Decorating a Kids Room with a Game Theme
Choose a light blue color to paint the room in. It will serve as the perfect backdrop to most games and when your child wants different decorations it will work well with most others. Then you will want to look at local thrift stores for the game you want to decorate with. If you can find more than one, go ahead and get the extras, you will probably need them. Now use the game board as inspiration for decorating. If you are decorating with games that have winding colored trails like Candyland or Life, you can create a colored trail by sewing different colored fabric blocks together. Then all you do is tack it up on the wall. Mount the actual game board in a place on the wall where it will be quickly seen, like above the bed. Then use parts of the game as wall decorations as well. For example if you are decorating with a Monopoly theme put some of the play money and deeds on the wall. If you are doing a Clue theme, enlarge some of the suspect cards and put them on the wall.
Another place to look for decorations to put on the wall is in scrapbooking stores. There are now many embellishments and papers that are made to look like the actual game board or playing pieces.
Another great way to decorate in this theme is to use the pieces as handles on furniture. For example with Clue you can use the pieces that denote the players (the yellow, green, red, white and so on). Just remove the handles that are already there and either glue or tack the piece onto the furniture. This can also be done to the handles on closet doors.
When making the bed cover and pillows look for fabric that has the same colors as the game and try and come up with ways to tie it into the rest of the decorations. Here are just a few ideas. With a scrabble theme you can make the pillows look like the letter pieces. Your child would probably love to have their pillow spell out their name. With Candyland you can use some of the same fabric you used to make the trail on the wall and create a quilt like bedspread. You can also make or get pillows that are shaped like different candies. With Life you can get a green bedspread and sew on the word Life just as it is on the game along where the foot of the bed would be. For Monopoly look around for fabric that has a money print (this may take a little looking, but it is out there) and use it as the bedspread. Remember to get some extra of whatever fabric you choose, so that you have enough to make curtains.
Now it is time to add those small decorating touches. Decorate the garbage can with game pieces. If the game you are using has dice in it, get one of the large square beanbag chairs and sew dots on to make a dice. Decorate lampshades to match the game. Use game pieces on the ties for curtains. Get creative and have some fun, the possibilities for this theme are endless.
