if you have the foam playmats

nikinikinine · May 2011

did you get them to protect your floors/carpets from your kids or your kids from your floors?

Our living room area rug is getting destroyed by the twinfants. I just shampooed it for the second time in four months. I'm either going to roll it up and call it a day or get these mats to hopefully avoid destroying the carpet.

Do they help?

cocojack10 · May 2011

I got them to set up a play area for them on our tile or wood floors, but for how, I have a few on our area rug to not lay them on the rug (even though clean, but JIC).

AlishaMay · May 2011

I got ours to protect the girls from the floor (hardwood). They love taking it apart more than anything, so I'm not sure if that will help in your situation.

sescms2004 · May 2011

We have berber carpet in the home we are renting and it is only a few years old and already matted down and not soft at all. Our living room is the main play area for the babies, so we took out the coffee table, end table, etc. and put down foam mats. We got ours at Sam's Club for super cheap (took 2 packs to cover most of the floor). We love them and they've been great for the babies as they are learning to pull up and don't always land on their butts. They are super easy to clean spit up/puke from, too - just wipe clean. I wipe them down with Babyganics cleaning spray once a week or so, too. As an added plus, DH and I use them as workout mats for doing P90x in the mornings (without shoes). I've resigned myself to having a daycare-looking living room for the next year or two. Not like we're doing a lot of entertaining anyway

MrsLnt · May 2011

I put them on our wood in the living room to protect the babies from the floors. I have a play area set up between the coffee table and the TV.

I'd had an area rug under the coffee table but it was old and looking gross before the babies were here. I pulled it up because I felt like it was holding too much dust in the room. It was a thin rug so it offered no protection for little noggins. And it was just close enough to the play area that it caught barf.

With hard floors and babies that are starting to sit up, the foam mats are a necessity. We got a set of 8 giant tiles from Sam's for $20.

jsw555 · May 2011

Have you considered the indoor/ outdoor rugs? Dash and Albert have some nice patterns.

nikinikinine · May 2011

jsw555:
Have you considered the indoor/ outdoor rugs? Dash and Albert have some nice patterns.

I said this to DH last night and he looked at me and said "the last thing I'm buying you is another rug" LMAO. It's a long story, but it took us several months and a 3 hour car trip to get one of the rugs in our house...

We're finishing the basement right now and that will become a play area for the kids, so this living room thing is temporary. I'm trying to decide if I should get the mats for the carpet down there (start with them upstairs and move them downstairs when the basement is finished) or just throw down an indoor/outdoor rug like you suggested.

ericamaiaWed243842 · May 2011

Go for the mats, they can be found for very cheap (Amazon) and are so much easier to clean up. Mine are mobile and spitting up at the most random times/places, I love being able to just wipe and go. I seriously do everything on the mats...diaper changes, tandem boppy feeding, playtime...I have a container of cleaning wipes nearby to swipe over the mats if necessary.

When you move down to the basement, mats are a simple move. For some reason my LO's find that they are the best chew toy during teething. I decided to try and see what it would take to bite a chunk off...my set seems darn near indestructable.

pea-kay · May 2011

We have all wood floors, so ours are definitely to protect the kids from the floors.

But the bonus is that the floors in their room (which used to be the playroom) have fared well.

busybea · May 2011

I have them to protect the boys from our tile floors. I went cheap though and did not buy the 1x1 tiles with letters and numbers. Too many of my GF's complained that their LO's were taking them apart. Instead I opted for the large colorful 2x2 sold at Kmart and Walmart. They still come in red, blue, yellow and green colors but are larger and I don't have to worry about finding foam letters/numbers all over the place....cheaper too!

GSwans · May 2011

If you have hardwood and area rugs (we do as well) the foam mats are a MUST for when they get mobile. We have had so many head bumps, faceplants, etc. Without those mats, we would have had waaaaay more worries.

srh08.05.06 · May 2011

We got the foam playmats to protect the kids from the hardwood floors. I realize now they also help to protect our floors from the kids We have a fairly newer house and they are always walking/crawling around with toys and dropping them on the ground. So the mat is kind of protecting them and the floor in the playroom. If you decide to get the foam playmats, I highly recommend this one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003SPA1K8

I've gotten a lot of compliments on how thick it is and the girls never pull them apart.

srh08.05.06 · May 2011

Sorry, duplicate post..

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