Turn your princess into a Disney princess with a bedroom makeover.
Becoming a princess may seem like an awfully hard accomplishment in real life, but in Disney movies, it can happen to almost anyone. Little girls have lived the princess life through Disney characters for decades, with the good-natured and good-hearted princesses teaching lessons and serving as entertainment. If your own little princess wishes she could become a real princess, shake a little pixie dust and give her the bedroom of her royal dreams.
Under the Sea
Let your little princess take after Ariel, from Disney's "The Little Mermaid," and turn her bedroom into an underwater paradise. Start by painting all of the walls and ceiling blue and adding a blue area rug so she'll truly feel like she's under water. Add green drifts of seaweed and white bubbles surrounding her bed. If you're artistic, use red paint to draw the cantankerous crab, Sebastian, and yellow and blue to paint Ariel's other best friend, Flounder. You can find posters, stickers and rub-on transfers of these characters at craft stores or Disney merchandisers to help create the "Under the Sea" atmosphere.
Asian Inspiration
Disney's 1998 movie "Mulan" was an inspirational tale of a non-traditional princess, the young girl Mulan who sneaks into the Chinese army and battles to defend her family. The movie is heavily influenced by Asian architecture and calligraphy, which you can use to transform your daughter's bedroom into a Mulan-themed getaway. Instead of rugs, add tatami mats to the floor, and give your princess some privacy with a geisha-printed changing screen. Bamboo window coverings block out light and keep with the Asian theme. Get your daughter involved by letting her help you create a border around the room with Chinese calligraphy tools, spelling out her name repeatedly as you work your way around the walls.
Wonder Room
The movie "Alice in Wonderland" has been released multiple times, most recently as a live action film starring Johnny Depp in 2010, but Disney's take on it introduced little girls to the princess Alice in 1951. Taken directly from Lewis Carroll's book, the Disney movie featured Alice growing and shrinking, meeting crazy characters, such as a pink and purple Cheshire Cat and two dim twins called the Tweedles. Give your daughter the princess experience in multiple sizes by decorating her bedroom as Alice's Wonderland. Paint pictures of her as very small with objects around her much bigger than they usual, and on another section of the wall, show her as giant, like Alice becomes. For a room border, paint hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs, the images seen when the evil Queen of Hearts attempts to direct her loyal card subjects to take off Alice's head. Hang a large clock in your daughter's room--though unlike the Mad Hatter's clock, which always runs two days and two hours too late, ensure the clock for your keeps the correct time.
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