How to Decorate a Spongebob Themed Room

Spongebob Squarepants is one of the most popular shows for pre-teen kids. Even many adults like to tune in and watch Spongebob's antics. With this popularity, many kids may ask for their room to be decorated in a Spongebob theme. If you are looking to redecorate a child's room with a Spongebob theme, here are some tips that will help you create the perfect look.

First, you will need undersea color paints. Try for some Caribbean style blues. These are relaxing tones, and can help create a restful room, despite the zaniness of Spongebob as a character. This Caribbean blue should be your background color. You can paint various things such as Spongebob, a large pineapple house, or even bubbles, as I've written about previously. These will give the room a lot of character. One idea is to paint the flowers that often float in Spongebob's sky. You can do these with small paint samples that most home improvement stores have for sale, and draw them freehand onto the ceiling. An easy way to draw them onto the wall is to use a small projector, available at many craft stores for less than $20. Then you can print out an underwater scene from the Internet and copy it onto the wall to make a mural. Use small bottles of craft paints to paint it on the wall. Make sure when you paint the characters or scenes, that you have taken the room layout into account. There is no reason to paint a mural in a spot that will always be covered by a dresser or a bed. Also, save yourself some time and effort and install a chair railing about halfway up the wall. Only put the mural above it, and make it seem as though the characters are walking along the chair railing. This will keep you from having to paint a large area freehand with many different colors. Below the chair railing, a neat idea is to paint several coats of magnetic paint and then a coat of chalkboard paint over the top. This lets them have a large magnetic area in their room, where they can hang drawings, posters, or magnetic toys, and they will also be able to use chalk on this part of the wall. The chair railing helps keep the chalk on the part of the wall where it belongs.