Silk Flowers and Decorating are Child’s Play

Foster Creativity and Self-Satisfaction in Kids with Interior Decorating

Feel like you never have time to clean and decorate your home the way that you wish? Like entertaining the kids is a full time job, leaving not one surplus minute for attention to the things that used to matter?

Why not combine two of your favorite things - your home and children - to accomplish a feat from which all will benefit?


A Home Economics Lesson, at Home

Teach children about the value of a clean home. Allow them to dust low surfaces or to run the vacuum cleaner. When they help to clean it, they’re less likely to mess it up.

Tackle interior decorating one room at a time, employing your kids’ opinions in rearranging items, or in adding new ones. Rearrange stems in silk flower arrangements together, emphasizing the harmony of complementary colors. Use the experience as an opportunity to talk about flower varieties, flower components (petals, stamen), and to discuss favorite shapes and colors.

When it’s time to purchase new items for your home, involve your child in the decision-making. Ask for opinions on color and design. You might be surprised at just how astute a child’s sense of design can be. You don’t have to entertain every one of their suggestions, but even one purchase that you can both agree upon will catapult them to the top of their own decorating world. When your child feels needed and involved on a shopping trip, they’re less likely to misbehave. They’re also less likely to ask for other items outside the purpose of the trip, because they’ll feel like they’ve benefited from the purchase for your home. Who couldn’t use less drama at the mall?


Purchase Silk Flowers Online

The latest generation can run circles around their parents when it comes to computers and the internet. Take advantage of that innate ability by buying silk flowers online . Discuss the economic sense of silk flowers (their reusability, versatility, and low-maintenance qualities). Browse through the varieties and colors together. Brainstorm to double-up on creative ideas. Conduct a botany lesson, while exploring the many types of flowers, in silk. Find ways to combine the birth flowers (or favorite flowers) of all family members into an eye-pleasing arrangement of silk flowers.

When your package of silk flowers arrives, your children will race to be the first one to open the box. No matter your choices, all of you will remember the day that you created a table centerpiece, or a front door wreath, or a container of hanging silk flowers as a family.


A Child’s Very Own Bedroom or Bathroom

A child’s bedroom or bathroom should be a place that is uniquely theirs - designed so that when they enter, they feel that they are at home with themselves.

You don’t have to give up control completely. Compromise. Your child will usually agree to your choosing of the curtains, paint, or carpet, if they’re permitted to accessorize the room to their liking.

Frame their artwork to adorn the walls. Work together to build a shelf to house trophies, certificates of achievement, and sports pictures. Together, assemble a collage of your child’s baby pictures and display it. Teach your child to knit or crochet, to latch hook or weave, and use his or her creations to make the bedroom a unique creation.

Shop together for silk flowers and plants online. Help your child to arrange them in a vase, to make a wreath or other wall-hanging, or to create garlands for curtain tie-backs or valances. Seasonal silk flower arrangements are also fun, and a good way for kids to welcome the change of seasons and holidays into their own space.

Give your child the freedom to express themselves in their own space, and their creativity will flow freely in other areas.


Interior Decorating for Development and Discovery

Involve your children in the decorating and redecorating of your home. They’ll feel ownership in their home. They’ll feel pride in their creations. And, most importantly, they’ll make memories with you that will transcend their childhood years.

As a final touch to all of your group-effort decorating, silk flowers and plants, in eye-catching arrangements, teach your child about good taste and good economics - with design that flawlessly imitates nature. So have fun. Enjoy your children. Enjoy your home. Together.

by Leigh LaCava - May, 2009

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