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Five Cheap but Exciting Themes for Children’s Rooms Based on Natural Science
by Joey Lewitin

When decorating a child’s room, using a theme has a number of advantages that can help to make the process easier, as well as an overall more meaningful experience. The first benefit to this method is that it gives your imagination a guideline along which to work. This allows you to be as creative as you want; because the theme itself will ensure that your ideas hold together.

If your problem is a lack of ideas, using this method will naturally give you several obvious decorative options. In this way, a theme can both restrain your creativity, as well as give you a springboard for new ideas. You should always seek the advice of your child before redecorating their personal space. Involving their feedback ensures both that they will like the room, and feel a part of it. More importantly however, the decoration of a child’s room is a wonderful excuse to spend time getting to know them. When determining what they would like in a room, you have to ask questions, and talk to them, find out what they like and don’t like. The more you involve them in the process, the more time you will spend getting to know them, and creating quality memories for both of you.

The nature of the theme can also have another benefit, providing that you pick the right one, and present it to the child in the right way. The ideal room would encourage a child to think, imagine, and research. It would have to contain elements which are both entertaining and educational, and which would inspire their desire to learn more. One way to do this is to decorate a child’s room based upon a scientific or research based subject.

This will literally surround them in science. However, in order to implement such a scheme, you will have to present the idea in an exciting way. During the process, you have to emphasize the fun, and only subtly feed them education. If you try and force a lesson, they will rebel against it, and won’t learn anything. Worse, they will hate their room. Be sure to emphasize the fun, and let their own curiosity direct them to learn more.

Below are five simple themes for children’s rooms, which are based on science and the world around us. In each, there are suggestions for presenting the theme in an interesting and exciting way. As you look through the various ideas, use your own imagination to expand on them. When you speak with your child, let them come up with some of their own ideas as well. Your imagination is the supplemental that will make the room you decorate unique.

 
The Author
 
Joey Lewitin is an artist and interior designer who has always advised the use of creativity in decorating ones home. For many years he has been one of the premier Pebble Artists working with PebbleArt Inc to create unique home décor accessories using natural stone. These designs can be seen at http://PebbleZ.com
 
Posted: November 09, 2008