TROPICAL RAINFOREST THEME
DECORATING IDEAS

Extreme weather changes have brought lots of attention to the tropical rainforest as well as the melting polar icecap. Awareness of the situation has been brought into focus by scientists and environmental groups and I have been asked by many of my eco-minded visitors to come up with some ideas for a themed nursery for their infants.
My first thoughts on a rainforest style of décor were that a jungle is a jungle. How different could an Amazon jungle be from the African jungle? I almost began gathering decorations without checking my facts and that would have been a big mistake on my part. Thank Heaven that I found myself with some time on my hands that gave me the opportunity to take a look at some pictures of the tropical rainforest.

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The pictures and some research gave me some pretty cool decorating and painting ideas for tropical rainforest baby nursery themes. At first glance you might consider some of the techniques similar to the classic jungle baby nursery themes. You may find some similarities but I hope that you’ll focus on some of the rare and unusual tropical rainforest animals, plants, flowers and trees that have the ability to make this gender neutral nursery decorating project quite unique.

TREE MURALS
If you are patient and artistic, you could paint a nursery wall mural with some of the trees of the rainforest. You might include the cacao with its large pods or the cecropia with its large leaves shaped like a human hand or the teak with its huge oval leaves. If the idea of painting the entire nursery wall with tropical trees and foliage is not your idea of fun, you could use wall stickers for most of the scenery and paint some of the leaves and fruit yourself. Don’t worry about perfection and go crazy with details because you can always cover things up with stickers of tropical birds, butterflies and monkeys.

DECORATING A NURSERY WITH ANIMALS OF THE TROPICAL RAINFOREST
The rainforest is home to some of our favorite mammals. Babies love all monkey themes from sock monkeys to Curious George, so large toy orangutans and gorillas will fit in with your nursery design. You can keep things interesting with the addition of spider monkeys, lemurs and a few common chimpanzees. Mix things up in the mammal department of your bedroom with some big cats like Bengal Tigers. This would also be a great time to teach baby that all Jaguars don’t come with leather upholstery and four wheels!

A CHILD’S ROOM FILLED WITH TROPICAL RAINFOREST FROGS
Start with a set of infant’s rainforest frog baby bedding and then decorate the floors and corners with some dwarf red eyed tree frogs tucked into special spots for baby to find on his adventures outside the crib. It’s doubtful that you could find any sweet or endearing qualities of the poisonous varieties like the Poison Dart Frog, but the colorful red eye tree frogs make excellent decorative items.

COLORFUL, RARE BIRDS OF THE RAINFOREST
Toucans and parrots are just a few of the wonderful birds of the Congo that you can add to your plants and animals decorations. Toucans are crucial to the rainforest because they are fruit eaters and disperse the seeds of the fruits in their diet around the rain forest. You will surely want one of these rare birds perched in your rainforest nursery’s canopy.

REPTILES
Soft toy reptiles and lizards add just another layer to your décor. Some moms have refused to include toy snakes in their baby’s room. The Amazon is famous for giant reptiles so if you are shooting for realism, a few toy snakes are essential.

WINDOW TREATMENTS
You might feel that less is more and opt to keep your windows open to the outdoors. If some sun protection is needed, gauzy green mosquito netting might be the key to keeping things feeling tropical while making the room dark enough for baby to sleep well during the afternoon nap.

At the time of this article, there aren’t many choices in tropical rainforest theme baby gear, baby strollers or baby crib bedding sets available. However, I look for baby product manufacturers to jump on board as organic baby items and environmental awareness is becoming more fashionable and stylish every day.

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