I think they came out really cute and I'm pretty proud of them. I would have liked a colored mat but I couldn't find one that would have matched the robots very well.
We hung them on the wall where her name used to be. I only had to move a few of the stickers to make it all fit.
The reason there was space where her name had been was because her name fell off the wall. I used the blue stuff and it held for a little while. Then it started to sag. And eventually we would hear letters hitting the floor. But, of course, only at night when she was in there sleeping.
Then I had them just in a pile on top of her dresser. And, after a long time, I propped them up on top of her toy cubes so they were leaning against the wall, supported underneath, and then sort of secured them to the wall with the blue stuff.
Somehow, even though the cubes are secured to the wall and can't move, the letters started to sag again and the A at the end managed to fall behind the cubes. I really don't even understand how it happened but have given up trusting the blue stuff.
Anyway after all this I had a great idea. We used these 3M Picture Hanging Command Strips to hang the robot pictures and they have held up fantastically. So I decided to try them for the letters.
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| They're sort of like Velcro but the two pieces snap together. You put one on the wall |
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| And the other on the object you're hanging. |
It's only been a couple hours but so far so good.
I had to take down some stickers on this wall to put up the name. When we first did the room I put the stickers in circle patterns and every time she grew a little she would pull the next highest sticker off. We started with three circles and today we had one and a half circles left before we pulled them off.
Luckily we had lots of stickers left so I added some more around her name.
She said she likes it but I think she was just excited to play with the old stickers I pulled off.
