I need help please...some ideas...creative moms only please?

Question

I want to decorate my son's room (ages 6 and 2) with an outer space theme. I cant seem to find outer space wall stickers...ya know the BIG ones. I have seen them before.... but I cant remember where... anyone know where I can go to get them...I want to avoid buying online because I want to see them before I purchase.

Answer 1

Paint the ceiling a dark blue and then stencil in stars, moons, planets, etc.  Paint the walls a lighter blue and stencil those as well.

Answer 2

try Ebay!  

Answer 3

Try stores where they sell stuff for classrooms such as Scholar's Choice or The Discovery Store.  If not you could always do a craft project with some wooden cut outs which are inexpensive at Micheal's.

Edit:  Wal-Mart sells glow in the dark stars which you can put up on the ceiling in the shape of consolations (like Orion and the Big Dipper).  They look really neat and kids LOVE them.

Answer 4

Well, I don't know about stickers (so this won't really answer your question) - but my children have an outer space room.

We painted it. We bought 6 different colors - red, blue, green, yellow and black and white. The top 2/3 of each wall was painted one of the bright colors, the bottom was painted white, and we painted a 1 1/2 foot boarder around the entire room in black. Then we used each of the colors we had and painted stars, planets, suns, galaxies, etc. all over the boarder. Even my mother, who thought I was crazy when I started, had to admit in the end that it looked great. We also painted the closets black and did a huge Nebula in them (unfortunatly, you can barely see this because of the closet organizers and all the stuff in them).

I thought it would be a lot of work, but it wasn't bad at all, it took only a few hours to paint the boarder (excluding the time it took to dry the paint) and it looked fantastic - so much better than the standard stickers you can buy.

Good luck with your room!

Answer 5

toys r us, home depot, you can buy the adhesive stars, and get the paint (navy blue) to paint their walls...I know that you don't want to shop online but oriental trading sells those, and I have tried them...they are cheap  

Answer 6

I think places like The Discovery Channel Store (if you still have one near you...most have gone out of business, I believe) or other science stores.

You could try an art & crafts store like AC Moore or Michaels.

Or an educational toy store- are there still Zany Brainy's around?  Don't know if they have gone out of business since I was a kid.

Answer 7

hiya.how big do you want them?you could alays print the out from the internet or why dont you do this

buy pictures/posters of what you want and cut around the background so it only the outer shape of the moon/spacecraft etc and the get a pencil and trace around them and then paint the moon/spacecraft etc?

or just do the same but but the posters/pictures up on the wall itll just kinda be the same.

Answer 8

Target or Ebay normally have pics of things that they are selling so you can see them and even ask the seller questions like how big they are and if they are removable.

Answer 9

a "creative" mom would paint them on herself...it's not hard to paint planets (circles) and stars (circles) or the moon (crescent).  I'm sure you could even find some patterns online to cut out and trace, and then get some paint and go for it.  that'd be so much more fun anyway.

If by chance you rent and cannot paint, which was not clearly stated in your question, i'd check out Michael's.