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DIY Nursery Decoration

February 23, 2016 By Morgan Last Updated: December 5, 2020

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This DIY nursery decoration is simple, easy and adorable! Decorate your baby’s room with a collection of them or make one or two to add some fun to a small space.

When I was pregnant with Ryan, I ended up taking an early maternity leave and quickly got bored watching daytime TV, looking at registries, and lurking on The Bump boards. So I started making things because that’s what I do when I have nothing to do. I made a cute set of little prints for what I envisioned to be Ryan’s nursery and planned to frame and hang them lovingly above his crib in his nursery because that’s what you do when you’re an expecting mom.

This DIY nursery decoration is simple, easy and adorable! Decorate your baby's room with a collection of them or make one or two to add some fun to a small space.

Fast forward today: I never made that beautiful nursery of my dreams before Ryan was born because we started the process of buying a house right before he was born. He lived in our room in a Pack n’ Play while we lived at my MIL’s until we moved into our house 5 weeks after he was born. I never got around to decorating his room, much less framing and hanging a single nursery decoration I made, and at some point, I gave up and just taped them to the wall, where they sat bright and happy for months.

Ryan ripped it

That is until Ryan climbed on top of a box that was temporarily in his room and promptly tore one of them. Such is life with toddlers.

Since you all seemed to love my Teach Yourself How to Hand Letter post, (it’s my most popular post on the blog!) I  thought this presented me with the perfect opportunity to re-do this print and document it for you all! This DIY nursery decoration is so easy and looks so cute. Plus, there are infinite possibilities for what you can do with this method! So let’s get to it.

This DIY nursery decoration is simple, easy and adorable! Decorate your baby's room with a collection of them or make one or two to add some fun to a small space.

DIY Nursery Decoration

First, decide the animal you’d like on your print. I wanted my words and animals to kind of match, so for this example, I’m showing you a giraffe. Obviously, you don’t need to do an animal – like I said, the possibilities are endless! to get your silhouette, just Google “Giraffe Silhouette” and go to images. a bunch will show up, so choose which works for you and your project. Save and print the silhouette in the size you want.*

This DIY nursery decoration is simple, easy and adorable! Decorate your baby's room with a collection of them or make one or two to add some fun to a small space.

Choose what you’d like the silhouette to look like. I chose this fun yellow scrapbooking paper. Flip it over and glue the silhouette to the back of the scrapbook paper. Remember that the end result will be reversed, so if you need/want a certain orientation, you can either print it in mirror image or cut the shape out and trace it upside down.

Choose your wording. I chose “Stand Tall” for the giraffe print. Do some searching, think it out, and come to a decision. Then decide on the type of font and layout you want. I like to peruse Pinterest and Etsy for inspiration on things like this. As for fonts, I use dafont.com to find funky fonts to use. I could spend days on that site. I’m aslo working on a post for creating your own font/alphabet to use for inspiration, which was helpful for me in this case. Keep an eye open for that! Once you’ve decided, sketch out your design on scrap paper.

This DIY nursery decoration is simple, easy and adorable! Decorate your baby's room with a collection of them or make one or two to add some fun to a small space.

Take your paper and place your new silhouette onto it, tracing the edge loosely so you know where your words shouldn’t go. I don’t recommend glueing it yet since if you mess up (like I did, no shame.) you’ll have to start 100% over. Now start to sketch out your words with a pencil lightly until you have it looking just right. I highly recommend using my hand lettering tutorial to help you out here!

This DIY nursery decoration is simple, easy and adorable! Decorate your baby's room with a collection of them or make one or two to add some fun to a small space.

Go over it with pen or marker. I used black because I like the look of black lettering, but you can also use coloured pencils or markers here if you wish. Erase all of your pencil marks and glue your animal to your paper, and then make adjustments as necessary. Let dry and you’re done! Like I said, super easy, super simple and super cute!

This DIY nursery decoration is simple, easy and adorable! Decorate your baby's room with a collection of them or make one or two to add some fun to a small space.

