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Curating a functional playroom to encorage imaginative & open-play
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items Playrooms can be a huge value add for a vacation rental, but they can also add stress if furnished with too many messy toys. Focusing on open-ended play is a great way to ensure that kids will remain busy, while having less toys in the space - hopefu...
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Structures / Furniture / Storage
Outdoor
Reading Nook
Toys / Activities
These stepping stones are so easy to store. My kids love stacking them to created different heights.
6 Pieces Rainbow Stepping Stones Set
A favorite playroom toy!
Play & Explore rocket
The cutest wooden tea set. Super durable and perfect to combine with a play kitchen.
Kind King Wooden Play Tea Set for Little Girls
This functional toy cash register with play money is perfect for a play space that has a play kitchen. It encourages pretend play and helps familiarize kids with money.
LR Pretend & Play Calculator Cash Register
These cars are perfect for little hands
Wooden Toy Cars
This play food set is our favorite. The variety is great and the food holds up well. The pieces are easy to clean and there is a good variety of healthy foods included.
Pretend Food Set
These cars are great for little ones! They can be used on multiple sufaces and the diversity of cars ensures that everyone will be happy playing with them!
Pull back cars
You can't go wrong with the quality of this fort building set. It's easy enough for kids to put together & take apart, but strong enough to hold blankets and other accessories on top. We love spending time building this and also love how easy it ...
Fort Building Kit
This is another great open-ended toy that encourages imagination. When combined with people or animals, kids will spend hours creating different configurations. We love this toy so much!!
Treehouse Imagination Builders
This is our favorite magnetic tile set!! It pairs so well with the magnet wall & magnetic gears. We love that it comes with train components too.
Magnetic Tiles
Magnet gears are a fun way to add a little more variety to a magnet wall setup. We are super happy with this brand & the quality! The magnets are strong and do well on a magnet wall or fridge.
Lakeshore Turn & Learn Magnetic Gears
This magnetic roller coaster encourages kids to problem solve as they build new and more complex courses. A favorite item in our house! Perfect for fridges, white boards, or magnet walls.
Engineer-A-Coaster
Perfect for toddler exploration and littles who like to climb!
Paw Patrol Jungle Gym Play Structure Bean Bags
Structures / Furniture / Storage
2 trofast units placed back to back provides the perfect train table surface WITH super functional storage underneath. This is great for smaller play spaces with limited storage options!
IKEA TROFAST
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Love all of the activities this offers!! Really helps to make a smaller play space more fun! It can be configured in a right angle or straight & is held in place by tension.
Kids Indoor Home Playground/Gym
Perfect gym mat for under a climbing structure. Love that the velcro allows it to secure to carpet.
BalanceFrom 120x48 High Density Folding Mat
Super easy to install rock climbing holds, and I love that we can move them around or change up the holds/layout.
Rock Climbing Holds
Colorful monkey bars pair perfectly with a rock climbing wall! They can be installed into the studs, or into plywood that's attached to the studs.
Monkey Bars
These monkey bars add a fun ninja twist to any playroom and only require one stud to hang them
Hanging Monkey Bars
This swing is such a fun addition. It offers a quiet hideaway, while also serving as a fun activity to keep little ones busy.
Sensory Swing
This play kitchen is such a great addition to any open play space. I love how functional the storage is, and I've seen them accessorized in so many different ways.
Play kitchen
Attach with liquid nails and add a small wooden frame to create an adorable magnet wall!! Perfect for magnet tiles, gears, or roller coasters.
Magnet Wall Sheet Metal
This bookshelf, grocery-bin combo is the perfect storage solution for any playroom. We love keeping larger items like stuffed animals & balls in the bins, with our favorite books on top.
Kids Catch-All White Multi-Cubby 35 in. Toy Organizer
Outdoor
One of our favorite and most used toys is the sandbox diggers! Kids love to move these around the yard and spend hours looking for shells in the sand with them.
Sandbox Digger
Reading Nook
These carpet squares were super easy to install. We didn't have any issues trimming them and love how easy they are to replace, if something happens to one of them. They made the space very cozy while keeping it aesthetically pleasing too.
Carpet Squares
We used heavy duty 3M tape to install these lights and love how sturdy they are. You can change the colors of them by touching them or using the remote. There are multiple color changing settings, and you can control how bright the light is - making ...
Touch Sensor Lights
The quality of this wall paper is amazing. I love that you can choose the application style. It was super easy to install and makes the space look so much more inviting.
Sunshine and Clouds Wallpaper | Spoonflower
We've used this brand of wallpaper multiple times in our own home and our vacation rentals. It holds up so well and is super easy to apply. I love how well it blends with our space.
Ecru Watercolour painted dots Peel & Stick Wallpaper