Every Kids Room Should Have These 3 Zones
How do you keep order in the kids’ room? Very simple: By dividing it into zones! This not only helps to keep it clean, but also helps children find their way around.
The two-time mom Avital Schrieber Levy is a self-proclaimed “childhood designer” and parent coach. With her YouTube channel The Parenting Junkie she gives thousands of parents creative ideas. One of them is to furnish the children’s room in three zones. The reason: more order, more structure for the child. And that’s how it works:
Zone 1: The creative corner
Everything that has to do with art belongs in the creative corner. Children love to cut, glue, paint, draw and Co. In the creative zone there is a table with chairs and age appropriate (!) handicraft material.
There is also room for clay, water and sand. All you need is an easily washable floor and enough boxes (preferably transparent ones) where you can store things. Coloured pencils, watercolours, modelling clay, coloured cardboard paper, glue sticks, glitter, brushes, window colour and co. find their place here.
Children should be allowed to do anything in this area – including smearing the walls if necessary (it is a good idea to put up a blackboard and chalk or stick wallpaper rolls over the actual walls).
For inspiration, pictures can be hung up, but also flat stones for painting or – depending on the season – collected chestnuts, dried leaves or flowers.
Maybe even music can be heard in the background and animate the children to dance? Musical instruments such as drums or flutes also find their place here. There are no limits to your imagination – and that of your children – in the Creative Zone!
Zone 2: The playing area
Playing is incredibly important for the development of children. Nevertheless: less is more! This zone should definitely have access to daylight and offer the children enough space to romp around a bit.
Lego bricks, dolls, toy cars and co. can be stored in colourful fabric bags that children can easily reach.
A soft carpet, which is easy to clean, is best suited for this area. Teddy bears and other soft toys find a home in this play area, as well as a shelf with puzzle and parlour games, for example.
Zone 3: The retreat
Yes, even children need some kind of quiet place. Whoever provides a zone in the children’s room for this purpose will find a rested child. But what should the place of retreat look like?
Whether a small tent, a beanbag or a corner full of pillows and blankets: whatever your child feels most comfortable in is allowed. The colours should not be too bright and should help to relax: Natural colours such as beige, blue and a subtle green, but also the child’s favourite colour, such as pink, purple or a subtle yellow, are appropriate here.
A bookshelf also finds its place in this zone, so that the child can withdraw and read in peace if it wants to. For the evening hours, fairy lights and flashlights are also popular accessories in this area.
This zone is intended to give the child the opportunity to take a nap, but also to be a place of privacy when the child wants to be alone or cuddle up.