Animal Print Rugs

"Children Love Their Animal Themed Bedrooms..."

Not all children's educational rugs need to have the alphabet or numbers on them.

...........A rug does not need to have  to stimulate a child's imagination and creativity. Children are naturally drawn to animals.

Animal print rugs can be just as educational or stimulating as a schoolroom style rug.   Kid's animal print rugs can have a dual emotional effect.

It there is a monster under the bed, well, there is also a lion on the floor.  Children do not see things in the logical and rational sense we do.  No adult would think they could go down the drain, but many two year olds believe this is a real threat. 

In the same manner, a two year old can conceivably believe the lion on the rug they helped pick out is big enough to keep the monsters out from under the bed.

The child's age and temperament decide what type of design is on the rug.  An adventurous and logical child may choose a kid's bear rug with a Kodiak or a brown bear on it. 

A young child with an active imagination will be better suited to a kids bear rug with an animated character on it.  The colors are important too. 

Younger children should have animal print rugs with bright yellow and other primary colored animals.  The background can be bright shapes, or abstract solids. 

Parents of very young children and toddlers should look for animal print area rugs with large eyes that stare out of the animals face.  A toddler will respond to a happy face, and large black or bold colored eyes. 

They are too young to recognize the animal, and their emotions are underdeveloped enough that they just might find the concept of a 'real' looking animal in their room too traumatic. The important thing to remember is that if a child sees something, it is real.

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That is why parents use decorations with large eyes and smiles in a toddler's room.  The smile is real. It does not matter whether the smile is on a kids bear rug, or a penguin, or an alligator - it is a smile and that is all that counts. 

On the other hand, older children will find animal print area rugs that are not the real color as immature, and maybe even a little disturbing.  It is important to remember that a child will grow at their own psychological and emotional rate. 

It is impossible to convince a child that there is no monster under the bed.  Even if you look carefully look under the bed it is hard to dispel the child's fear.   

It may also be impossible to convince a child that the bear or lion on their rug is not capable of chasing the monster away.

That is why animal print rugs for the floor or the walls, or animal print area rugs on a child's floor instead of a wall-to-wall should be purchased for the child, at their current intellectual stage.

Do not try to force the child to adapt to something just because the rug 'needs to last.' And, don't expect a child to be content with something they have grown out of. 

This undoes any educational or stimulating benefit the kid's bear rug or other animal print rug could have offered the child.

And now for some kids room decorating tips....

Put Some Fun In Your Kid's Rugs,
       Patricia Taylor

Animal print rugs