How much space does a coloring corner need?

A tray and a shelf. The thing that makes a corner work is not floor area, it is that the supplies are visible and reachable without asking an adult. A rotating caddy on a kitchen table counts.

Wherever you already are. A beautiful corner in an empty room gets used once. A boring tray on the kitchen table gets used every day, because children make things next to people.

How do I stop it becoming a mess?

One container per kind of thing, and a rule that the table is cleared before dinner, not before the child is finished. Tidying mid-page is how a corner becomes somewhere nobody starts anything.

What should I not buy?

Anything that needs an adult to open, anything with a lid a child cannot manage alone, and a sixty-four crayon box when two twenty-fours would serve better.

How to Set Up a Kids’ Coloring Corner in a Small Home

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