Creating a Stimulating Bedroom Environment for Your Child with Space Saving Kid Furniture
It’s well known that a stimulating environment is important in helping a child move from being a helpless child to one who can entertain him or herself and explore the world. It also helps the child grow both physically and mentally. How you furnish a child’s room gives you the opportunity to create the type of environment that can support such growth. Here are some suggestions that might assist you in creating a wonderful room for your child.
Bedroom furniture should be a combination of fantasy and reality. For very young children, the difference between the two is a fine line which you can make the most of. A combination of small, kid sized furniture and regular sized furniture is manageable to a young mind. Children love a place that is sized for them and they where they are not always reminded of being little. Miniature foam sofas and chairs are available. These come in colorful, imaginative prints and are not overly expensive. An added benefit is some of these open out into an off-the-floor cozy bed for your child’s "sleep-over" friends. These are so light weight that your young child can move them around themselves. Our family found sleepovers a less stressful, more fun filled event when we were prepared beforehand with the appropriate bedding. There are many types of fold-out form furniture – foam loungers, foam sofa-sleepers, and futons that already on a moments notice.
Rocking chairs are wonderful, mainly for mom and dad. Beanbag chairs and loungers are more suitable for children – comfortable and sized for them. Beanbags will conform to a child’s body shape as they sit in it, giving support to the lower back, shoulders, and arms. Beanbag couches and chairs are available in a wide variety of stimulating colors, textures, and prints. Some come in wild animal patterns, or star and moon patterns. Others come in lime green and other bright colors, while some have a wet-look vinyl cover or a furry cover. Some beanbags are even shaped like a horse or elephant. My children and grandchildren love these animal character beanbags.
Foam furniture and beanbags are lightweight making them easy for your child to move and rearrange themselves. Such independence!! Which ever you choose, beanbags or foam furniture, be sure to purchase the type with hidden, cloth-covered zippers that make it easy to remove the cover for washing. Many of the zippers available are safety zippers that stay shut and keep the beans inside.
A child’s room needs open floor space. This is where they will make their pretend world, spreading out their toys, dumping Legos, having tea parties with their stuffy animals and friends. They will arrange and rearrange this world everyday. But making this floor space open and useful can be difficult when the youngest child gets the smallest bedroom. Multipurpose furniture that can change shapes for different needs will be a wise investment for smart parents.
I found a great solution to this space problem with my own children – futons. A futon is a comfortable and lightweight couch for sitting during the day – a place you child and their will sit and chatter, or place you and your child to sit and cuddle while reading a book together. At night, they magically become a comfortable bed, off the floor, for your child’s overnight guests. Kid futons are relatively inexpensive because there is no need to purchase a separate mattress.
Sitting with your child and reading to them has been shown to be one of the best things you can do with your child. This is a quite time, a time for focusing, relaxing, and relating to each other and to the characters you are reading about in the book. This is the time of day for drawing out life’s lessons. Reading out loud to your son or daughter stimulates their imagination, expands their vocabulary, and starts them on a life long journey of reading on their own. The transition to bedtime is much easier from reading than from other activities, especially TV. Tip: leave the TV and computer in family areas where you can monitor what they watch and play, not in the child’s bedroom.
After reading and its time for sleep, the futon couch will unfold into a cozy and comfortable bed. It is much easier for a child to relax and go to sleep after just having had a loving time reading with mom or dad than one who just watched a fast paced TV program. In the morning, the futon bed folds back into a futon couch leaving all that important floor space open and free for your child to build their imaginary worlds during the day.
As your child grows the type of furniture that will be useful for your child will change. Bunk beds or futon bunk beds are great space savers of that precious floor space. Kids can climb on bunk beds, practicing these skills in a safe environment. In pre-teen years, when kids learn to bond with friends outside the family, the sleep-over stage reach it peak, as often as once a weekend. Bunk beds are once again a space saving piece of furniture. And this is the age when kids no longer really want to sleep on the floor. Futon bunk beds combine a single sized bed on the top and couch on the bottom that folds into a double bed when needed. Rising above the world of disarray and clutter (if you have a son), the futon bunk bed is the ultimate space-save for a child’s bedroom. A Bunk bed and especially a futon bunk bed will be a useful and satisfying investment in your children.
Michael Urmann is a contributing author for http://FutonsAndBeanBags.com which carries a variety of kid futons, bunk futons, beanbags and kid foam furniture.
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