My boys are three and a half and 20 months old. We hope to have more kids someday too. So when we were looking for a house last year, we wanted room for our kids to grow. And not just grow- but explore, create, imagine, and enjoy!
My favorite space in our house is a corner in the basement that is set up as an activity center. It has a felt board, chalk board, bulletin board, and little table and chairs. For instructions on how to make the felt board, see
this post at Blissfully Domestic. To see my inspiration for the idea, see
this post at The Artful Parent. Creating the space was a fairly quick weekend
do it yourself project!
We use the bulletin board to show projects that we have finished, hang up each week's Sunday School lesson, and sometimes put up flashcards (here's
a link to our family site showing everything we put on our bulletin board one day).
We use the chalk board for just drawing and "writing." You could also put a dry erase board up, or something magnetic. I just love to use chalk board paint! In the picture above, I have everything ready for learning about the letter Q. During our "lesson," we listed all the words we could think of that started with Q on the chalk board .
Here are some of the fun ways we use the table: #2 likes to climb on it (in fact, right now we have put the chairs up to keep him on the ground!). #1 likes to do
puzzles, paint, work with
lapbooks, play a
counting game, and
match socks!
The felt board has been a lot of fun! Do you ever watch Blue's Clues and notice how the felt frame changes depending on what the episode is about? That was my inspiration for some of the things we do on the felt board. You can see above we learned about
farms,
earth, rockets, and
dinosaurs. The big picture is the
Easter story that he would put in order. I printed clip art of the events, and just glued them to felt. The hardest thing I've done for the felt board is the alphabet. Some of the letters were hard to get just right!
Hope you enjoyed peeking in on my favorite kid space in the house!
We use the bulletin board to show projects that we have finished, hang up each week's Sunday School lesson, and sometimes put up flashcards (here's a link to our family site showing everything we put on our bulletin board one day).
looks like great fun! Your felt pieces are great!
ReplyDeleteI wish we had a room like that for the future!! Guess we'd better move... :)
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! We love our felt board too! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great place to create! Makes me wish for a little more room in our small house!
ReplyDeleteThis is just the thing I'd like to do when we move in a few weeks. Thanks for putting the pictures up and sharing the 'How-to's!
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