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Also of note – if you have ‘orange peel’ walls, the stencils really don’t stick very well which makes the painting process take way more time that if you had a flat surface to stick to. It also means that the edges of your characters will not be nice and smooth…because your wall is not nice and smooth. This means you have to do a lot of touch up painting when you finish with all the stenciling.

Although it seems like a deal that they supply the brushes when you purchase directly from their site, the sponges just don’t work as well as real bristle brushes and again – it takes you a while to figure that out so that increase the amount of time it takes to do the painting.

Overall, I LOVE how may son’s new paint job looks – he even helped on a couple of pieces of it and he is 6. However, don’t think it will be done in one weekend. We had to take everything out of his room and it has been sitting in my office now for almost a month. Inconvenient to say the least.

I did however, rate this at 4 stars as these are all minor compared to the cool room my son now has! Just be forewarned to schedule a good deal of time to make it happen.

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This stencil kit is a great idea to decorate a nursery or young girl’s room. You’ll runout of space before you run out of ideas on how to use them. Once we were done with the room we realized we still had six we had not gotten to yet.

A couple of tips when using these. We placed these on walls that were “knock down” textured walls. Applying the stencils on knock down is tricky, as the paint will escape the confines of the stencil if you use too much. Flat walls would undoubtedly be easier. We cured this by painting in from the edges and not towards them. Also, you should give each stencil about 10 minutes to dry before reapplying. We found that trying to immediately reuse one would cause paint splatters on the wall when reapplying.

When pulling them, off do so slowly in one direction. We found this method prevented most imperfections.

We enjoyed decorating our first daughter’s nursery with this product.

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I would recommend buyers purchase their own painting tools. These items are relatively inexpensive, and the ones that come in the kit aren’t that great. I spent about 5-10 bucks on painting tools, and it was well worth it. The acrylic paint is what gets you, in terms of cost, anyways. I probably spent about 100 bucks on paint, maybe more.

The stencils begin losing a lot of their sticky after about 8-10 applications. So for the grass, picket fence, and other stencils you will use repeatedly, use them in high priority areas first.

The stencils still work very well on texturized walls.

If you are painting the room a base color, I would wait several days before using the stencils. The paint may otherwise lift up. The instructions say that you can also sprinkle some baby powder on the stencils to make them less sticky (which supposedly lessens the risk of lifting the paint underneath). I was paranoid so I tried this, and it was a waste of a stencil. It lost it’s sticky almost entirely, and was not at all necessary. Luckily it was a stencil I only needed to use once.

It’s tempting to add the butterflies, birds, bugs, etc. in the beginning, but I would recommend waiting until your tree, flowers, fence, grass, and other big items are painted.

I painted the flowers on the tree three difference colors, and it didn’t look so good. Not awful, but not great. Now the stencil has lost it’s sticky, so I am going back now and hand-painting all of the flowers the same color.

For fun I also purchased some glitter paint (clear paint with some sparkles in it). This was a nice touch on the bees wings, and other places that could use some uumph.

Very fun activity. So glad I bought it!