Re: Playrooms | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Kay Argyle (argylemines.utah.edu) | |
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:13:01 -0600 (MDT) |
I thought surely this message would generate a fair amount of advice, & not being a parent I wouldn't reply, but since there's been nothing (unless you got some private replies) .... > They all fit into a smallish room with bean > bags, a small table and two chairs, and an adult-size table with two > chairs. I would love any feedback. > Amy It's been my observation that kids prefer to play on the floor. That sounds like a lot of furniture for a "smallish" room, especially one in which you want a lot of open floor space. Our common house kids room is "organized" by the toys (all cast offs, and not very enticing, in my viewpoint) being tossed into plastic bins on shelves. A donated air hockey table was recently moved there on an experimental basis; it was previously in a room the kids had to ask an adult to unlock. If it gets trashed in the kids room, it will be removed (hopefully *not* back to the previous room, which is supposed to house a potter's wheel). The flooring is level-loop carpet. There are hinged fold-down table tops along one wall, about knee high, below the line of windows, so they get good light. One wall is painted with blackboard paint from knee level to above head height, framed with molding to make it look tidy. Speaking of which -- I wish our much-used mailroom message board was a chalkboard instead of a whiteboard. We go to trouble & expense to recycle, but the bigger part of being green is choosing your products & practices to reduce waste in the first place. Chalk is about as environmentally neutral as a product can be. The resource (a type of limestone) is used with minimal processing. The product is nonstaining, generates only nontoxic dust (calcium carbonate -- toss it in the compost bucket), leaving nothing else to dispose of, and can be used by children without supervision. In comparison, whiteboard markers use more resources to manufacture, cost more, emit VOCs (a health hazard for those of us with touchy bronchial tubes, and the biggest reason I dislike them), stain wallpaper or other surfaces, require supervision of children (to make sure they're recapped, if nothing else), and have to be disposed of when they dry up. Unless they're recyclable, which even if true doesn't occur much in practice, they'll spend eternity taking up room in a landfill. Ugh all around. Crawling down off the soapbox, Kay Wasatch Commons Salt Lake City argyle [at] mines.utah.edu _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
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