| When decorating your baby nursery, you may want to | | | | handprint border. You can use your baby's handprints |
| use a border around the walls. But don't feel that you | | | | to create a border around the room. Get some non |
| are limited to buying and using wallpaper borders in the | | | | toxic latex paint in a color or colors that you want. Use |
| baby nursery. Here are some ideas for making | | | | a sponge or a foam brush to lightly coat your baby's |
| interesting baby nursery borders for your baby's room: | | | | hand with the paint and then press the hand on the |
| Stencil a border around the room using items that | | | | wall where you want the border. It is best to mark off |
| match your baby nursery's theme. For example, if you | | | | where you want the border ahead of time. Also |
| have a Winnie the Pooh nursery theme, you can | | | | decide how far apart you want the handprints to be. If |
| create a border by stenciling Pooh, honey pots, bees, | | | | you want, you can do a set of handprints and |
| etc. around the room. For a Beach themed baby room, | | | | footprints every month as your baby grows. It would |
| you could stencil a border of palm trees, beach balls, | | | | be a unique spin on a growth chart for your child's |
| seashells, or beach buckets. | | | | room. |
| If you have a car themed baby nursery, create a race | | | | Another idea for a border is to use wall decals. They |
| track border by painting a road around the room with | | | | could be of the alphabet, nursery rhymes, animals, or |
| a dark gray paint. If you want, paint a finish line | | | | items related to your room's theme. Place them equally |
| somewhere on the border. When the border has dried, | | | | spaced apart all the way around the room to create a |
| use a hot glue gun to attach race cars (matchbox or | | | | quick and easy wall border. |
| hot wheels cars work great) around the race track | | | | When it comes to decorating your baby nursery, |
| border. For a train themed baby room, a similar border | | | | remember to let your creative juices flow freely. You |
| could be created by painting train tracks and gluing toy | | | | may surprise yourself with what you are capable of |
| trains on them. | | | | creating! |
| An alternative to a growth chart is to create a | | | | |