Walls

• Paint the walls with colors that, like bugs, are found in nature. Consider brown like the trees and dirt, green like grass or yellow like sunshine for a boy’s room. Pastels in a girl's room might represent the evening skies of summer. Recreate the look of a backyard garden, where many bugs reside, with picket fencing installed along the walls. Use stencils to paint bugs flying above fence, or apply bug-themed wall stickers. Add garden flowers in a girl’s room or tree branches for boys. Perch plush or figurine-style bug creatures on floating shelves to create the illusion of bugs sitting on the fence. Suggestions for girls’ rooms include ladybugs, dragonflies and butterflies. For boys’ rooms, consider beetles, spiders, flying insects and bumblebees, combined with other creepy critters such as frogs and snakes.
  
  

Linens

• Dress the room in bedding with a bug-print pattern, along with matching curtains. Purchase these or design your own with fabric paint, stencils and solid-colored linens. Add your design to sheets, quilts, curtains and lampshades. Use the same stencils to add matching bug details to places such as the headboard and on closet doors.
  
  

Accessories

• Accessorize with plush bugs and bug throw pillows on the bed. Purchase a bug-shaped throw rug for the floor, or use stencils and floor paint to add bugs to the floorboards. Use bug-themed rubber stamps and craft paint to print bugs on children’s furniture pieces such as step stools, desks and bookcases. Hang a magnifying glass and butterfly net on one of the walls, and drape a mosquito net, canopy style, over the bed. A tank that houses live spiders or other insects can add authenticity to the room design, but if the idea makes you squeamish, set up a goldfish bowl with artificial grass, silk leaves and plastic replicas of the little critters.
  
  

Lighting

• Found in garden centers, string lights that feature dragonflies or butterflies are lovely accents for a bug-themed room. Drape them over window valances and archways. From the ceiling, hang paper lanterns, stamped with bug prints. Place mock firefly jars on shelves or dresser tops. To create these, flick glow-in-the-dark paint specks into mason jars. Another way to create “fireflies” is to paint small buttons or cardboard cutouts with glow paint. Glue them to twigs and arrange the twigs inside the jar.