SESAME STREET NURSERY THEME - NURSERY MURAL

by Susana Zavala
(Lawton, OK, USA)

OSCAR AND BIG BIRD MURAL - SESAME STREET NURSERY THEME

Let me tell you, it was not as easy as I thought it would be! I got this bright idea of doing a Sesame Street nursery theme which I thought was going to be a piece of cake, right?

The reason that we decided to decorate the baby's room in a Sesame Street theme is because it took us back to a memorable time when we were kids. We wanted to share those fun, carefree moments with our children. So, what better way to start than with a custom mural in the baby's bedroom?

We are big on DIY decorating projects so we thought we could manage this custom wall painting design with no problem and it did turn out to be a very cute mural with the primary colors, painted alphabet letters and numbers. It made us glad that we chose a Sesame Street nursery theme for our little boy's room!

Here are the instructions for painting the Sesame Street theme wall mural.

We painted half of the bedroom a serene light sky blue color with fluffy white painted clouds in the sky. Then we used a jungle green paint color to paint the grass on the lower portion of the nursery wall.

Rather than try to draw Big Bird, Oscar and any other designs free hand, I borrowed a projector to help me draw the Sesame Street characters, Big Bird and Oscar, on the walls. Using the projector for accuracy we traced the outlines for our favorite characters on the dark green and light blue background that we had already painted and that had been allowed to dry completely.

Once the outlines were drawn, I bought paint in the appropriate colors to paint the large characters. We used acrylic paint that we bought at the Hobby Lobby. The brushes that we used were an outliner, an angle brush, and a round brush.

While we were there we picked up some cute decorations to add to the Sesame Street nursery theme in the shapes of flowers and animals to make the mural more three dimensional. They did a lot to add color as well as texture to the overall design, plus they filled areas so that we didn't have to draw more characters.


We are so proud of our baby's Sesame Street mural. It blends perfectly with the Sesame Street baby bedding and everybody loves it. It should last at least until our baby goes through the toddler stage and maybe until preschool.

Painting a whole wall mural isn't that difficult a task, it's just very time consuming. In the end it was all worth it. Our baby boy loves all the bright colors. When he wakes up in the morning he wakes up with a sunny smile and I have to believe that it has something to do with the bright and cheerful custom nursery mural that his dad and I painted ourselves.

The mural has added so much to the look of our baby's nursery that I recommend anyone to jump in and paint one for their child's bedroom.