Kid's Train-Themed Bedroom Ideas

Sometimes, moms and dads are more excited to decorate a child's room than the child himself. Before they go too overboard, parents should remember it's the child's area, the child whose wishes should be considered. If your child wants a train room, there are ideas that can be simple to implement, while others are more intricate and complex. Whatever route you decide for your child's train room, with a little bit of thought and planning, it will make everyone happy, most importantly your child. Does this Spark an idea?

Easy Ideas

The simplest thing you can do to create a train themed room is to go to your local kid's store where themed bedding and room decor can be purchased, and buy stuff. You can also peruse Internet stores. Choose from Thomas, clown trains, and steam engines. Almost anything train related is out there. Buy the lamp, the wallpaper border, the rug, bedding, and curtains to match. Add a train table and voila! You've created a kid's train-themed bedroom with little effort. It will look nice and your kid will probably love it.

If you're not very artistic or don't have a lot of money to spend, purchase stencils and stencil trains around the room, on your child's headboard or even on the dresser. Use different colored paints to add interest. In addition, instead of purchasing theme bedding, use the stencils and fabric paint and paint the train on the pillow and on the comforter. Remember, your child won't want a train room forever, so by the time these wear off, he may have outgrown his interests in trains.

You can always redo it if it wears off before that time. You can also use the stencils to stencil on some fabric or foam and cut them out. Then glue the train shapes in different areas of the room. You can even glue his inexpensive trains on the walls around the room.

Other Ideas

One of the coolest things you can do is to put a train track with electric trains around your child's bedroom's walls. You can buy tracks that will attach to the wall and even suspend from the ceiling. You can create murals on your walls to make it look as if the tracks and trains are really outside. If you're not into the tracks idea, you can still do a mural on at least one wall, of a train traveling through the mountains, possibly on a train bridge. You can even purchase removable wall train stickers so your child can move the trains around the painting.

Turn your child's room into a train table. Paint train tracks on the floor, if you can. A canvas floor cloth will work as well. Make the tracks just the right size for your child's trains. Then, make your child's bunk bed resemble a sleeping car, with curtains. Turn his dresser into a painted building and add artificial trees. Don't forget to make a railroad crossing sign. You can paint it on the wall if you don't have the resources to make one. Paint the walls like mountains and turn the ceiling into a cloudy sky. Add glow-in-the-dark stars for nighttime effects.