I made some paper-covered letters as decorations for my niece's room a while back, and now I'm going to do the same for my nephews' room. I love this project because it doesn't take much skill, and the end result is so cute!
Start by going to a craft store (Or Kohl's has them too) and buying the wooden letters you need. They come in several sizes and styles:

I bought the ones I needed for my nephews, James and Randall:

Next pick the papers you want to cover them with. I'm using greens for one nephew and blues and reds for the other. I think their room walls are dark blue, but the letters will still stand out because you only cover the front surface with paper and leave the edges white (they come painted white already).

Now just trace the letters, one by one, onto the desired papers:


And then just use scissors to cut them out:

So you have something that looks like this:

And then just use a glue stick to paste it on. I used the "wrinkle free" kind of glue stick you get in the scrapbook section with the adhesives.

And you've got a cute paper-covered letter:

So I did that for all the letters, and this was the result:

You can mount them onto a board like this (I'm going to paint the board black), or you can just hang the letters individually on the wall. Or if you have a girl, you can use cute colorful ribbons to hang them.
Oh my gosh WOW those are cute!!!
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