Animal Silhouettes

My favorite room in our house is my son's. Matt and I poured our hearts into creating a room that could pass as a nursery and a playroom. Now that my son is almost two years old, I'm so thankful that we made "play" a priority. We spend hours in his room, and I love every minute of it.

One of the decor elements that we created were canvas animal silhouettes that we hung along the wall. I love these, and so does my son. He wakes up many mornings pointing to them. He will point to one, I say "goose," and then he goes down the line, pointing to each, waiting for me to name the animals. The pointing always ends with the Big Buck. Not a silhouette, but definitely his favorite animal in the room.

Doe, Squirrel, Bear, Moose, and Goose.

I can't take credit for those darling bear paw hooks. Gotta love Target.

There wasn't enough room for the bunny, so we put him on a different wall.

Oh, and that clock! I love that clock. Once again, thanks Target.

That's the big buck.

The view from Henry's train table. Excuse me. The view from his "choo-choo."

The moose is my favorite.

And here is how we made them:

• I bought blank canvases from the craft store. I think they are each 9" x 11".
• We painted each one (we mixed a shade of green that complimented his room).
• I used Google Images to find silhouettes of each animal. I Googled terms such as "moose silhouette" and searched for images that best captured a silhouette.
• I enlarged each picture (silhouette) to 8" x 10" and printed them.
• I cut out the silhouettes and traced them (with pencil) on the painted canvases (once the canvases were dry).
• With brown paint, we filled in the trace marks.

And that's it! So simple. And so perfect for our son's room.