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[W15]Wall Art For Children
by Alyssa Davis, Aly

People always complain that they want a unique hanging wall art. What they do not know is that they can find one in their homes. They might not notice it at first but with a little imagination, they can pull it off. Using some of your home materials, you can create a truly interesting and unique wall art for your home. It can be anything. You can try out dried ingredients like tomatoes, rice and the likes. They can just mount it in a cardboard or whatever hard material you have. Afterward, you can have it framed and then hang it on the wall.

You can also collate some of the family pictures you have and make a somewhat mosaic out of it. You can make it having a scrapbook effect and then hang it on the wall afterwards. This is something very different because not everyone makes a picture having a scrapbook effect. Surely, you will have fun looking at is as you enjoyed making the image itself. Be creative and just let your creative juices flow.

Another hanging wall art you might want to consider making your very own artwork. For example, you can use some beads and ribbons and then place it in a picture that you want to personalize. You can use glue so that the materials would not go anywhere when you paste them in place. There is no right or wrong move here since you are the artisan of this project. Just try to ensure that the one you are making is clean and is not looking like a mess. People will admire you for your effort once they see this.

Vintage or antique pieces are also wonderful items that you can hang on your wall. Sometimes, even though they do not seem to have value, others are able to think of where to use them. They do not want to throw these things away because they are old and some have fun jazzing up such pieces. Creative people do not discard items because they know it will be handy when the time comes. They just want to keep everything until such time they feel that the piece is ready for use.

Thinking and making unique hanging wall art is something not everyone is good. If you know you have that gift of making interesting pieces of art, you can sell them to others. They will be happy once the things are already in their hands. People just get so ecstatic when their pieces arrive and cannot wait to use them or hang them on the walls. Finally seeing what they want most in their abode is a feeling no words can explain. They are so happy that they cannot take their eyes of this prized possession because they know that they have waited so long for it and it finally came home to them. Wall art items are not necessarily expensive ones. You just know where to look for them or how to make them to make it truly unique.


Paint was a must. In some of our other rooms, we used a paint color made by Pittsburgh Paint called "Happy Trails, which is a really rich tan color.

Next, I knew those old curtains had to be changed out, so I found an inexpensive curtain rod and bought two different scarves and draped those over the rod. Done.

I needed to bring in some color, so I made a couple of arrangements out of silk and dried flowers. A nice pop against the warm tan of the walls.

Now, what to do about the wall art? I wanted to have family photos in the room but I didn't want a bunch of mismatched frames sitting around. I was going for a cleaner look.

Our last child just left for college so I wanted to showcase the transition my family has undergone over the past 22 years. An idea was born to make a photo collage for the wall with black and white photos and matching frames.

How I made it

Pick the photos. I chose one of my family when the two kids were very young and one of my family now. Then I found my favorite picture of just the kids when they were little and another one of them now.

Fix the photos. After selecting the four photos, some had to be scanned into my computer while the more recent ones were taken with my digital camera and were already in my computer. Adobe Photoshop makes it easy to fix photos. They were all different sizes and colors so the first thing I had to do was make them all uniform.

I made them all 5 x 7's by using the function "Image-Size" and then the function "Image-Mode-Grayscale" to discard color. I ended up with four, 5 x 7, black and white photos. This is an important step, in my opinion, because you want them all to match.

Buy the frames. In order to accomplish the uniform look, I also selected four identical frames.

Hang them. Once the four black and white photos were in the frames, I had to decide how I wanted to hang them. The orientation of the photos (portrait or landscape) will help you decide the configuration (across in a straight line, down in a straight line, in a perfect square...).

Two of my photos were landscape and 2 were portrait so I decided to put them in a square with an irregular edge to create visual interest. We hung up the photo collage yesterday and my husband helped to ensure that the frames were all perfectly spaced.

The wall art that we created turned out just as I pictured it. Not only do we have inexpensive wall art, but we have something to look at that is so very meaningful and will be cherished for years to come.
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