Kids Rooms Photo Contest – Win $100

Colorful Childhood LLC invites you to enter our Colorful Kids Rooms Photo Contest by sending us photos of your children’s rooms.  The grand prize winner will receive a check for $100 and be featured in this popular Colorful Kids Rooms blog.

Here is how to enter:
1) Send a good quality photo of your child’s room to us at info@colorfulchildhood.com
2) Include your name, contact information, and anything you want to share about your child’s special room

Here is how to vote:
1) All the photos will be uploaded to our Kids Rooms Contest album on our Colorful Childhood Facebook page
2) Once you have submitted your picture, get your friends and family to comment on your picture with the word “VOTE“
3) We will announce the winner on March 1st, 2012 on our Facebook page and immediately mail $100 check to the winner!

Best Arts and Crafts Gifts for Toddlers – Art Easel, Storage

Active toddlers who enjoy drawing, painting or experimenting with chalk, but can’t sit still for long enough, will enjoy this great toddler Art Easel from Pkolino.

Art Easel Puppet Theater for Toddlers

This playful multi-purpose art easel can be used in many different ways. Use it as a traditional easel, a chalkboard, a white board, or a puppet theater. The art board has a chalkboard side and a whiteboard side. If paper is your preferred medium the easel holds rolls up to 18″ and sheet of all sizes. Included are two fabulous coloring -book scenes to use as backdrops when used as a puppet theater. The Multi-Use Easel folds completely flat for quick and easy storage. Simply unfold again for an easy set up.

Elephant Easel - Wall Mounted Art Easel for Jungle-Theme Rooms

For those kids who love to scribble on the walls, the best choice is an Elephant Wall Easel from the new Safari Collection.  Playful, wall mounted art easel features fun colorful, animal silhouettes that make for a playful yet sophisticated playroom or bedroom decorated in a Jungle theme. Compared to the freestanding Art Easel, wall mounted Easel takes a lot less space and will work well even a small apartment.

Creative Storage Ideas for Toddler Playrooms, Bedrooms or Classrooms

There is room in the back of the free-staning Art Easel to add a Colorful Storage Bin with a Lid, which will hold all the arts and crafts supplies and minimize the mess. These sturdy storage bins integrate into many products for added organization. They can be easily removed and replaced with another play kit for a simple way to change the activity and to organize your child’s toys. Colorful storage bins are available in red, green, purple, blue, yellow and orange to match any favorite color theme.

Red Storage Kit for Toddler Playroom

Fun and practical storage bins for kids are small enough to fit on most shelves and large enough to hold art supplies, coloring books, blocks or small toys.  For a fabulous color statement in a playroom, bedroom or office, stack various colored bins on top of one another.

Pkolino products meet or exceed US, EU, and Canadian safety standards. Independently Tested for durability, toxicity, mechanical safety, regulatory standards, use and abuse and age grading.

Decorating Kids Rooms for the Holidays – Winter Wall Decals

Decorate Your Own Peel-and-Stick Christmas Tree Wall Decals

This year you can decorate your kids rooms without a mess of Christmas tree needles or a safety hazard that comes with breakable ornaments. Want to bring in a little Christmas cheer without having to vacuum up needles? Don’t have space for a Christmas tree? Decorative peel and stick Christmas tree wall decals are the solution. Assemble the tree on your wall, then use the included ornaments to create your very own custom look. Get the kids to help!

Glitter Snowflakes Wall Decals - Snow Decorations for Kids Rooms or Classrooms

Don’t forget the Glitter Snowflakes wall decals to set the winter holiday mood.  These sparkly, glitter-covered snowflake wall decals let the family celebrate winter indoors.  Beautiful snowflakes wall decals also work great for classrooms and offices. Decorating is easy: just peel and stick! 

Pair these decorative snowflakes wall stickers with any other holiday designs, or just sprinkle them throughout your home to celebrate the season everywhere.

Let It Snow Winter Wall Decals for Kids Rooms

Funny snowmen in action, crisp snowflakes, and colorful holiday ornaments make for very warm, cheerful, and fun room decor!

Christmas Wall Decals can be applied safely on painted walls, accessories, refrigerators, windows, tiles, mirrors… even outside! Apply to any flat surface, and just peel away when you want to move it somewhere else. Fully reusable and repositionable!  And because peel-and-stick wall decals can be used over and over again, these Holiday Wall Sstickers are sure to adorn your walls for many holidays to come.

Christmas Wall Decals can be re-applied onto the original liners for use the following year!

Robots and Rocketships in Space Wall Stickers – Decorating Kids Rooms

Robots and Rocketships in Space - Wall Decals, Stickers and Murals for Kids Rooms

Amazing new designs of wall decals include Rocketship in Space Wall Stickers and Build-Your-Own-Robot Wall Stickers for kids rooms.  Robots and rocketships can be used together or independently to create a scene in a child’s room that is out of this world.

