Play with Science

This month's tip focusses on ways to create a fun space for your child to explore and learn in, using Harlequin's new range of 'All About Me' wallpapers and fabrics. Geometry, abacuses, robots, stripes and spots all come together to create an eclectic style to provoke your child's imagination. A colourful clash of lime green, orange, red and blue, offset with neutral tones creates an exciting palette to work with.

Harequin - Reggie Robot fabric

Harlequin - Abacus wallpaper

For a bright room that is sure to make your child the envy of all his friends, try a pair of eyelet curtains in Harlequin's Reggie Robot fabric. Play a bedtime game of 'how many orange Reggie Robots can you spot?' Combine this with a feature wall of Harlequin's Abacus wallpaper to continue the counting theme! If the room is quite small and easily overpowered, cover storage boxes, magazine files and notebooks in the patterned paper instead. Why not continue the science theme with measuring beakers on the windowsill planted with cress? Keep floors and furniture plain and simple to allow enough room to play.

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Personalise it!

Add brightly coloured door knobs to continue the colour theme throughout, and for an extra wow factor, paint a large robot friend for Reggie, using masking tape to block square shapes to paint within.

Experiment with:

• Door frames - paint the frame in one of the fabric's accent colours, or for a less permanent splash of colour, use Japaense Washi Tape to frame the door.
• Adding decorative wooden toys such as abacuses and skittles (which might even tempt them away from the computer games!)