Guest Author - Lisa Russell
Decorating Ideas for Farm Animals
# Create your own artwork by visiting a local farm and take pictures of your child with the various animals, barns, and farm equipment. Matte and frame the picturesfor personalized farm animal decor. For an unborn child, consider having each grandparent or cousin take farm photos, so the baby can be surrounded by the faces of his loved ones, even in his sleep.
# Use a calendar featuring farm animals to create inexpensive farm-themed wall art. If you frame each individual picture, you get 12 pieces of artwork that are all the same size, so they look like a coordinated collection, for only the cost of the calendar and frames. Frames can come from the dollar store or can be made with plexiglass and molding.
# You can also decorate with stuffed farm animals. Arrange them on a shelf, bookcase, or animal net or if you have a barn toy box in the room, you can arrange the animals around the “barn.”
# Paint a farm mural on one or more of the walls. A giant barn, tractors and other farm equipment, fields of crops, and farm animals such as roosters, cows, horses, goats, pigs, and sheep would make an adorable mural.
# Stencil farm animals, barns, and tractors on the dressers or walls, or you could use peel & stick farm animal decals.
Farm Animal Items
Farm animals work well for baby nurseries, and can be integrated with a baby animals theme, a barnyard theme or even a Noah's ark theme. An alternative and possibly complimentary theme would be wild animals. In the kitchen, farm animals like roosters, cows and pigs are popular.