Build-Your-Own-Robot Wall Stickers for kids rooms feature 47 Fabric Stickers varying in height from about 18” – 30”. Wall stickers include all the parts a kid needs to build his own robot: robot heads, scientific goggles, robot bodies, robot appendages and robot mechanic limbs – all in fun bright colors. Use your imagination and know the possibilities are endless to create you own robot personality… To rearrange your scene and to tell a different story, carefully peel off each element and reposition it where you like, smooth it out with your hand, and continue to experience, enjoy, dream and play!

Fun and Functional Robot-Themed Rooms

Robot Themed Rooms for Boys and Girls

Kids Reversible Blankets

Kid-friendly Dark Blue Curtains

Cool and functional robot rooms come into life with Kids Cotton Robot Bedding featuring an army of blue, green, orange and silver marching robots.  Robot bedding coordinates well with Kids Reversible Cotton Moving Blankets that look like funky blankets used by moving companies, except with nice colors and the quality.  The bedding and the blankets are 100% cotton and washable.

Multi-color Striped Rugs

Orange Table Lamp for Kids

Any boys’ room and especially a robot-themed room looks good with  Kids Dark Blue Curtain Panels that are kid-friendly all cotton, including cotton-lining, and machine washable as well.  A good looking, good quality and contemporary Kids Multi Color Bold Wide Stripe Rug, made from a blend of Indian and New Zealand wool, is attractive and practical.  The unassuming style of the Orange Table Lamp helps ensure it will be around the house for many years to come.  Available in many color options, this lamp easily coordinates with different decors, making it a perfect fit for any room.

For a fun robot-inspired wall decor try these fun, hip, and colorful Build Your Own Robot Wall Decals.  Legs, arms, chest plates, eyes, faces, and antennas can be combined in multiple configurations to create at least four large personalized robots. And because  wall stickers can be repositioned at will, you can experiment over and over again.

Robot Wall Stickers

Decorating with Polka Dots, Numbers and Letters

Polka-Dots, Numbers and Letters Stickers for Nursery or Playroom

Colorful wall decals are a fun, decorative and educational solution for any kids room – nursery, bedroom, playroom or a classroom.  With prices as low as $19.99 per set, wall decals are also very affordable.  Since they are easily removed and repositioned, there is no need to worry about residue or damage to your walls.  Wall stickers create the same effect as a painted wall mural in seconds, at a fraction of the cost.

Colorful Peel-and-Stick Letters

Experts say that bright, bold colors can positively stimulate a child’s senses and positively contribute to his or her development.  Since wall decals can be removed and repositioned at any time, you can move around and rearrange these Colorful Polka Dots Wall Stickers, Colorful Letters Wall Decals, and Numbers Wall Decals as often as you please.

Extremely versatile, fun, and bright set of Colorful Peel-and-Stick Letters allows you to customize and personalize your child’s surroundings. Write a child’s name on a wall, furniture, accessories, mirrors, or windows. Great for nurseries, classrooms, and kids bedrooms!

Decorating Teen Rooms – Stylish and Colorful

Colorful Teenage Bedroom - Pink and Green

This adorable bedroom is colorful and fun, but also stylish and sophisticated.  It is obvious that this room is not a playroom for a little girl, instead it is a  suitable retreat for a young lady, a teen’s perfect sanctuary.

Pink Peony Pillow Sham for Teen Bedroom

Pine Cone Hill bedding and home accessories  are vibrant, imaginative creations synonymous with quality and easy sophistication. Using a wide range of fabrics, textures, prints, stripes and solids, collections coordinate together and can be mixed or matched in endless combinations – a blend of affordability, practicality and terrific design.

The beautiful canopy in this room is created by Pink Peony Window Panel.  Cabana Stripe Narrow Bedskirt (18″ drop) coordinates with the Cabana Stripe Wide Bolster Pillow and the Polka Dot sheet set in multi all by Pine Cone Hill.  To complete the look Uma Resist Lime Quilt is folded at the end of the bed. This cute and comfortable quilt reverses to a smaller lime flower on a creamy white background.  It is made from 100% cotton and is machine washable!

Pink Flower Self-Adhesive Wall Decals

For easy and inexpensive wall decor there is a large selection of peel-and-stick wall decals for teens that suit any taste and personality.  Usually the room is decorated around one or two vivid colors.  Cozy spaces,  comfy furniture, and soft fabrics with imaginative patterns create a comfortable feel and give a sense of privacy.   A unique and stylish lamp ads a finishing touch.