*Please note: for this, I used 8.5 x 11 cardstock. But keep in mind that frames for this size are a lot less common. You can use any size for this, though.

This DIY nursery decoration is simple, easy and adorable! Decorate your baby's room with a collection of them or make one or two to add some fun to a small space.

So have you tried hand lettering yet? Are you convinced to give it a try? Have you ever made a decoration for your home? Let me know in the comments!

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  1. Gretchen | Gretchruns says

    February 23, 2016 at 8:30 am

    These are so cute! I love this idea. I feel like you could use this technique on other areas too..I could see doing this with silhouettes of food and putting a quote about cooking or eating next to it for a kitchen. I might just steal this 🙂

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  2. Susie @ SuzLyfe says

    February 23, 2016 at 10:05 am

    Totally hiring you to do my nursery decoration when it is time.

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  3. alexandra @ my urban family says

    February 23, 2016 at 10:40 am

    Super cute! I love the three sayings 🙂

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  4. Celeste says

    February 23, 2016 at 11:52 am

    Oh my gosh, I LOVE this! Your lettering is beautiful, and I love the animals! I hope to one day do a nursery with safari animals, so this would be perfect. I will definitely be saving this and checking out your hand lettering tutorial!

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  5. Kris | iheartwellness.com says

    February 23, 2016 at 2:37 pm

    Ahhh I love these! Now, I’m not a mom or having a baby right at this moment, but I know where to come when I am and I want to make cute decor!!

    They are amazing!

    xxoo

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  6. Kristy @ Southern In Law says

    February 23, 2016 at 3:18 pm

    Your lettering skills just keep getting better and better! These are gorgeous!

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  7. Carlee says

    February 23, 2016 at 6:16 pm

    How cute are those?! Everything here is trains and tractors right now, but I love the animal motif!

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  8. KC says

    February 23, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    You did an amazing job! I will have to try to do some myself for our baby boy’s nursery. Now I’m feeling inspired (again) 😉

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  9. Julia@yogawinehappiness.com says

    February 23, 2016 at 11:56 pm

    I love those! So cute and creative!!

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  10. Pamela Smith says

    February 24, 2016 at 12:03 am

    These are so cute! I love the giraffe! Thanks for sharing!

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  11. sandra says

    February 24, 2016 at 8:39 am

    How neat! I love them. I no longer need a nursery but it would be easy to make decor for an older child’s bedroom using the same technique. Thanks for sharing!

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  12. Kate @ DCL says

    February 24, 2016 at 9:46 am

    These turned out sooooo cute!! Love your creativity 🙂

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  13. Crystal says

    February 24, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    These are so cute! They would be great in anyone’s nursery. Thanks for sharing!

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  14. Anita says

    February 25, 2016 at 1:03 am

    This is an amazing idea! Thanks for sharing. Hi, I’m Anita visiting from Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop.

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  15. Michelle says

    February 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    Adorable! You certainly have a creative gift.

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  16. Brie @ A Slice of Brie says

    February 26, 2016 at 12:15 am

    Oh, I love these!! So creative and so cute. I might just have to try my hand at something similar. Also totally going to go check out your hand lettering post – I would LOVE to be able to hand letter, even somewhat.

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  17. Kelli says

    March 1, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    Cute! And yes, you are right, your nursery prints appears simple. I wish I could draw and write like you do! Your little phrases beside the animals are so cute, but I know I just can’t do them yet. I will keep practicing. 🙂

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  18. Theresa @DearCreatives says

    March 2, 2016 at 11:27 am

    Oh my so cute! Thanks for joining the Inspiration Spotlight party. Pinned & shared. Hope to see you again soon.

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  19. Shirley Wood says

    March 9, 2016 at 7:50 am

    Thank you for sharing with us at Merry Monday . Those are really cute. I especially like the chevron giraffe. Tweeted.

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  20. To Arizona and Beyond says

    March 10, 2016 at 1:21 pm

    Such a fun idea, I like the papers you chose for the animals and that you can completely customize it for your own colour scheme!

    Reply

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