How to make a play mat is the lesson of the mean solar day!

Play mats are a wonderful addition to the play room. They tin be custom designed past topic or favorite play toy and even be reversible or double sided.  Kids Activities Blog is excited to welcome Becky from Patchwork Posse who is here to share how to make a play mat!

how to make a play mat

Play mat themes can range from princess, outer space to roads, islands and pirates or whatever theme your little kiddos enjoy.  Play mats are piece of cake to store in the toy room, fold upward in the car for an emergency play or take to the park for a picnic.

How to Make a Play Mat

Play mat construction is simple with just a few sewing machine stitches and it will exist ready for play.  The fun role of making these is including your kiddos in the blueprint procedure. Get the kids to tell yous what kind of layout they would like, pick out the fabric together and fifty-fifty how many islands, moons, or castles to add.  They can even help with the cutting and placement of the pieces on the play mat.

The background of the play mat is pretty important.  Dig around the fabric store and you will find the perfect theme whether it be water, infinite or glow in the night.

To construct a play mat, you volition demand:

  • 1 yard of theme choice 36″ 10 42″ designer cloth with weight
  • Embellishments
  • A heavier weight of fabric to become in between the theme fabric .

The piece of designer weight will give the play mat some weight.  If y'all are wanting to make information technology double sided, fold the material in half,  sew together on all your embellishments to the backgrounds and then place the heavier fabric in between. Terminate by sewing around the material.

DIY play mats

For the embellishments, wool felt or acrylic felt is the best and easiest to utilise for this project.  This material keeps its shape, the edges won't ravel, and it is super cheap to purchase with a variety of colors.  The key is to keep those shapes super elementary.  Yous can easily print off coloring pages to use as traceable shape templates {free printable pattern} or draw your own.

This is a super piece of cake project so endeavor non to over think the it!  A tree tin can be a few leaves with a rectangular shape for the trunk.  No need to become  fancy equally  simpler designs  works best.  Include the kids as they have wonderful imaginations and tin can have fun with simple ideas.  This simple construction will aid keep the finished project durable as it will get used a lot and washed a lot! So don't go over board.

My boys love to play with LEGOS and their constructed LEGO ships were perfect to play on an outerspace play mat.  Their second favorite is a pirate play mat which included the use of ships, dudes, and some gilded coins. A map could exist made to lead them to the treasure for extra fun.

Not simply is this a fun project to create with and for your kids, information technology makes a wonder gift thought. If it is a gift, don't forget to include a few play accessories to make it a consummate play kit.

Becky blogs at Patchwork Posse. She is the mom of 4 and homeschools part time. Becky is a very talented quilter and design designer who loves plushies, dolls and just about anything that is fabricated with cloth.  Please follow Patchwork Posse on FB!

Don't forget to get your free printable play mat pattern from Becky!

Kids Activities Weblog is Holly'southward blogging home.

She is the co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! and The 101 Coolest Simple Scientific discipline Experiments.

She is the mom of three boys ages 13, 15 & 17 who partially homeschools. She believes that y'all shouldn't have to buy stuff to have fun when there is a kitchen junk drawer full of possibilities.