How to set up a Playroom for your Shores 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.

Bring in a Theme

Create a whole new world in your child’s playroom, by theming it with their favourite interest. Paw Patrol? Moana? Aladdin? Mickey Mouse? Dinosaurs? Whatever your child loves, or whatever inspiration you choose — consider enveloping the space in an alternate universe. Transform the playroom into a magical world.

Create multiple moods

Whether you have more than one child or not, consider creating multiple moods in your child’s playroom; is there somewhere they can retreat, rest, unplug, or unwind? And is there somewhere they can get active, play dress up, make crafts, or make music? Consider how your child might use the space based on their varied interest, consider an area where they can be an astronout, or a famous artist, or a loving parent with babies, or a magical wizard. Consider the character they might want to be, rather than just the activity they might want to do.

Bring in Dress Up

Bring in fun dress up clothes so your child can transform into any character or world their heart desires. Whether you collect halloween costumes of animals and famous characters, or seek out creative hand-me-downs or thrifted items, gather everything into a trunk or armoir and make it accessible to your child.

Bring in a Playhouse

If your space can accommodate a tiny space within it, this can be really valuable to your Shores child. If they can enter a tiny house within the playroom, or even have access to a toy or doll house with a little world in it, this will be great at helping them develop their perspective. Entering a new world can be very regulating for them. Don’t be surprised if they retreat to their playhouse when they need a moment!

Get creative with water

Whether you have a water activity table in the center of the room, a giant fish tank with Bob, Brandy and Jelly Bean swimming inside of it, or enjoy a large painting of a giant blue and white ocean, bring the water element into the playroom. Get your Shores kid aware of their connection to water by surrounding them with positive water imagery.

Bring them in on clean up

If the playroom gets messy, encourage your Shores kid to participate in the transformational powers of a clean up! Clean ups are great ways for Shores kids to reset their systems, and turning tidying into a playful, enjoyable or magical ritual can help instill nourishing practices well into adulthood.

Consider modular furniture

When your furniture is modular, you can quickly switch it up to accommodate play, a fresh seasonal layout, or an impromptu fort. Making the space work for you and your family is essential, keeping in mind your Shores child loves to get lost in another world sometimes. The more multi-purpose and dynamic their playroom is — the better,