Design Your Living Room with Your Little Interior Designer

Let Your Children Design Your Living Room While Exploring Interior Design

Are you ready for Design Thinking activity? This week, it’s the design your living room with your little interior designer.

How to Play

In this activity, your child will become an interior designer to prototype for living room environment and rearrange furniture. It is called, design your living room with your interior designer. They will draw out windows, doors, chair and then brainstorm for rearranging furniture.

Step 1: Let your children interview with you

Before making decisions how to rearrange furniture at living room, let your children interview with you.

Let them ask some questions.

Encourage them to have a back and forth conversations while replying them.

If your children struggled to come up with questions on their own. So you should feed them some of the questions and then answer them.

Step 2: Draw blueprints

When the interview is over, time to draw out the blueprints. Encourage your children to put their ideas into action while drawing.

Encourage them ask random questions as well while drawing the living room on the paper or cardboard.

Make sure that they draw each furniture in the living room such as sofa, chair, and coffee tables.

Step 3: Prototyping

Prototyping brings the back and forth conversation on the blueprint while drawing.

Explain symbols of construction, including a fixed window, horizontal window, and door based on your living room.

Let your child prototype by a piece of paper or cardboard to rearrange your furniture the most efficient way to fit based on space and area.

Encourage them to ask you questions like Interior Designers to see the living room from your point of view.

Step 4: Testing and debriefing

After prototyping, it is time to test whether algorithms work or not.

Let your children physically interact with furniture to rearrange based on the paper prototype that they designed.