Creating a space for my son to call his own

It's the first full day of Summer vacation for us since I left work. So far , I have managed to create a personal space for Monsier Nathaniel. I have been slowing piecing together how I would create this space in my head and on Sunday I put the plans into action. I would use items that we already had around the house because they had to be things that were familiar to him. Autism is funny like that, you present something new and it can backfire. We are talking chaos!

Materials used:

• 1 bean bag chair
• 1 yoga mat for texture
• 1  bright colorful kids carpet picked up at  a garage sale
• 1 rack of plastic baskets that connect together. 
• a handful of mismatched socks whose mates have ran away
• a few of his stuffed animals from his toybox
• his favorite balls (textured, smooth, etc)
• a few of his books

I decided on a corner of the living room so that he could be in the same room with me  if I busy on my computer,doing house work, etc. He has these moments where he needs to know I am near him at times. There are times when he just wants to be alone. Although the kid will chase me into bathroom if I disappear for too long. Writing this post though? It took me 2 days to get it posted because every 10 minutes he brought me his tablet and did not "agree" with the episode of Blue's Clues that Amazon Prime was offering.

This new "nook" has allowed him his own corner where he can sit and watch his tablet or play with toys that he loves. He also uses socks for stimming. I am not going to get into the debate about stimming because in our house we do what makes him happy. Happy kid =Sane parents. It works.

I did not spend anything on this project because it involved recycling things we just had laying around. I am notorious for reusing things and I can be extremely frugal. If I can avoid spending money, I usually do.  For example , the yoga mat. We attended a family event where they were giving a free yoga mat to every participant.

This was fun to make and something I had started planning out in my head a few weeks before I knew I would be stay home with the kids full-time.