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DIY Art Gallery Display for a Toddler’s Room

in Crafts & DIY, Home Decor

My daughter is really into art projects. Is that surprising? She’s been doing them since she was 5 months old and now that she’s cranking them out at home and school we needed someplace to display all her masterpieces! I was sick of these projects just piling up on the kitchen counter so we decided to turn a large blank wall in her bedroom into a fun art gallery display.

DIY art gallery wall - included in toddler bedroom to hang art projects | spotofteadesigns.com

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This is just the first glimpse of her baby nursery room updated to for 3 year old toddler self.

DIY art gallery wall in toddler room | spotofteadesigns.com

First up for this project was a trip to the lumber section of Lowes. And yes they are wearing shorts as this was a project we started back in September!

DIY art gallery wall in toddler room | spotofteadesigns.com

Basic Supplies:

  • Wood
  • Bulldog clips
  • White Paint and Primer in one
  • Polycrylic protective finish
  • Router (optional)
  • Keyhole Picture Hangers
DIY art gallery wall in toddler room - routering the wood | spotofteadesigns.com

To make the art gallery a little more interesting, Derek added a edge detail to the wood pieces. I’m not sure why this guy always does his projects outside when he has a full garage space with a workbench, but he does! Meanwhile, I LOVE this shot of him doing the handyman thing, mostly for all the little bits and pieces you can see flying out!

Next over a few nights, he painted and applied polycrylic to the wood. These are the same steps and materials he’s used on a few projects for our house, including Brielle’s dresser makeover. Those two cans went a long way!

DIY art gallery wall in toddler room | spotofteadesigns.com

After all that thoroughly dried, he screwed the clips on front, staggering the positions between the three pieces of wood so projects didn’t overlap.

Pink and Yellow Toddler Bedroom Tour - diy art gallery display | spotofteadesigns.com

NOTE: These are not exactly kid friendly clips as they are on the tight side. Hoping this isn’t an issue down the road but right now she knows that only mom or dad will clip the projects up to display.

DIY art gallery wall - included in toddler bedroom to hang art projects | spotofteadesigns.com

To hang the actual boards, we did some research and decided to go with keyhole hangers.  This way it would be a lot harder for them to lift up the wood to take them off and potentially have the wood fall on them. He added 3 to the back of each board.

DIY art gallery wall - included in toddler bedroom to hang art projects | spotofteadesigns.com

Up the art gallery display went and right away I clipped up some of her best works! Sure many of these are designs done at school but some are part of art kits. Toddler moms – I highly recommend: Ready Set Cut, Ready Set Paste, and My Giant Busy Box. Yes I work for the company that makes these but I’m writing this as a mom, not an employee.

Pink and Yellow Toddler Bedroom Tour - blank wall includes diy art gallery display| spotofteadesigns.com

I love how they are individually packaged so we were able to take out each project one day at a time and spread out the art fun over a bunch of indoor days. Most of the activities were doable all on her own as they have very little directions and include a finished photo as inspiration.  They are some of my favorite kits to give for birthdays and holidays now so friends, don’t be surprised if this is what I gift!

Pink and Yellow Toddler Bedroom Tour | spotofteadesigns.com

The bedroom tour is now up! Check it out!

Updated Craft Room Tour | spotofteadesigns.com

Years later, in our next house, we used more of these clips for a similar art display over my office desk where she (and her little sister) hung their art creations.

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  1. Nicole says

    January 8, 2017 at 8:42 am

    Something to think about for our mudroom/playroom :)

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