Kids rooms: designing a bug themed bedroom

If you are looking for a unisex bedroom theme for your kid's rooms, a bug themed bedroom is an excellent option. Here are some ideas you can use to create a bug themed bedroom for boys and girls of any age.

1. Paint a mural of the outdoors. Make the top two-thirds of the walls and the ceiling sky blue. Paint the lower third of the room green. Paint grass blades in the green section that extend slightly into the blue. Paint ladybugs, worms, crickets, bees, dragonflies, and the occasional butterfly all over the room. These images can be stamped or stenciled onto the walls, and then you can add simple details. (If the room is strictly for girls, you may want to add a white picket fence and flowers to your mural.)

2. Create your own bedding and window treatment designs. Using fabric paint and sponge stamps or stencils, you can paint the same images onto solid color window treatments and bedding. Another option is to purchase insect iron-on patches and add them to your bedding.

3. Purchase bug art. This artwork can be simple paintings of happy little insects, or it can be scientific close-ups detailing the parts of the insects. You can also purchase mounted bug shadow box art for your little scientist.

4. For a small child, you can purchase two copies of a picture book and frame each side of each page. The pages can then be placed in chronological order on the walls. Some titles to look for are 'Hey, Little Ant' or 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' because they give at least a small bit of educational information about the creatures. Insect calendars are also great sources for wall art when taken apart and framed.

5. With so many bugs in the room, it might be fun to add a mesh tent cover to the bed for a boy or add a mosquito net to the bed for a girl. You can go one step further and have the bed be a twin-sized mattress inside a real tent.

6. You can purchase several insect mobiles regardless of the age of the child, and hang them from the ceiling around the room.

7. Install track lights and add bug shaped pendants to it. These are most readily available in dragonfly, butterfly and bee shapes.

8. Purchase flowerpot and garden stakes shaped like bugs and use to decorate the room. You can use them as window tie backs, glue them to your cornice board, or decorate your headboard or dresser. You can also stand in flowerpots in the corner of the room.

9. Insect drawer pulls can be found in pewter, brass, and multicolored ceramic. You will find butterflies, snails, bees, ladybugs, and more.

10. There are fun bug toys you can purchase for display like the electronic talking 'Hopper' from Disney/Pixar's Bug Story Movie. He guards the room and makes threats to intruders. This is just one of many toys you can purchase for a bug themed bedroom.

11. Purchase plain and inexpensive bedroom accessories from the dollar store and local department stores. Decorate accessories for your bug-themed room by adding bug stickers to these items. You can use friendly bug stickers, or realistic bug stickers depending on the age of the child.