number stickers work well for educational activities at home. Let your child explore the alphabet and encourage him to spell out his name or simple words. Write a word and ask your child to copy it using stickers, make an alphabet book, or sing the ABCs as he searches for each letter. You can also put a letter on each page and have your child draw a picture of something that begins with that letter. Use the number stickers to create a number book. Number each page and have your child draw corresponding sets of objects.

Decorate with Wall Decals for Kids

Wall decals for kids can freshen up the look of your child's room without straining your budget. They allow you to easily adapt to your kids' interests as they grow, and can be a hassle-free way to spruce up a room without having to paint or apply wallpaper. Here are few ideas for choosing kids wall decals:

Step 1
Realize that kids wall decals are easy to apply, they won't damage walls when removed, and can easily be re-positioned. With this in mind, you can choose from mix and match designs, letters, and shapes that can be rearranged to grow with your child.

Step 2
Consider your child's evolving interests when choosing wall decals. There are many designs and themes to choose from that are appropriate for kids from babies through the teen years.

Step 3
Consider choosing wall decals that inspire your child's imaginative play. Wall decals for kids can range from simple geometric shapes to large, intricate designs. Castles, enchanted forest scenes, princesses, superheroes, knights, and warriors can provide plenty of fodder for kids' imaginations.

Step 4
Kids wall decals can be applied to any painted surface. Use them to spruce up painted children's furniture. Geometric shapes, hearts, stars, letters, and numbers are great ideas for children's desks, tables, and chairs.

Room Design Ideas for Kids

Basic wall and floor colors provide a versatile base for many different styles.
The best room design ideas for kids are versatile enough to change along with a child's changing tastes. You can throw thousands of dollars into a princess bedroom for a 5-year-old, but chances are she'll want a different style in another five years. Designs that combine large basic elements, such carpeting, along with small decorative elements, such as themed bedding, provide a room that's attractive now and easy to redecorate in the future.

Princess Bedroom

1. A princess-themed room design doesn't have to cost a fortune to make a little girl feel like true royalty. Burgundy carpet and cream walls with pink moldings provide a versatile and warm base for the bedroom. A dark-wood, colonial-style set with a four-poster bed, night table, desk, chair and dresser provides sturdy furniture that will last for years. Pink curtains with rose tiebacks create attractive window treatments, and cartoon princess pictures in wood frames create attractive wall decorations.

Try cream sheets with a pink and burgundy rose-patterned blanket and matching pillows. A round, gold-crown-topped canopy consisting of long pieces of white tulle, pink tulle and burgundy ribbon hangs above the pillow-area of the bed. The canopy curtains cascade down the back and sides of the bed. A pink lamp with a golden crown-shaped shade decorates the night table, and frog-stuffed animals decorate the top of the princess- and crown-painted pink toy box.



Wilderness Bedroom

2. A wilderness-themed bedroom is easy to create if you use removable wall stickers to provide decorative details. Wall stickers, or appliques, are decorative plastic shapes you can secure over a flat surface and remove as needed without worry of damage. Forest-green carpet, sky-blue walls and a sky-blue ceiling provide a basic earthy base for the room design. Large tree- and small-animal-shaped wall stickers provide a wild-forest theme, and glow-in-the-dark star ceiling stickers provide a starry night theme.



A basic log bed, night table, dresser and toy box are sturdy furniture that enhance the wilderness theme. Leaf-patterned bedding and curtains provide a cozy forest accent. A tree-shaped lamp with a leafy shade decorates the night table, and stuffed animals decorate the bed. A stump-shaped table with matching stools provides a drawing area, and a log-framed corkboard provides a display area.

Spotted Bedroom

3. Combine gender-neutral colors and assorted spots to create a unisex kids room with a modern style. White walls, blue carpets and simple black furniture provide a subtle base to complement large splashes of color. Black linens with an orange, green, blue, red, yellow, white and black spotted blanket and matching curtains provide more color.

Assorted green, blue and yellow wall applique spots and colorful round picture frames provide wall decorations. An overlapping red and orange spotted rug provides decoration for the area in front of the bedroom door. Colorful round baskets on black shelves provide storage and tie into the spotted theme