How to Decorate a Butterfly Theme Nursery
Colorful Butterfly Nursery Decor for a Baby Girl's Bedroom
Feb 19, 2009
Brilliant butterfly nursery decor is a trendy choice for a baby girl’s bedroom motif. Their delicate wings and vibrant colors fill a baby’s bedroom with the happiness of springtime’s growth and new life.
Walls for the Butterfly Theme Nursery
Wallpaper options abound depicting pink, purple, yellow, and blue butterflies set against green leaves and colorful flowers, but decorators might also opt for the more affordable coat of paint. The theme works equally well in soft shades of pastel and bold jewel tones. With this in mind, parents may want to choose bedding and accent pieces to help select their foundation color.
Once the walls are covered, parents can add a butterfly theme wallpaper border or try their hand at stencils. Some may want to attempt a mural depicting a beautiful butterfly garden. Peel and stick wall decals or wallpaper murals are an equally attractive option.
These sweet lyrics to a traditional English children’s song would look great as the centerpiece to a wall mural:
Butterfly, butterfly,
Whence do you come?
I know not, I ask not,
Nor ever had a home.
Butterfly, butterfly,
Where do you go?
Where the sun shines,
And where the buds grow.
Bed Sets Crib Sets, Window Treatments, and Area Rugs, for the Butterfly Nursery
The colorful look of the butterfly nursery theme has resulted in quite a few options for crib sets and coordinating accessories. The prices of these sets vary widely. A few of the more popular packages on the market include Lamb and Ivy’s Bedtime Originals Butterfly Kisses crib set, Koala Baby’s Butterfly Collection, Trend Lab’s Baby Butterfly set, Freckles’ Butterfly Garden Crib Bedding Collection, and Poshtots’ custom pink butterfly baby bedding.
Coordinating curtains, wall hangings, area rugs, diaper storage, and lamps accompany most of these crib sets. Do-it-yourself decorators may prefer to make their own curtains and throw pillows from butterfly print or coordinating fabrics. Lacey or sheer nursery window treatments can lend the room a bright and airy feel perfectly suited to a butterfly garden.
Butterfly Nursery Decor
Decorators can emphasize the butterfly theme by framing pages from Eric Carle’s well-loved Very Hungry Caterpillar and hanging them in sequence around the nursery. Used bookstores are bound to have several affordable copies of this colorful board book.
To give the room some added depth, parents can place sticky hooks just below the ceiling at regular intervals along one wall. Draping several yards of gauze fabric along the ceiling line will bring memories of spring butterfly chases to mind. A few tissue paper butterflies described in the family craft below would accent the fabric nicely.
Greenery is key to a vibrant butterfly nursery. Silk vines, flowers, and potted silk plants will all add to the room’s lush garden feel.
Parents who want to go all out with butterfly nursery decor can hunt down a used desk, table, chairs, dresser, or chest of drawers and give them a butterfly make-over. Stencils make this a decorating project any parent can tackle.
A toy chest stenciled with flowers, butterflies, ladybugs, dragon flies, and green leaves would make a cute and colorful accent piece. Decorators could make a coordinating wall shelf in no time at all.
Higher shelves are a great place to decorate with butterfly themed storybooks. Some great titles include The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Charlie the Caterpillar by Dom Deluise, Where Butterflies Grow by Joanne Ryder, From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Heiligman, Clara Caterpillar by Pamela Duncan Edwards, I Wish I Were a Butterfly by James Howe, Wings in the Meadow by Jo Brewer, If at First You Do Not See by Ruth Brown, Caterpillar Caterpillar by Vivian French, The Moon of the Monarch by Jean Craighead George, Malinda Martha Meets Mariposa by Marcia Trimble, The Butterfly Hunt by Yoshi, and A Day in the Life of a Monarch Butterfly by Lizbeth Zappler. Decorating with books is an inexpensive way parents can brighten up the bedroom and instill an early love of reading.
Decorators can personalize a baby’s butterfly nursery with adorable handprint butterflies for each month of the new baby’s life. This easy project can be completed in a matter of minutes and will be a great addition to the scrap book once the nursery theme changes.
- Trace each of the baby’s handprints on two colors of construction paper.
- Cut out the two sets of handprints.
- Paste them onto cardstock or mat board, one color for the upper wings, and the other color for the lower wings.
- Draw a butterfly body with antenna, then cut and paste to complete the picture.
Parents can help toddlers and older kids personalize the butterfly room by making beautiful tissue paper butterflies to add depth to the bedroom’s walls, and brighten the windows.
- Stack two pieces of construction paper on top of each other and fold in half.
- While the paper is still folded, cut one side of wings then unfold to reveal a symmetrical butterfly.
- Refold the butterflies and cut shapes from the wings as if making a paper snowflake.
- When finished, paste colored tissue paper or tin foil pieces on the backside of one butterfly to show through the patterns cut into the wings.
- When all the holes are filled, paste the second construction paper butterfly over the tissue paper to finish off the back.
- Fold a piece of pipe cleaner in half and twist together over the middle of the wings.
- Curl the tops of the pipe cleaner to form antenna then tie fishing line for hanging.
Parents and kids will also enjoy scoping out a bunch of butterfly illustrations from magazines and picture books at the used book store. They can clip favorite photos with their child and use the pictures to decoupage accent pieces for the room such as pencil cans, plaques for the wall, a table and chairs, or nightstand. Touches like these make a butterfly theme room feel special and fill it with happy memories.
With creativity and great butterfly nursery decor, the job of decorating a butterfly theme nursery will fly by. For more ideas, decorators can check out articles on nursery themes including ABCs, garden or princess.
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