How to create wallpaper animals

You will need

• Resene Wallpaper in your choice of designs; Fleur used Resene Wallpaper Collection
  • HAN100327221 – elephant, 69736629 – rhino, 69802112 – cheetah, 434057 – monkey and GP5917 – parrot
• Animals print outs
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Blutac

Instructions

Step 1:  Find some animal silhouettes online and size them so that they will be big enough. Fleur measured the width of the wallpaper that she used for the elephant and then made the elephant the same height. To maximise the size or your animal turn your wallpaper to suit the animal. For a tall animal such as a giraffe turn the wallpaper to portrait orientation, for long animal turn your wallpaper sideways. Re-size your remaining animals so that they are proportionate size to each other.

Print the images out and use a pair of scissors to cut them out.

Step 2:  Use the cut-out to trace around on the back of the Resene wallpaper. Use scissors to cut this out.

Step 3:  Repeat for all the animals.

Step 4:  Use Blutac to attach the animals to the wall so they can be easily removed later. Or you can apply them like normal wallpaper.

Top tip: If you can’t find wallpaper in colours to suit, paint Resene testpots onto Resene Anaglypta wallpaper, allow to dry then cut out your chosen shapes.

Styling and images by Fleur Thorpe, 2019.