Baby blankets

Children's rugs are an integral part of the interior of the room where boys and girls of different ages live. It is beautiful, comfortable, functional and very practical. The diversity and features of this cozy accessory will be discussed in our article.

At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, soft, warm, fluffy bedspreads called blankets began to enjoy immense popularity. Children's room is a personal space of a baby, where everything should be both practical and pleasant to look at. To make the cot look neat, it can be covered with such a bedcover after sleep.

The plaid appears in the child almost from the first days of life.This thing is multifunctional. At discharge of the child from the hospital, you can use one of the types of blankets: summer or winter, as usual, and transformer. With a little effort and with the help of an almost imperceptible lightning in your hands a great, quilted envelope.

The plaid is a light, beautiful, gentle and heat-saving thing. This thing, if it is soft and thin, you can not even lay out the stroller, as it can be useful on the street at any time. If your baby is already sitting in the stroller, then you can roll the bedspread in a roll and place it under the pillow behind your back, and if there is a sudden change in the weather, you can reach and cover the baby.

Blankets for kids a huge set. Their shape is basically either square or rectangular. Their corners are either sharp rectangular or rounded. They can be warm and light, thick, long-nap (or long-hair), double-sided, quilted, lined, knitted, stitched from solid material or from small patches. Soft and fluffy bedspreads are designed not only for children, but also for adults, so it is often possible to see a bed in the house, which is covered with a beautiful one and a half quilt.

At home there are already several uses of the blanket, you can lay it on a bed or cover a child instead of a blanket, and when he grows up, he begins to sit and walk, then you can lay this warm bedspread on the floor in the nursery.

Mostly on all children's plaids there is an image of a beast or bird, or of an animated hero. And, of course, it will be easier for the mother to teach the child to sleep in her baby cot, where every night either a bunny or an elephant is waiting for him, and perhaps the “Wheelbarrow” came to see if the baby fell asleep. After all, such a bed will seem to the baby a fabulous country.

For a premature baby, a bed with a warm blanket will be a cozy nest. Parents buy rugs for teenagers, as they are often located on the floor. They can make a cape for themselves from a light bedspread or build a whole hut out of one and a half.

Nowadays, patchwork products are considered very fashionable. It seems as if a grandmother sewed a bedcover from a multicolored square for a baby. Beautifully openwork covers or knitted by large weaving, as well as motifs, connected from small squares, crocheted.

It is very important to choose the right size for the child. Parents pay little attention to the size of the product when it is purchased. First, they evaluate the appearance of the plaid, its brightness and beauty. Then look at its quality and composition. Therefore, before you buy such a thing, you need to think about why it will be needed. If in order to cover the child in the crib, it means you first need to measure the size of the mattress.

If the child is newborn, then the blanket will fit with the size of the sides about a meter. They will be able to hide the baby and put it on the floor so that the baby plays on it and it is not cold. The size of such a rug is 75x75 or 75x90 or 90x90 cm.For older children, you can take a blanket 100x120 or 100x140, 160x80 cm. For children of primary school age, you can purchase a blanket of 130x160 or more adults 180x100,150x200 140x205 cm.

The composition of the material of the product can be divided into three groups: natural, artificial and mixed.

The composition of natural products include:

• cotton;
• wool;
• mohair.

Artificial products are made:

• from acrylic;
• microfiber;
• from velsoft;
• from fleece.

Mixed - these are fabrics in which we see natural materials with the addition of artificial fibers.

On the shelves is not lodged goods, which include natural fibers. Products containing cotton yarn are delicate and light and are great for both adults and children. Things made of cotton fiber are very good for skin perception, they absorb water well, but they will not take a lot of time to dry them. They have excellent breathability, but can also protect from the breeze.

In a plaid woven from cotton threads, it is nice to meet the baby on that joyful day when the mother is discharged after birth from the hospital, because such things always look rich.And, most importantly, such a thing does not harm the baby, will not cause an allergic reaction.

Also, light industry offers to our attention plaids from merino wool. In winter and autumn, this thing will wonderfully warm the child. Wool products, just like cotton ones, do not interfere with air penetration, are hygroscopic. The disadvantages of such a product are that they can cause an allergy in a child if there is such a predisposition and it is not very pleasant when the wool touches the naked body. In this case, parents need to carefully use such a product.

A huge range of rugs is made of artificial fibers: fleece, acrylic, velsoft.

Acrylic Covers soft, it is pleasant to touch them, they will not cause an allergy in the baby and, as they say, there is no demolition. Their price relative to products made from other materials is small. In winter, on the street during a walk in a wheelchair or sleigh, such a thing simply does not know its equal.

No less popular for kids fleece bracts. Such products are very beautiful, soft, warm, but if they are used in very cold weather and in winter, they will still be cool.

The disadvantages of some fleece products are the ability to electrify, but since you can use a huge selection of antistatics, this can be prevented.

Many parents prefer to buy their children blankets, which are from mixed fibers, eg:

• cotton and acrylic;
• woolen and polyamide.

Also in the stores are widely represented products of this type, which include silk, bamboo, micromodal. Such plaids have saturated colors, they are warm and perfectly breathable, and synthetic additives make the product durable and light. Despite the low content of synthetics, such a padik is suitable even for a newborn, such a thing always has a high quality rating and does not harm the baby.

