How to Display Your National Park Stickers as Decorations

There is something so fun about going to the visitor center at a national park and looking around.

I started looking for stickers from each national park a long time ago.

Every bottle I own has stickers all over it. My computer is covered too.

There is no more room. I want a new, more permanent way to display my stickers.

I happened upon a pack of stickers with a similar sticker for every national park.

I knew they would make a great national park display for our home, and I had to figure it out.

I wanted to look at the stickers and park maps every day.

But, if you’re like me, it takes time to figure out how to display your national park stickers.

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Why does no one talk about this?

It’s important to know that my whole house is only decorated with pictures I’ve taken from our travels.

I don’t buy art when we travel, no matter how tempted I am.

We don’t have knickknacks.

Our memories come to life with visual reminders of each experience.

We get to go down memory lane every time I print new pictures.

I looked on Google and Pinterest for too many hours. I found options for stickers on computers or bottles. I even found sticker books!

Since I couldn’t find what I was looking for anywhere else, I brainstormed until I came up with my own.
I’m sharing it to help you! I’ll also tell you what I wish I’d done differently.

What You Need to Display Your National Park Sticker

There are several options here. You can pick a new sticker from each national park you go to or get a pack of stickers from Amazon or the NPS Website.

It’s available online, and I’ve also seen it in most national park visitor centers.

I used the national park maps you get when you enter the park that I’ve collected for years. You can use this same idea with postcards. Or, just use a smaller frame.

You’ll also want a picture frame. I got a poster-sized frame.

Honestly, I thought the stickers were larger than they are.

I could have done an 11×14 frame and been okay. I wish I would’ve gone smaller. Then I wouldn’t have had to mess with the National Park brochures.

Other things I considered

We debated getting a pack of silicone-coated paper so I could move the stickers around.

The paper was as expensive as the stickers, and I decided I’d get a new pack of stickers and not have 200 pieces of paper I’d never use.

I just flipped over the page that comes in the frame when you purchased it and went with it.

Plan out your display

I decided to stick my stickers in the top left corner of my frame. I like mine in relatively even lines, so I planned to do a block of stickers with columns and rows.

You may like a random and less orderly setup. You do you.

Using a poster frame and the national park sticker set means you’ll have room for more than stickers (like park maps or postcards).

If you’re using stickers you pick up at each park, they are probably bigger. In that case, leave room for more stickers and perhaps a random pattern in case the new stickers don’t match as well.

I picked out the park maps from some of our favorite national parks and started arranging them.

It took some trial and error. Park maps too close to the edge keep the frame from closing.

They can’t be stacked on top of one another for the same reason.

I ended up lining them up in columns and rows again. I was able to include about nine of them. Postcards would have been easier.

Create your Sticker Display

Start with your stickers and arrange them how you like.

The postcards or park maps will have to be taped to the background. They will stay put when you hang up your display if taped. I know because I tried it, so you don’t have to.

I just looped a single piece of tape for each one. I wanted to stick the maps sparingly just in case I want to change my display later.

Display Your National Park Stickers and Enjoy the Memories

Taking the time to figure out how to display your national park stickers will be so worth it.

Ours looks so good in the hallway with our global scratch map but a scratch map like this would be cute!

It’s easy to forget where we’ve been and what we’ve done.

The visual reminder with the sticker leads to so many “Oh yeah… do you remember when?” moments.

The memories from travel and experiences make the good vibes last longer.