Let your children makeover their room with these gorgeous DIY wall art projects for kids! And don’t worry, they’re great for adults too!!

Have you been thinking about redoing your child’s room for a while but can’t seem to get started? Well, if so, now’s the time – because April is National Decorating Month!

National Decorating Month was started in 1968 by The National Decorating Products Association along with the House and Garden Magazine. It became a regular event after that, and now it provides us with the perfect opportunity to encourage our kids to decorate their rooms!

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Easy Ways for Kids to Decorate their Rooms

Add pompoms or lace to the borders of curtains or cushions
Use plushies as decor pieces
Place interesting photo frames around the room to feature special moments
Use personalized pieces that display their initials or names, like a custom name plate
Create their own art and then frame it on the wall

Today, we’re going to help you with that last aspect – here are 15 gorgeous DIY wall art projects for kids to make and decorate their rooms with!

15 DIY Wall Art Projects for Kids to Make

1. Melted Crayon Monogram Wall Art

Kids love personalizing their things, including their rooms! Let your kid create their own custom wall art that is also a recycling project involving old, broken pieces of crayons!

2. Spring-Themed DIY Bird Wall Art

It’s wonderful that National Decorating Month falls during spring, isn’t it? Because that’s what makes this bird-themed wall art project perfect for the season!

3. Dancing Giraffe Wall Art Idea

We love it when DIY wall art projects for kids also give gentle reminders – like the fact that even if you think you can’t do something, you can if you are truly passionate about it!

4. Sponge Pouncers Wall Art

Kids will enjoy experimenting with a different way to create art, moving beyond paintbrushes onto sponge pouncers! It’s amazing how many different kinds of landscapes they can create with pouncers of different sizes.

5. Potato Print Monsters Wall Art

Here’s an art project that involves creating monsters by printing with potatoes – a rather strange sentence, I know! However, the result is impressive and is perfect to decorate the walls of a child’s bathroom!

6. Painters Tape Kids Canvas Art

What we love about these DIY wall art projects for kids is that they prove that you don’t need to be a talented painter with years of practice to create beautiful art! All Crafty Things shows us how it can be done with tape and paint!

7. DIY Tissue Paper Photo Collage Wall Art

Alice & Lois shows us how colored tissue paper is an excellent medium to work with when creating wall art! This one is particularly charming because of the cute photos you can put on it!

8. Rainbow Metallic Spatter Paint Wall Art

Here is an art project that looks professionally done and very expensive but really isn’t! Instructables gives us all the instructions to create this work of art – on a budget!

9. DIY Matisse-Inspired Wall Art

Let these DIY wall art projects for kids be an opportunity to learn about the masters, like Henri Matisse, in this simple but elegant project from The Crafted Life.

10. Cactus Canvas Painting Wall Art

The wonderful thing about art is that you don’t even need a brush; you can use spatulas, sponges, or as shown in this case, a ruler! Check out the instructions at 5-Minute Crafts so you can create your own cactus art!

11. Finger Painting Geometric Wall Art

While most of these DIY wall art projects for kids are targeted towards older children, this one from Lemon Thistle is one that can involve your toddlers and preschoolers too!

12. Stained Glass Framed Wall Art

The stained glass effect is one that is forever charming, and Smart Schoolhouse shows us how we can turn it into a frame-worthy piece of art without too much effort!

13. Kandinsky-Inspired Painting in Floating Frame

Wassily Kandinsky was known for his love for circles, and you can recreate that love with this interesting project from The Art Bar Blog, where the painting appears to ‘float’ in the frame!

14. Painted Wood Grain Wall Art

Wood has a natural grain that gives it its beauty, and Chica Circle shows us how to turn this natural feature into art – by adding some colorful paint!

15. Trimmed Paper Acrylic Paint Wall Art

The Crafted Life has a project that may require some time, but is actually quite easy! It’s perfect for the whole family to make together on a weekend!

We hope you enjoyed these DIY wall art projects for kids! Although we say ‘kids’, these are great for adults too, especially those who’ve been hesitant to try DIY projects thinking they’re not good enough. These ideas are easy enough to not be overwhelming, while you still end up with a gorgeous piece of custom art for your home!

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