Reading Area For Toddlers

A reading area for toddlers may be the best and essential part of their room. It’s best to encourage our children to love reading at an early age. Reading books is the best way to learn things. The reading area doesn’t have to be perfect or very nice. The most important is that it is accessible any time your child wants to read. They can reach the books easily, sit down, and read.

I decided to paint this furniture in white, used to be a standing bookcase. Lie it down on the floor and arranged books there. Making it a nice bookcase for Rianna’s reading area. Although she is not interested in reading storybooks, I am glad she appreciated illustration and any picture books. She has many small storybooks, but she is more interested in eating book edges rather than reading. No joke! At almost three years old now, it seems that she still has itchy teeth and gums and loves to eat paper.

However, she loves books with pictures of many things such as fruits, vegetables, animals, etc. I like it because I can teach her what those things about, what’s their name and colors. If I ask her, “where is an apple” she would point out the apple picture in the book and says, “Omena”, apple in Finnish. Toddlers get bored easily, but it’s nice to do this at least once a day. We have to make sure that books are easy for them to reach.

All the books from the bottom left are old books from her elder siblings. I decided to display them as well rather than hide them in the closet. We do not buy Rianna too many books. We believe in the less the better. Trying not to overwhelm her, I only buy books that I think she would really use and love. Because who read books that much a day? As I have said earlier, Rianna doesn’t like to listen to storytelling. I don’t know why. However, she is interested to learn in other ways. She is still two, who knows time will come she will ask me to read her storybooks and get fascinated with storytelling. But right now I love teaching her through illustration books.

I often rearrange this room though, but right now this is how her reading area looks like.