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Do you decorate the childrens' bedrooms?

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AalyaSecura · 12/10/2014 12:25

I'm idly browsing the christmas decorations on a few sites, and wondering about the kids' bedrooms - they just don't normally feel very christmassy at all. We've got some battery operated fairy lights, and stick some of those snowflakes on their windows.

What do you have?

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AalyaSecura · 12/10/2014 18:37

Ooh lots of ideas - might need to look out for a couple of mini trees. If I can find a couple of nice Nordic / Christmassy throws, I might go for that rather than Christmas duvet set, so that they can have them downstairs for snuggling as well.

Guitargirl, decorated dolls houses sounds adorable! But with two boys in the house, I'm not sure decorating Batman's cave would have quite the same effect!

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 12/10/2014 18:44

DD has some little gingerbread man battery operated lights above her bed.
They both have Christmas fleeces that they'd had since they were toddlers but this year I've bought bedding that will go on Dec 1st until it stops being cold. DS has red with snowflakes on one side (so we can turn that over) and DD has woodland animals.

She has Yankee Candles in her room (smell lovely and she's sensible enough to burn them)

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 12/10/2014 18:47

Oooh Christmas Loo Roll Guitargirl

I have bought The Snowman loo roll, tissues and kitchen paper in previous years (Wilkos) but it just seems wrong to wipe my bum on The Snowman.
Last year I bought M&S white with silver stars and their snowman paper . Guilt free Grin

Pico2 · 12/10/2014 18:47

DD has a fibre optic tree that was our tree for a while when we CBA to have a real one. She decorates it with the hideous decorations that my nan gives her every year.

anyoldname76 · 12/10/2014 18:52

Mine have a Christmas fleece blanket over their beds and we put the window stickers up. My dd also puts tinsel and fairy lights around her bed.

AlPacinosHooHaa · 12/10/2014 22:05

Oooh Christmas Loo Roll

Just getting my head round the xmas bedding and now into the realms of guilt over arse wiping with the snow man...

Like the sound of ginger bread lights.

Oldraver · 12/10/2014 22:09

DS has a fibre optic tree a friend bought him and I have been buying him somethign Christmasey each year...His first few years it was the Christmas Disney Store soft toy, then he had some snowglobes. My Mum also gave him a lovely Winnie the Pooh on a sleigh singing thing. He also has a light in the window and last year I got him some decals for the wall oh and his Duvet

Oldraver · 12/10/2014 22:10

DS has a fibre optic tree a friend bought him and I have been buying him somethign Christmasey each year...His first few years it was the Christmas Disney Store soft toy, then he had some snowglobes. My Mum also gave him a lovely Winnie the Pooh on a sleigh singing thing. He also has a light in the window and last year I got him some decals for the wall oh and his Duvet

pigleychez · 12/10/2014 22:27

DD's each have small fake trees that they smoother in tinsel and various lairy baubles.

They also make paper chains and hanging decorations that they hang in their rooms.

Oldraver · 12/10/2014 22:45

Why did that post twice and ...wheres my picture... (huffs)

katienana · 13/10/2014 14:29

Am thinking of getting a small tree for DS(2) and putting some robust decorations on there that he could play with. I have also seen a Playmobil 123 Santa sleigh which I think would be cute on his shelves. I might put a bit of the tinsel in his bedroom, up around pictures and on high shelves as am planning on phasing it out elsewhere.
Like the Xmas blanket idea too, we will be with relatives at Christmas so it would be nice to take it with us. Will have a look in Primark.

Oldraver · 14/10/2014 12:31

Try again

Do you decorate the childrens' bedrooms?
Do you decorate the childrens' bedrooms?
Muchtoomuchtodo · 14/10/2014 12:35

Ours just have fibre optic trees in their rooms. Judging by the excitement at seeing decorations Ikea last weekend, I have a feeling they may be asking for a bit more this year!

IssyStark · 14/10/2014 13:10

Ds1 loves Xmas and always decorated his room which he shares with his little brother and the playroom. The have a tree (fiver in B&Q in January sales) , load of cheap red baubles (sales again), and stuff they make/get given over the years. Despite their birthdays being 7/12 and 16/12, they insist their decs and Xmas blankets go up on 1/12. The rest of the house doesn't get done until around 20th.

waithorse · 14/10/2014 13:13

Every room in my house gets decorated even the bathrooms. Blush Grin

JerseySpud · 14/10/2014 13:57

I have decided its not Christmas without tinsel. Ever.

I also have decided that i will be buying Christmas Duvets for my kids to give them with their advent calendars on the 1st.]

and maybe some tinsel in dd1's room the whole house will be covered

StrumpersPlunkett · 14/10/2014 23:03

Whenever we update decs for the rest of the house we keep the old ones and set the boys free decorating their own rooms. Ds1 aged 10 seems to put tinsel round the room like some kind of laser security system to be dodged in irder to give good night kisses whereas ds2 likes to struggle the unused baubles at regular intervals across his ceiling. Ooh and they have twinkly lights in their rooms as well

mabelbabel · 15/10/2014 09:51

spottymoo your idea is brilliant and I will be stealing it!

supermariossister · 15/10/2014 09:54

they have little pre lit trees the boys is blue and sd is pink. think they were 5 pound from ASDA. every year we either let them choose or chose some decorations for them in the hope that when they leave home they will have a set of decorations from childhood, I still have some of mine from my own

BiddyPop · 15/10/2014 11:36

DD has a few stuffed toys that make an appearance (a moose, a reindeer, a Santa with a sack, and a seasonal Penguin) - rather than hiding in the collection of dogs, they get proudly pulled onto the bed for bedtime snuggles (poor Max the bear gets thrown to one side for about 5 weeks, but makes occasional reappearances in the bed!).

She also has 2 snowglobes that we put on her dresser.

I bought window cling snowflakes about 4 years ago and keep forgetting to put them up.

She also has a hanging twirler yokey from the Eurovalue shop (think Poundland type of store), which is a Santa face, that hangs over the stairs up to her room in the attic.

I have battery lights this year that she eyed up longingly when I bought them, so I may lose 1 set.

But we don't do much upstairs generally.

She has a fleece (that I need to hem), but that will be for downstairs I think, as that's where she constantly snuggles up under the fleece and wool throws in the sitting room already. Maybe it will be bi-locational!

(I have looked at bedding, and found some beautiful double duvet covers - but on a US website for $$$ and then customs would be extra again so perhaps not this year, I am not particularly inspired enough by the double ones I see here or online in UK, though some single bed only ones are nice - and I am not putting her back into a single duvet as she's a kicker and I need her to sleep more than I want her room to be totally magical!).

Gunpowder · 15/10/2014 11:50

LOVE tinsel too. I think it's coming back.

starlight1234 · 15/10/2014 11:52

My DS has a christmas duvet cover . we also have santa toilet seat for bathroom. but everything else is downstairs

AtlanticDrift · 15/10/2014 12:34

My ds make paper chains from their comics for their rooms. They have christmas throws (want to get bed linen this year) and a little tree in each room.

KnittedJimmyChoos · 15/10/2014 12:48

Tinsel is 100% coming back,

saw some achingly gorgeous fake proper trees in homebase today, half price....the sort you could create your own winter forest at home with....stuning and magical Sad

Guitargirl · 15/10/2014 18:42

Why the sad face knitted?

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