What are good home-made decorations for a kids Hippie themed room?

- Make out cardboard peace signs and color them in with paints, spray paints, or anything

- Colorful beaded necklaces or braclets or chains dangling by the door entrance [plastic] , can buy kits of beads pretty cheap at craft stores

- Writing out/ typing out large PEACE, LOVE, and other hippy-ish words in colorful letters.

- Maybe tie dye the bedsheets to a rainbow color, looks nice

- Lava lamps! And kaleidoscopes if you have any,..

- Smiley faces! I’m really not sure if thats hippy-ish but they smile don’t they ? =)

Have them string beads , and make curtains out of them. You can have them take strips of fabric, and braid them, When They have enough, you join them together and then start rolling them and sewing as you go along, in a circular design, when you finish you have a lovely rug. You can also put beads on the lamp shade. They can make pillows for the bed, in fake fur.

tye- dyed curtains, lava lamp, a guitar, beaded curtains for the door and closet door, shag rug, a wall in the room where your kid and their friends could dip a hand in paint and put their print on the wall, and they can write their name and a mini message on it when it dries, you might want to cover the hand wall with heavy cardboard or something, they can save it for later if you move.

Lots of tie-dyed fabrics. (Look up "tie-dying" on the internet or get a kit/book from your local craft store). Natural objects, wood, rocks, crystals hanging in the window. Big flowers cut from craft paper in bright colours (think mamas and the papas). Giant flowers made from tissue paper and wire. Bubble writing from the seventies with phrases or words like "groovy" "radical" or "totally far out maaaan". Pull up the carpet and paint the floorboards in colorful stripes. Natural fabrics, hemp, cotton, with home-made printing/stamping. Fringes, trims, tassles, anything feathery, swirly or organic looking. Random layout with lots of overlapping.

Definitely no black, monochromatic schemes, matchy-matchy, animal prints, neatness or too much pastel.

Have fun, I’d love to do a room like that!

READY!!Peace sign Onks everywhere, lava light, bead curtain, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Joan Bias and Jimmy Hendrix, Gratefull Dead posters, Tie dyed curtains and flower pattern on the bedspread, bean bag chairs, lots of plants and macrame hangers, gods eye wall hangings.East Indian printed guaze over doorways.

Peace symbol, Pot Leaf, Smiley, Power To The People Fist, headband, Poncho, Love Beads, Flower Power, Dark Shades, Beaded Curtains, Insense, lots of Phychdelics and Tie-Die.

hippes huh – Straight out of the 60′s

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there are so many easy projects you(if yer the kid or the parent of a lazy one),or you both can do.that was the whole idea.

*rag-rugs
*macrame plant holders(lotsa plants iffn kids not too lazy!)-wall hangings-window shades(find easy instrucs on net/library)
*black light(garden section dept stores-prob. cheapest spot)
*paint by #s psychadelic-theme posters for blacklight- tacky&beautiful at same time.intricate&easy.weird.(find’em @ craft shops)
*glow stars for the ceiling and walls
*stencills personalize shelves/walls/tv and tons of other things
*mexi-blanket throws
*good stereo-turntable & lps(so cheap now in sum 2nd hands)
*tapestries for walls/bed spreads(head shops have these)
*home-made tap.s using tie-dye(liquids are better than powders-ritts cheapest/safest-not as bright/long lasting as specialty dies found on net/headshops) or
*batik(gorgeous but a bit more time consuming and skilled process) tapestries
*scarves.silky,satiny,hempy,bulky,opaque,solid,patterned,filmy,glittery,long,short,(2nd hand shops,garage sales good sources-never pay full $ for things like this)and(take care when near lamps)-throw’em everywhere
*throw pillows(again-thrift shops)-lotsa throw pillows
*floor pillows
*bean bags
*check yer folks attic for real 1960′s wallpaper-i’d a pal in hs who got hold o sum o this-it was gorgeous!crazeee stuff-black simple stylized chix in floppy hats n bkinis,love in great lettering.etc.,on white bground) or
*make some of your on with an idea (or a stolen theme from a copywrite free web image)and a printer,kinkos.put this up in strips or on 1 wall.put it in sqaures and nail picture frame about it.
*filmy squeeter net type canopy for the bed.drape it round the whole thing.
*an aquarium or fish in fish bowl(unless the kidz too lazy for a plant)
you know, stuff like that.
have fun
love
-s
ps:make yer own pottery
throw down a futon couch sted uvva reg. bed
kitchy faced alarm clock
fake tree
african statues
indian artwork
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