20 Creative Ways To Incorporate Art In A Baby Nursery

While you surely want your baby's room to be an adorable space that also boasts appropriately chic ideas, there are a few reasons why you might want to make sure you accent the room with art. Although adults can definitely find creative images and aesthetically pleasing crafted items both intriguing and enriching, children — even young babies and toddlers — can greatly benefit from being around art.

Introducing children to art can expose them to a wide range of people, places, and ideas while also potentially sparking their own creative skills and interests, according to Académie Marie-Claire. On top of that, making sure art is a part of your child's life early on can help them learn to deal with their feelings in a healthy manner and can even help them do better in school. Petit Early Learning Journey also points out that when children are around art on a regular basis, it can benefit everything from their self-expression to their identity as well as their confidence.

Of course, when it comes to choosing art for your little one's room, there are seemingly countless artists creating incredible pieces that may be perfect for your kiddo's space. That's not to mention the many fabulous ways you can incorporate art into a baby nursery, including the following charming, cute, and creative ideas that you'll surely love.

There are plenty of ways to incorporate macramé into your home, from plant holders to pillows. When it comes to using the art form in a baby's room, hanging pieces can be a lovely choice. The soft nature of the items means they can add a creatively cozy vibe to any room, including your little one's nursery.

Keeping a nursery tidy can be much easier if you have proper storage, which can include a spacious shelving unit. Fortunately, there are craftspeople who make shelves in a range of creative designs and eye-catching materials such as this light wood giraffe. Of course, shelves can also be a great place to display smaller pieces of art.

Mobiles are a great way to help an infant develop their cognitive abilities and physical skills as well as their eyesight in a way that's pleasing and safe, according to Happiest Baby. While offering visual interest due to the movement, mobiles also use artistic shapes and designs to capture a child's attention and keep them entertained.

Thanks to the fact that dressers have surfaces that are wide, tall, or both and are relatively flat, they make an ideal spot for art. While you could paint detailed scenes or figures that a baby will love on the front of each drawer, you can also add simple artistic shapes to each area like darling multicolored raindrops.

You surely don't want the bins in your baby's art-filled room to be left unadorned and boring. Another ideal surface for pretty much any kind of design, these particular bins are almost too cute to handle. With rounded bits that create little ears, they also have painted faces of a beaver, bunny, and bear.

Weaving is an art form that has been practiced for countless generations. Often used to create practical yet beautiful items like baskets and stool covers as you can see here, it can also be used for purely decorative pieces. In this nursery, wicker has been woven into a penguin basket and lion wall piece among other items.

If you add a chalkboard wall to your baby's nursery, then you can change the art that's displayed on it whenever you'd like. You can even grab various colors of chalk to snazzy-up your drawings. When they're old enough, the child who's lucky enough to spend time in this room will be able to add their own art.

There's no doubt that stuffed animals can make great toys and companions for infants and toddlers, which is why you might find them in a nursery. However, plush figures can also be used as artistic pieces when arranged on a shelf or wall. Your little one would likely love crafted characters like this llama and lion.

If you don't have the confidence to take on a full mural or the budget to hire an artist to create one for your baby's room, then you can get the same kind of effect with artistic wallpaper. Once an outdated and inconvenient option, modern wallpaper can be simple to put up and even easier to keep clean.

Make the walls of your little one's nursery creative, colorful, and soft by putting up art that's made of either fuzzy felt or plush foam. Another project that you can tackle yourself if you already have an idea in mind, you can also pick up prepared pieces that you can easily arrange on any wall.