Bedspreads are very common now. microfiber. Microfiber is the most fashionable synthetic material, it is pleasant to touch it. It does not cause allergies, light, gentle.

It will also look very nice product from pompons, from “Dolce” yarn, from Aliza soft and fluffy meringue.

Often in the market can be found knitted plaids. They are made of cotton, wool and acrylic yarn. These are soft, warm, comfortable things. These products have a beautiful appearance and hypoallergenic properties. Suitable also for newborns.

In addition, there are many different types of soft bedspreads:

• knitted;
• plush
• from plush Minky;
• from pompon yarn.

Manufacturers offer a huge palette of colors. For newborns it is more soothing, pastel colors: blue, pink, light coffee, light green, white, beige and others. For discharge from the hospital, it is better to use plain, soft plaids, in order to avoid the appearance of allergic reactions in the infant in case of low-quality dyes.

Perhaps the bright colors of the plaid are not very practical in everyday use, but then you will be calm about the psychological and physical condition of your child.After a year, children are given moms and dads to buy bright rugs, with colorful drawings on them, since the baby is interested in everything and he looks at everything with pleasure. For girls, it is mostly red, hot pink, burgundy, yellow, orange, light green. For boys, it is green, gray, blue, brown. Closer to school age, you need to buy a new blanket for your child, here you have to take into account his preferences.

You need to approach the design of your baby's blanket with full responsibility. It is necessary to take into account the preferences of the child, if he has already grown up and will be able to express his opinion. Many kids will be happy if they have a blanket with their favorite cartoon characters, such as:

• "Cars";
• Minions;
• Snow White;
• the heroes of "Madagascar";
• Barbie;
• Superman;
• Luntik;
• Barboskiny;
• the heroine of the cartoon "Cold Heart";
• Mickey Mouse and others.

You can buy a blanket poncho or blanket cloak. Such rugs are mostly released with a hood in the form of the head of an animal (bee Maya, lion, alien and others), as well as on the sides with legs. For children under one year old, it is better to choose products of soothing light tones that will have a calming effect on them.Children who are a little older than a year will be interested in bright, attracting the attention of the veil, especially if they have some kind of colorful pattern.

Often, parents buy a baby blanket to make a crib for them. Then they select the color for the interior of the nursery itself, the color of the walls or the color of the bedside rug.

High school students like more versatile rugs with bright stylistic patterns, shadow patterns, and images of birds and animals. Adolescents should better take the initiative in their hands, so that they choose a rug to their liking according to their desires.

Girls prefer their favorite Barbie to draw their favorite Barbie, or Winx sorceress, Disney cartoon princess, or Masha and the bear, or maybe an owl with big kind eyes or Minnie Mouse with huge bows on her head and against the background of huge peas. Any girl would be glad to have a rug with beautiful flowers or bows, with a border of tulips or a bedspread, which depicts bright red hearts and a cute bunny.

The boys also love cartoons and will not give up the rug with cars from the "Wheelbarrows". Also, the boys suit the blanket, where, against the background of bright green grass, Mickey Mouse plays football with a huge ball or a blanket with the image of Luntik. Plaids that suit both boys and girls are very popular. These are blankets with a bunny or bears, cats or dogs. No less stylish look bedspreads containing abstract patterns.

It is a great pleasure for a child to wrap itself up in such a blanket, as if the kitten embraced him with his fluffy legs. All children love a circus and a plaid with a picture of a funny clown throwing up balls and rings, will bring into the house only a good mood for both the child and his parents. For adolescents, blankets of a more serious color are suitable, for example, brown, dark blue, even black, gray, milky. Of course, the king of flowers is white, but this blanket should be used very carefully in everyday life.

If your child enjoys some kind of sport, then you can give him a blanket with a certain theme.For example, with the image of a snowboarder on a snowboard, cyclist, skater, football player and other athletes. If a child loves nature, you can buy a blanket with a picture of a river and a forest, a hare sitting on the edge or with an autumn theme - maple leaves or a dark blue blanket covered in white snowflakes or with a snowman with a huge carrot instead of a nose.

There is no direct answer to the question which blanket is better to pick up a child. Here it is necessary to take into account many human factors and the financial component of the buyer. Do you want to buy this attribute of the domestic manufacturer or Turkish, Italian or Chinese. Babies, babies, of course, need to take things, which include more natural ingredients. It is necessary to carefully read the composition on the labels so that there are as few as possible various synthetic additives and dyes.

When choosing a blanket for a child, you need to understand in advance why and for what purpose. If they just lay a bed, it is not necessary to take it in huge sizes. If the baby will sleep at night under it, as under a blanket, then it is necessary to take into account the growth of the child, so that it does not happen that the nose is covered and the legs are bare.

Children in a dream often turn over, sometimes they can cover their heads. Therefore, you need to choose a blanket, which consists of fibers from natural fabrics, such as cotton. Such a pledik, as they say "will breathe." And even if the baby is covered in a dream with his head, then such a blanket will let the air through.

In the summer, a blanket made of cotton, bikes or fleece is good for a walk. In winter, irreplaceable blanket of acrylic. They can wrap the child, sitting in a sled, and in a stroller. Of course, it is not as pleasant to the body as fleece, but it will save from the cold wind.

How to tie a blanket for a baby, see the next video.