Safety

Anything in a child’s room will be touched, moved and, with toddlers, possibly tasted. So the rules here are simple: nothing glass at any height (kids climb), no real flames, things on the wall hang from damage-free strips, and anything on the dresser sits well back from the edge. Within that, let it be their room. If your four-year-old wants everything red plus dinosaurs, that’s the color scheme. A tree of their own A felt tree. A 3-foot felt tree (on Amazon) with stick-on felt ornaments is probably the best thing you can buy for a kid’s room in December. They’ll rearrange it every day, which is the point. Hang it at their eye level, not yours. It folds into a drawer afterward. ...