How Do You Create Wall Hangings With Kids?
When your kids want to spruce up their room decor, let them help create customized embellishments for walls, doors and windows. Design colorful wall hangings that showcase your child’s name, hobbies or favorites. With basic craft supplies such as felt, ribbon and stencils, you can work together to create sew or no-sew decorations as a creative rainy-day craft. Hang the signs from hooks affixed with temporary adhesive to walls or doors so you can change the designs to suit your child’s current interests or decorating trends. Use a tape measure or yardstick to measure the height and width of the wall space to determine how large you want the rectangular, handmade wall hanging to be. Add 4 inches to the height of the vertical wall hanging and 2 inches to the width, and then use a ruler and tailor’s chalk to mark the measurements onto a piece of felt, denim or cotton fabric. Cut out the shape with pinking shears or a pair of sharp scissors. Fold 1 inch of fabric along the left side of the
