Have you ever noticed thick, heavy, and cushioned floor mats on the floor of a gym or children’s play area? Those floor mats not only protect the floor from all the dirt carried by the shoes, wear and tear while walking, or scratches from the movement of equipment or furniture but they also provide a very good base and cushion to the feet of the people walking on that surface.
If children are playing or people are working out on hard concrete surfaces then it can have a bad impact on their joints, muscles, and ligaments. Soft play and workout surface plays an important role in reducing any kind of stress and strain on the people using. So it is a simple yet very clever invention, use of which is not limited to play areas and gyms but can have extended use in homes with small children and toddlers.
The benefits of investing in good quality floor mats especially when you have kids at home are discussed below.
- The kitchen, living room, garage, laundry room, and children’s room are the places in the house where maximum human and material traffic is there. There are high chances of the floor getting damaged, stained, and scratched if it is not protected by a good quality kid’s floor mat. But if you invest in a good quality thick and cushioned floor mat then whether you move furniture or your little budding artist does coloring sitting on the floor, the floor will not get scratched or stained by any activity. If you use the thick foam mat in the kitchen then even if the crockery falls over the floor accidentally, it will not get broken, and stay safe.
- Foamed floor mats are safe for kids. The floor mats we see in the soft play area of kids are especially used to prevent any kind of physical injury to the kids. We can invest in similar high-quality foamed floor mats for use in kids’ bedrooms and living rooms and offer a play-safe area to the kids. Such floor mats are made of good quality foam with a thickness of 1 inch or more. They are perfect shock absorbers and will protect your kids even when they run over them or fall while running. If you have a toddler who crawls around the house, then nothing can be better than good-quality foam mats. Such kid’s floor mats are BPA-free and are completely safe for kids. Apart from that, they offer a cushion to the still-developing knees of your toddler.
- Good quality kid’s floor mats not only have safety features but also have high aesthetic value. When you decide to buy a floor mat for the play area for your children, apart from the safety aspect you also look at the aesthetic aspects. These floor mats usually come in bright colors and beautiful designs. The floor mats attract the children and can be quite handy in encouraging them to play over them. In a way, bright and beautiful floor mats will keep the kids engaged over them and kids will not explore other areas in the house where they can get hurt.
- Another benefit of getting high-quality foam mats is their educational value. Such floor mats usually are interlocking floor mats posing to be mini jig saw puzzles for the kids. They have Hindi and English alphabet written over it, rhymes, cartoons, fruits, vegetables, animals, birds, numbers, vehicles, and other such prints over it. They can be very good means, to begin with, early childhood education of the child at home. These play mats pose to be fun learning equipment for the kids. So when you are letting your child play on such play mats you can not only be relaxed about safety but you are giving them the opportunity to learn while they are busy playing and having fun on the play mat.
- If you decide to invest in a good quality interlocking play mat then you will get the liberty to decide the dimensions of the mat. You can join as much mat as required by you and extend or reduce it as per the requirement in the future. They are made from good quality foam, are less slippery, and usually last for a year or more. Apart from that, they are very easy to maintain. Unlike expensive carpets you get in the market, you don’t need special vacuuming or dry cleaning to clean these mats. You can easily clean them with a simple wipe of a wet cloth. Even if your toddler has scribbled the entire mat with a crayon, you can easily clean it by wiping it with a wet cloth.
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