Good Sleeper in Crib Awful Since Transitioning

I'm not a fan of going back, and wouldn't put the crib back up but leave the bed in her room and let her sleep on the floor. At some point she will get more comfortable with the idea. Buy her books about moving from a crib to a bed:
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Enough-Bed-Sesame-Street/dp/037...
http://www.amazon.com/Your-Own-Big-Rita-Bergstein/dp/0670...
http://www.amazon.com/How-Will-Ever-Sleep-This/dp/1402743...
http://www.amazon.com/Time-Sleep-Transition-Times-Books/d...

Develop a relaxing bedtime routine for her with bath, rubdown with relaxing nighttime lotion, stories, etc. Darken the room, dim the lights, use a fan for white noise, speak in quiet voices after dinner and slow things down for her, no TV or roughhousing.

Check out some books for you to read on sleep solutions for toddlers.
http://anndouglas.typepad.com/sleepsolutions/sleep_book_r... ~
Sleep Solution Book reviews

And get a her mat like the type they use in preschool for her to sleep on when you vacation and at home, kids can use these through kindergarten, my guy has one for trips away from home:
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?sku=17307037&...
http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/animal-nap-mats/
http://www.littlepeoplescove.com/nap-mats-and-sleep-mats....

Hope this helps, God bless.

We just transitioned my 2.5 year old son last week, so I am certainly not an expert. We moved my son to a new room so we can leave the nursery for the new baby. We started doing the night time routine in the new room and would put him in the new bed. When he would climb out of the new bed, we would put him back a few times. Then we would just put him in the crib. After 3 nights he no longer got out of the bed. The way his new bed is, it's a lot darker, so we added an extra night light too. That may help.

This happened to my girls too. So, I used a push-pull method. That is, I tried my best to help them feel safe and secure at bedtime, but also tried to set and enforce limits. I printed out a routine of our bedtime steps with illustrations. I made sure to get them some significant exercise during the day so they would be tired. I started using books on CD to play quietly for them at night. Now they like the light on dim when they sleep, but sometimes I feel that dark is better.
You can even try a paying method which I found helpful but I couldn't keep it up -- your daughter gets a quarter each night, and if she calls out to you, she loses it. Also I discovered that they didn't need naps anymore, and if they got a nap in the car by accident or something, bedtime was all that much more difficult.
I treated repeated calling out for me or getting out of bed as a misbehavior. "If you keep calling out for me, I will take away your stories, because I think they are keeping you awake." This got pretty good results, because she didn't want her stories taken away. "If you get out of bed, I will take your pillow for just a second, because it doesn't seem that you want it, and it really is SO cozy and I think it will make me feel so nice and sleepy." I had to be careful to take things away only for a tiny bit of time because at that age they can upset enough to make it harder for them to go to sleep. Good luck!

i wouldnt of transistioned her outa the bed until she was climbing out personally. my daughter is 2.5 and we just got her a new bed and its a crib that will go into a toddler bed when she is ready not before. I think that if they nap out of their crib thats fine but at night they should be in their crib until they tell you and show you that they do not want to be in their crib