How to Design a Bunny Rabbit Theme Nursery
Decorate with Soft Pastels and Bunnies for an Baby Girl’s Bedroom
Jan 28, 2009
Fluffy rabbits make for one of the cutest little girl nursery motifs. Plus, with beloved bunny characters like Peter Rabbit and the Velveteen Rabbit, it’s easy to find adorable décor.
Start with the Walls for the Rabbit Theme Nursery
Wallpaper options abound depicting bunnies and their cute forest friends, but decorators might also opt for the more affordable coat of paint.
Parents may want to choose bedding and accent pieces to help select their foundation color for the wall. Popular crib sets often depict bunny rabbits against a background of soft yellow, pink, green or blue.
Once the walls are covered, parents can add a bunny theme wallpaper border or try their hand at stencils. Some may want to attempt a mural of a meadow or garden with flowers, butterflies, and a fluffy bunny rabbit or two. Many parents opt for a mural straight out of a Beatrix Potter book. Peel and stick wall decals or wallpaper murals are an equally attractive option.
If parents want to take it easy, this theme can be put together with little to no effort. The wide variety of bunny rabbit growth charts and wall hangings ensure parents will have no problem brightening up the nursery walls.
Bed Sets Crib Sets, Window Treatments, and Area Rugs, for the Bunny Rabbit Nursery
The popularity of the bunny 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 Kids Line’s Bunny Meadow crib set, Little Miss Liberty’s Storybook Heirloom Bunny Business bedding, Kids Line’s B is for Bunny set, Lulla Smith’s Snuggle Bunny crib bedding, Springmade Baby’s Bunny Baby Crib Bedding Accessories, Lamb and Ivy’s Lulla Bunny Bye Bunnies by the Bay set, Martha Stewart’s Fields of Bunnies, and Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit crib set.
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 bunny print or coordinating pastel fabrics.
Decorating a Bunny Theme Nursery
Stuffed animal bunny rabbits will go a long way to help with their decor. Rocking chairs, beds, dressers, and bookshelves are all great places to tie in the theme with stuffed bunnies.
Decorators can emphasize the soft pastel bunny rabbit theme by framing pages from the well-loved storybook The Tale of Peter Rabbit and hanging them in sequence around the nursery. Used bookstores are bound to have several affordable copies of this time-honored literary treasure.
Parents who want to go all out with the bunny theme for their baby’s nursery can hunt down a used desk, table, chairs, dresser, or chest of drawers and give them a bunny rabbit make-over. Stencils make this a decorating project any parent can tackle.
A toy chest stenciled with carrots, peppers, radishes, lettuce, and a happy bunny 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 rabbit figurines, silk flowers, a stuffed animal bunny collection, and rabbit themed storybooks. Some great titles include Seven Little Rabbits by John Becker, The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, Rabbit and the Moon by Douglas Wood, Rabbit’s Woolly Sweater by Mark Burchall, and some traditional Cherokee legends by Deborah Duvall such as How Rabbit Lost His Tail, Rabbit and the Bears, Rabbit and the Well, Rabbit and the Wolves, Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting, Rabbit Goes to Kansas, and Rabbit Plants the Forest. Decorating with books is an inexpensive way parents can brighten up the bedroom and instill a love of reading early.
Parents can personalize the room by searching out a Halloween bunny costume at a thrift store or on eBay. Pictures from an in-home photo shoot of a baby dressed up as an adorable little bunny rabbit will look great in the nursery and the scrap book as well.
Parents and older kids can also have fun scoping out a bunch of bunny illustrations from the used book store and clip favorite photos with their child. The pictures can be used 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 bunny theme room feel special and fill it with happy memories.
Decorators can get a jump on designing their child’s bunny bedroom with these creative tips. For more ideas, parents can check out articles on nursery themes including garden flowers and ladybugs, barnyard animals, or frogs.
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