BUTTERFLY ROOM WITH PICKET FENCE We painted my five-year-old daughter's walls a periwinkle blue. Her furniture pieces and ceiling fan are white, and her bed is pink. My husband made a white picket fence and put it on one long wall. He cut 6' boards in half and notched the tops to look like pickets and mounted those on two long boards attached to the wall. You could use actual white plastic fence panels (but not wood panels, since they may contain arsenic). We mounted the fence boards high enough for the sweeper to fit under them, and paid attention to where the wall outlets are!

I bought a butterfly quilt in blues and pinks and used the designs on it as a guide. First I drew some random butterflies (11 large ones, 8" - 12") with chalk on the wall, then painted them with various shades of acrylic craft paint (adding white to darker shades instead of trying to buy matching paint). They're far from perfect but mimic the quilt very well. You could add flowers too. I finished the room off with a butterfly nightlight, pillows, and canopy. (The same idea would also look great with yellow or light green walls and flowers, etc.) Fun! --momto2girls1boy

 BUTTERFLY HAND/FOOTPRINT MURAL My daughters share a butterfly-themed room. I made butterfly hand/footprints and framed them -- the butterfly body uses the outline of the foot; the wings are made of two handprints per side, and I added some antennas on top. I used regular paint (my older daughter chose the colors). You could also write the child's name on the bottom, or the year. This is something she will treasure now and you will treasure later. -- aimsman27

 BUTTERFLIES IN A GARDEN Butterflies go perfectly with a sky theme. They are pretty easy to handpaint, but there are also tons of inexpensive butterfly stamps and stencils at craft stores. Get mini butterflies from party stores -- plastic, felt, whatever -- and hot-glue them onto plain sheer curtains. Then, from a home-improvement store, get the miniature picket fencing that is about 12" high and run it around the base of her room (or use it just for the headboards -- adorable with a little ivy stenciled in and out). --brohm00

 BUG THEME I used red, yellow, white, and green as my colors (bees and ladybugs). I painted the walls yellow, and about 7" from the ceiling I taped off and painted a border with foam sponge shapes from the 99-cent store -- bugs, flowers, leaves. I bought a red, white, and yellow plaid pattern for the bedding. (For a boy's room a couple of different shades of blue and green would be nice.) Cute, and so easy! -- mkkalischefski

 BEES AND FLOWERS Bumble bees are a great accessory for a garden theme, especially with a throw rug or pillow for accents. If you are starting from scratch, redo your carpet grass green and your walls to look like sky with clouds. Purchase a 3D sunflower or have it painted on one wall and then make the stem out of a measuring stick that you can glue directly on the wall for your child's growth chart. You can paint the measuring stick light green and add accents. If you have extra room, consider adding a brightly colored picnic table for a drawing space to brighten a corner. -- Lynn

 BUGGY CORKBOARD I bought a large framed corkboard and also a poster-size wood frame with backing. I painted the frame yellow at first and added a light coat of red, and then lightly sanded off the red for an aged look. I used the frame to display artwork and pictures -- a favorite b-day card, etc. I painted the corkboard frame with a bug theme -- a child's finger/thumbprint ants and bugs along the bottom of the cork -- and then I just added legs and antennas! -- mkkalischefski

 IVY ROOM Arts/crafts stores offer stencils of plants, paint rollers with a leaf pattern, and fake plants. Maybe get lots of fake ivy and use it to create a border at the wall/ceiling area, or drape it over some things in the room. Hang a potted plant. You can get creative with the paints and create a floor wall border of long green grass with wildflowers and birds. (Use pencil and stencil before paint for some animals and flowers.) A wallpaper border that coordinates with the grass, flowers, and birds may make it easier for you -- there may even be a wallpaper for children that can safely be written on and washed off and just as easily removed by an adult. Toddlers will write on walls. -- bordelondl

 BIRDHOUSE TO HOLD DRAPERY Buy inexpensive unfinished birdhouses at the craft store. Paint them and then drill holes through them horizontally and use them to hold your drapery treatment. --FishinAround

 TREE MURAL WITH REAL BIRDHOUSE I once saw a mural of a tree with birds painted on a wall -- but with real birdhouses hung from the tree. Stencils would help in adding the birds and such. I'd love to try to hang a real swing from a branch and sit a doll on it! -- Tish

 RUSTIC GARDEN For a great garden feel, look for "seed-packet" artwork in old wallpaper books, then cut out and attach to the bottom part of the wall to look like rows of a garden. Add an actual stake or paint a stake on the bottom of the seed packets to give it a 3D look. If you have the flair, paint a cute scarecrow or birdbath around the room. If you can find them, the miniature Adirondack chairs, or maybe even the actual chairs made from branches, would look super. --Lynn

 GARDEN FAIRYLAND I saw a table and chairs made out of white buckets, the large ones with the lids. They cut shapes (flower for the table and leaves for the chairs) from plywood, painted them and screwed them on the lids of the white buckets for a set. Then used the bottom of the buckets for storage for crayons, books, etc. Bright drawer pulls had the same theme; an old lampshade had hot-glued silk flowers all over it, a great garden look. A large white wire trellis went over the crib, but it could also go over a single bed as a head rail. This one was wrapped with tulle and ivy and silk flowers and white Christmas lights. There were also fairy accents on the dressers and bookcases. So cute. -- FishinAround