Gorgeous children's bedrooms awaiting Santa's arrival

Santa can’t fail to stop by with Christmas bedrooms that look this festive

Start the Christmas countdown with these magical ideas for decorating children’s bedrooms.

Have yourself a trad little Christmas

Take a nostalgic approach when it comes to Christmas decorating, with classic bedroom schemes in festive holly red and green with lots of plaids, stripes, patchwork and cute woodland animals.

Give a plain room a festive flourish with a cheery tartan blanket and pillows and garlands of fresh foliage on the mantle.

Little ones will love this cute robin bedlinen. Rustic Robin range, Dunelm.

‘Santa stop here’ slate sign, £9.99, Bespoke &
Beautiful

Try a rustic décor with colourful patchwork quilts and knitted blankets piled high on the bed. Decorate with jolly garlands and decs suspended from a branch.

Personalised Christmas hessian sack with Santa stamp,
£19.99, Getting Personal

Make the bed the focalpoint with a garland of pine cones and berries strung across the end – add your own festive message tied on with paper luggage tags.

‘Sleeps til Christmas’ hanging sign, £3.95, Luck &
Luck

Create your own ‘diy’ advent calendar – peg mini craft bags to lengths of cord and pin them up on the wall – then fill with tiny Christmas treats.

Hanging envelope advent calendar, £7.99, The Oak Room

Make it modern, merry and bright

Prefer colourful brights and Christmas décor with a contemporary edge? Make it a cool yule with these modern Christmas schemes.

Grown up girls will love this smart berry-coloured bedroom – check out those oversized baubles.

Multicoloured Star marquee wall light, £150, Bhs

Decorate in bold primary colours, with brightly painted furniture, Christmas duvet on the bed and a colourful nativity scene pride of place.

Wooden nativity set, £25, Marks & Spencer

Try an all-white Christmas scheme with bold pops of colour here and there.

Customisable cinema light box, £36, The Drifting Bear

Make it chic and Scandi with painted panelling, whitewashed woodwork and lots of jolly red accessories. Reindeer and Jingle cushions, £10 each; stockings £1 each; sack, £5; all Tesco Direct

Santa snow globe, £22, Debenhams

Share the magic

Christmas rooms are twice as nice when you share with a sibling.

Mix ditsy, playful patterns in a bold yuletide palette of red, frosty white and aqua blue.

Lit joy sign, £30, Sainsbury’s

Mix and match with retro-patterned reversible bedlinens. Jolly Holiday bedding set, £35, Bhs

Go for simple Scandi style with a pared-back look:
rustic wooden beds, plain cotton bedding, simple woollen stockings and unfussy sprigs of ivy and fir.