Painting a mural in your kids’ room just maybe one of the easiest DIY projects you can undertake. It is simple enough to do as a first DIY project, and you don’t need to be an artist at all! Besides, it is budget-friendly and suitable for renters – paint over your mural with a fresh coat of paint when you need to move. To paint your own mural, all you need is paint, some painters tape, and a paintbrush. And you know what? Painting murals for your children means that you are creating beautiful memories for them, and this perhaps is the best part. Years from now, they will look back at their childhood and remember the time you painted their walls, and the dreams they had inspired by those walls.

In this article, we will share a few easy mural ideas to inspire you to paint your very own mural. If you are still on the fence regarding your artistic skills then fear not, drawing basic shapes is all the artistic flair we need here! Remember exactly why you are doing this, you are creating memories for your children that they will fondly recall for years to come.

Mountains!

Mountains, as well as being extremely beautiful, are perhaps one of the easiest murals to paint, and it’s easy to see why. A mountain range would look beautiful whether painted in a nursey, a girls’ room, a boys’ room, or even a shared room. You can go with any colour you like; greys or beiges would make lovely neutral tones, whereas blues will add a lovely burst of colour.

To start painting your mountains, use good quality painters tape to tape off your forefront mountains into big triangles. This will ensure that your lines are straight and crisp. Once you are happy with forefront mountains, add some rear mountains in the background with some more tape – they should look like the tips of smaller triangles peaking through. Make sure your tape is firmly stuck to the wall, you don’t want any paint leaking out.

Now you are ready to start painting! If your mountains are going to be blue, paint your forefront mountains the darker shade of blue and your rear mountains a lighter blue. When your mountains are dry, you can even add further details like snowcapped peaks or brushstrokes to a mountain or two to add some texture.

Now sit back, admire your masterpiece, and think of all the conversations and dreams these mountains will inspire.

Flowers

Flowers are a lot easier to draw than one might think. Since most people can draw basic shapes, most people can actually draw a bunch of flowers. It is also noteworthy to mention that mural painting does not call for anatomically correct flowers. Rather, we are looking for an artistic interpretation of florals.

If you want to give flower painting a go, start off with a pencil and draw some flowers on your intended wall. You can even go one extra step and paint your background with a combination of light pastels. Then paint in your flowers with a paintbrush using the same colours as your pastel background. If any of your flowers turn out wonky, turn them into bigger flowers, leaves, or just paint over them. Remember, it is just paint.

Geometric Shapes

Painting geometric shapes such triangles does not require any drawing at all. It is literally as simple as tape and paint. To create your own statement wall, pick three to four colours (if you are brave enough, ask your child to choose the colours) depending on the interiors of the room. Once you have chosen your colours, tape across the wall in a crisscross manner to create triangles of different sizes. Then paint the triangles with the colours you have chosen. Remove the tape once you are done to reveal your art. 

We hope this article has inspired you to paint a mural wall for the littles in your life. Now if hand painting just isn’t for you, then perhaps you would like the idea of stencils – Etsy has a tonne of options. Simply paint a background colour then use some stencils to create your mural.

Now that you know how easy it actually is to paint your own murals, what patterns would you choose for a kid’s room? Would you try the hand painting style, or do you like to play it safe with tape? Let us know below.