At their daycare and preschool, where they went from 24 months to practically age 5, my children were expected to nap on mats that were offered by the school. No, they didn’t look like the one imagined above. probably something like this Kindermat.
Parents supplied a sheet and a blanket, and our daycare provider, god bless her, washed them each week. At the daycare Heather’s kids attended, after they graduated from crib napping, they brought their own sleeping bags, which parents had to bring home each Friday to wash for Monday morning.
Is a nap mat a thing your child needs?
I saw this one at a baby expo and thought it was completely adorable.
It rolls up and closes with Velcro strips that kids can handle. It’s completely lightweight. The soft blanket is attached to the side of the base layer, so it’s just one piece to keep track of. very cute, Elonka Nichole. (See her Etsy shop here.)
After seeing this, I felt like I could make something like it, and remembered having pinned a nap mat made from three or four store-bought pillowcases sewn together.
If you are crafty, Prudent Baby, provides an incredible step-by-step tutorial for making a similar mat with beautiful finishes. This is hers:
Sadly, it has shown impossible to find the original source of this pillowcase idea. but for those of us who can only sew a straight line, it might be worth trying. then again, it requires 4 or 5 pillows, so it might be a better thing to bust out on a rainy fort-building day.
What do you use for this napping-on-the-floor purpose? Or are you shaking your head, thinking, no freaking way my kid would work out down for a nap on a floor?