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Bringing Learning to Your Kids Playroom
February 2, 2016
As a child I always wanted to create magic. I wanted to make carnivals in my backyard with whatever we had, pretend the carriage house was our own personal castle and I simply remember just how limitless my imagination was. There is this one memory that sticks out to me, I have no idea exactly how old I was when this memory formed but I remember asking my dad to put a hard top on my Knight Rider car (this is obviously pre power wheels) so that I could drive (petal) the car in the rain, I remember him telling me it couldn’t be done, I remember thinking…well why not? As children our imaginations control our playtime or little worlds, and they alone take us to the most magical places.
I try to remember that limitless imagination when I design rooms, especially when creating children’s rooms and playrooms. My oldest daughter’s room, once it transitioned from nursery, always had a tent of sorts. The tent drove and still drives my husband crazy; it drives me crazy at times. They are large even when small. They take up valuable space in any size room and they become the keeper of junk(in my opinion). But my daughter has always had one because I want her imagination to run wild like mine once did, and like it does now through my girls. We have had camp outs, tea parties, sleepovers, “girls” time and countless doll play dates in her tents…sadly (wink wink) I was replaced as the go to” playmate by my youngest daughter (who is 19 months)…who now “plays” (this will get real interesting when she can form real sentences).
The tents last some time and then like all things they get old, outgrown and replaced BUT they remain a staple in my house and I use them when I design rooms. It’s so amazing to me what a 2 by 2 enclosed space creates in a child’s mind. I have opened/cleaned all of her tents and found books,one of my heels (but never a set), dolls, toy food, REAL food,the jewelry I have been looking for for weeks, blankets….just things that set scenes for their limitless imaginations. I will continue to get annoyed while cleaning; day dreaming of what I could do with that precious floor space but I will leave the tents/castles/teepee’s for as long as they want. Children, as we know, are only small once and I want both my girls to hold on to those limitless imaginations for as long as time permits.
Maybe tonight I will squeeze myself into the now teepee and risk getting a Charlie Horse in the name of reliving my childhood!
-J
