What is a Montessori Playroom?
Ten Steps to Creating a Montessori Playroom at Home.
A Montessori playroom is based around the idea that the child is free to choose what to play with (except in Montessori lingo ‘play’ is called ‘work’.)
There’s hundreds of photos of perfectly curated playrooms online, each one more immaculate and tastefully designed that the next. Some promote a Montessori environment, but all make you feel like you are nothing like the kind of parent that has the time, money, space or inclination to create that kind of setting in your home.
These people are the other-mothers that I suspect live solely online, whose primary purpose seems to make me feel a bit unworthy.
Let’s be honest, I’m not one of those people and you’re most likely not either.
My house is tiny, and doesn’t have the wonder of a proper dedicated playroom. We have a child’s bedroom that is currently an unslept-in storage room for toys. The 5 year old sleeps with us because she’s scared of imps and will probably continue to do so ‘til we evict her to a campus dorm at 18.
We have an open plan (tiny) living room-cum- dining room which is what we have resigned ourselves to as the playroom. Our tasteful wall art has been replaced with finger paintings, and our liquor shelf now…
