I’m trying to decorate 4 kids rooms spending little or no money while doing it. Hubby says I have a craft and thrift store in the basement. Well, I guess that’s a good thing now.
I had these 3 frames down stairs in my stash, but 2 were the wrong color. So, of course,I spray painted them all black.
Ammon loves Legos. He plays with them everyday and comes up with many different and pretty impressive creations. These Lego cards are from an old game that I thought would be perfect hanging on his wall.
I cut blue card stock to fit inside the frame.
And used double sided tape to secure the card to the card stock.
Then I placed them in the frames.
And lined them up on the wall.
Ammon’s room is road signs, subway art and maps in black, brown and blue.
I wanted to be able to incorporate the Legos too, so I chose the cards with vehicles on them. They’re a little brighter than the rest of the room, but I think they still fit in well and I love the pop of red.
Ammon loves them on the wall and he’s already made all of them.
Please ignore the really beat up wall. His walls need to be spackled and painted, but I’m painting Zach’s room right now, so Ammon’s will have to wait.
Have a Beautiful Weekend! (we start soccer games again tomorrow)
I’m linking to:
Weekend Wrap Up Party at Tatertots and Jello
Saturday Nite Special Funky Junk Interiors
Craft Schooling Sunday at Creative Jewish Mom
Sunday Showcase Party at Under the Table and Dreaming
Make It 4 Monday at Cottage Instincts
DIY Project Parade at The DIY Show Off
Topsy Turvy Tuesday at I’m Topsy Turvy
Get Your Craft On at Today’s Creative Blog
Whatever Goes Wednesday Someday Crafts
Penny Pinching Party at The Thrifty Home
Strut Your Stuff at Somewhat Simple
Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage
Frugalicious Friday at FInding Fabulous
All About Boys Categorically Crafting Show at Someday Crafts
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What a great idea! My son is nutz over Legos too and I think he would love this in his room.
Have a great weekend.
What a clever idea to use the old instruction sheets! I’m surprised you still had them and they were in one piece! LOL. Such a “simple” way to make custom art! Nice!!
Very unique and great idea!
Love, love ideas like this!!! Testiment to my motto that you don’t have to buy store bought art. It’s so personal, just for your little guy. Very cute.
Those look great!!
This is a great idea, with many applications!
Great idea.
You are so creative!
Oh super cute!! What a fun and unique set of artwork. I love it.
~stopping by from Tatertots & Jello
what a great idea! I keep all of our manuals on how to build the different Lego thingies. Might have to try this!
I’m working on decorating 3 kids (boys) rooms all at once too right now! I would LOVE to see more ideas and things you’re doing. What a smart idea about the lego prints! Awesome.
Super cute idea, love it!
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Thats awesome! You are so creative!
Great idea! My little guy is obsessed with trains, so I took photos of old trains from an old calender and framed them for his room = perfect and no cost!
How funny! I’m getting ready to redo my son Benjamin’s room, and as he’s a lego fanatic I was trying to come up with ways to incorporate that theme….great timing and a great idea!
Very clever. My adult son would like these
He claims he was the original Zack the Lego maniac since the commercial came out when he was about twelve.
So cute and clever and a wonderful re use of those colorful cards. Good thinking!
Great idea, I be he loves these works of art! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!
This is too cute. What a creative idea.
Thanks for sharing.
Monica
What a great idea!!! I would have never thought of that!
Very clever! Brilliant use of the Lego cards. I make Lego mosaics and usually theyre the first thing that come to my mind when wondering what to hang on the wall. Still, i love this! Thanks for sharing!
My son was a Lego nut when he was younger ~ this would have been perfect for his room then! He and my hubby were always putting some of those larger kits together on my dining room table. And like my daughter put her Barbies in containers “to save”, he put his Lego’s in containers! : )
BTW, feel free to blog about your goody swap when you get it. I’ll link everyone’s post about to a main area on my blog. I’ll be doing my own post this week!
Isn’t it fun having kids.
Love that idea! Amazing as usual!
smiles!
Oh how cute. How simple, but effective. Great one to with kids too!
Would you like to link up to Kids Get Crafty over at Red Ted Art? I host it every Wednesday! This week’s link is http://www.redtedart.com/?p=3056
Hope to “see” you soon!
Thanks
Maggy
Red Ted Art
Love it! So cute and simple. Great one to do with/ for kids.
Would you like to link up to Kids Get Crafty over at Red Ted Art? I host it every Wednesday! This week’s link is http://www.redtedart.com/?p=3056
Hope to “see” you soon!
Thanks
Maggy
Red Ted Art
what a cool idea! its artwork and reference all in one! i love it! what would be cool is a tiny shelf under each picture that he can sit the matching completed project on….ooohh, or if they were in shadowboxes and the project was right in there with the directions….hey, my brain’s goin’ now!!! :0) this is what i love about the blog world!!
What a fun piece of art! My boys LOVE legos. I was hoping they’d chose a Lego theme for their new room! Thanks for linking up to Topsy Turvy Tuesday!