How To Make Your Child's Room Come Alive This Monsoon

 

Your child loves exploring spaces all the time, but their favourite space in the whole world is their bedroom. It is the place where they sleep, study, dream and play with siblings and friends. It is their special place that encourages creativity and comfort. Now that the monsoon season has started in earnest, you can consider making their bedroom extra special:

#1 Start by sanitising and fogging.

The monsoon season is wet and leaves clothes and walls damp for long. This gives rise to fungal and bacterial growths, which can cause skin and respiratory allergies. Enlist the help of a professional house cleaning agency, and get them to fumigate and sanitise the entire house. Make sure they use child-friendly cleaning materials in your child’s bedroom to prevent respiratory distress or eye and skin itching post-treatment.

#2 Get bright new bedding.

While the monsoon is largely green in the outside world and feels cold and grey when you’re indoors, your child is probably grappling with restricted play time and the lack of colour in the world. If you were thinking of introducing more colour to your child’s bedroom, this is the best season to do it. Consider buying new bedsheets with cushion covers– but no ordinary bedding will do. Get themed bedding that your kid will love. They are probably a fan of the Minions, or Disney Cars, Motu Patlu and even various Disney and Pixar characters. Leading bed and bath linen brands in India have a wide range of themed bedsheets with cushions, bath sheets and comforters designed specially for kids in designs and colours that they love. While you’re buying new bed linen, also invest in colourful new towels to match the bedding and install fancy hooks to hang the wet towels in the room to dry out after a bath. We suggest buying antibacterial bedsheets to protect your child from viral infections during the season.

#3 Try and get in more light.

A child loves a brightly-lit space, especially if their mood is down in the dumps with the grey skies and incessant rain outside. Children are more sensitive to changes in light than adults are, and while some become morose, others will use the extra shadows to concoct their own games. Add more white light to the room with halogen lamps placed above the window frame and keep them switched on during a dismal rainy day to add cheer. Add coloured lamp shades to all artificial light sources so that there are different hues of colour that your child will love! If possible, buy or create a tent for the corner and have a floor lamp inside – your child will love to have their own ‘cave’ to read in and eat snacks while watching their favourite cartoons.

#4 Add different textures to different surfaces.

Children are tactile creatures, and they are drawn to change in textures. They are highly sensitive to things that feel both soft and rough and may life both equally. Make their bedroom more fun by incorporating different textures for them to touch and experience. For example, tack a square of carpet to the wall to serve as a softboard. Add a floor rug near the bed so they will not have to put their feet on a cold floor when they wake. Add a row paper streamer above their bed, or an activity wall where they can daub paint or rub with sandpaper to create their own textural ‘art’. You can also have differential tiling installed on the floor – this will give rise to games like ‘The floor is lava’ or ‘hopscotch’ with friends.