Do You Decorate Your Kids' Rooms For The Holidays?

The younger children always have so much fun on the holidays. They usually have special events at school and church depending on which holiday it is. And as the kids get older, they like to do their own room decor.

If you start by picking up a couple items each year, it won't take you long to have all the seasons covered. Plus if you make your own it's even more fun, although not necessarily less expensive. Another good tip is to pick up things at the end of the season sales.

If you don't want to put holiday decor in their bedroom, the bathroom is an easy place to add seasonal items. A shower curtain, special toothbrush holder, a rug and maybe a wall decor piece. If you have room, something to put on the top of the toilet tank lid. If you don't have the money for that, just pick up some window clings, and add around the borders or corners of their bathroom mirror, or on the outside of the glass shower door if they have one.

Of course the shower curtain makes the most impact, and probably costs the most. But that is one item that is simple to make and you can usually pick up some inexpensive holiday fabric to make it from. If you're using a plastic shower curtain liner, just some cotton quilting fabric would work. Make the holidays a little more special for the little ones. They're pretty easy to please.

The Box The Gift Came In Is Often The Most Fun.

My grand daughter just had her birthday party. She received a range of gifts. Games, a new bedding set, a cute little shoulder bag, a make up kit that included nail polish, perfume, stick on tattoos, lip gloss, body glitter and nail polish remover plus some hair do-dads, some new PJ's, money, various toys and much, much more.

What got the loudest scream? A bean bag chair! What got played with the most during the party? The box the chair came in. What was the first thing to get lost? The money she got. Go figure. Kid's never change!

The bedding set was a cute patchwork type quilt with rather large squares (patches) in colors of mainly pink, lavender and mint green. It came with a matching pillow sham and bed skirt. The nice thing about it is that it was a basic design with a few large applique flowers and flower pots and other assorted designs. Why is that nice? Because you can put Hannah Montana decor or even Princess Decor or most any other girl's decor on the walls and shelves and it'll "go" with it. Including the framed enlarged photo of her favorite bird of prey. (One of the things she'd like to do when she grows up is be a veterinarian.)

Oh, and by the way, the bean bag chair that was such a hit, was pink with dots on it and a big flower. Perfect to go with the bedding.