How to set up a Playroom for your Kitchens Kid

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Ensuring your child’s (or children’s) play environment is set up to meet their needs is crucial to healthy development at home. It’s totally possible to create a space that is perfect for all your kids, so be sure to look up the other Environments if you have more than one child at home.

The playroom is a great space to expose your child to the natural elements they require in their environment. By taking great care in observing what works and doesn’t work for your child, you’ll be able to train your child to recognize what they resonate to through a natural osmosis.

From ages zero to 30, our bodies are in their energetic childhood. It’s important to expose our bodies to the space they resonate to, because the Environment becomes crucial in the second life phase during the 30s, 40s, and 50s. If you are not aware of what you do and do not resonate to at that time, life can become very challenging. Our wellbeing relies on our state and resonance within our Environment.

Set your children up by encouraging them through aligned practices that work for them, and creating a nurturing and supportive learning environment that fits their unique needs and learning style.

Create a focal point to the space

Depending on how you set up the room and what kind of space is available to you, where does it make the most sense for the room to all come together? Maybe this is in the center of the space in some way, or maybe there is a grand feature somewhere. When you enter the space, create an obvious focal point that attracts the eye. You want there to be something exciting and stimulating about their playroom.

Center a large craft table or play mat

Depending on your child’s interests and age, how might you design the room around their craft or favourite hobby? Encourage them to make arts and crafts, playful messes, or play fun games by building it into the space somehow. Make it very easy for them to access these things (that are age appropriate).

Surround the space with craft supplies

These kids are little artists! It doesn’t mean each one is a painter or a drawer, but that they have an incredibly creative way they go about doing things. Create a hub where they can grab something they like in every different area or zone they find themselves in. Maybe all the markers are in the middle of the room and organized like a rainbow; maybe you keep all the colourful beads for their beadwork project arranged in rows like art on the walls. How might you be able to MAKE ART with their things?

Surround the space with toys

Toys, toys, toys everywhere! How might their toys become part of the art? Are all their stuffies or Barbies organized on the shelves? Maybe their books on the wall are acting like the art. Surround the space with their toys so that no matter where they look, they are inspired, ready to play or get into something creatively.

Let it get messy sometimes

It’s totally natural for these kiddos to spread their toys out everywhere and make a bit of a mess. This is fun for them and a healthy part of their process! Through some creative chaos, they can bump into incredible creations, ideas, concepts and discoveries. This is a very important part of their process. Is there an area somewhere where there could be no rules or they could make a total mess? Maybe your tween has the run of the workshop because they love building things. Think creative space to do what they please. Sure, they can clean up, but letting it get out of control sometimes is where the magic unfolds.

Build a hang out area to chill

Kitchens kids love to be where the action is, even if that means a chill hangout with their friends or stuffies. Create a fun hang out area somewhere in their playroom so they have a space to relax and get cozy — bonding intellectually and emotionally and not just through play!

Organize the space according to activity

The Kitchen definitely benefits from being organized, especially because there are a lot of different activities that typically happen in that space. Consider how you can creatively use cubbies, boxes or baskets to organize the space into different activities, zones, or play areas depending on the space available to you and the interests of your child.