
The 12 best ideas for the dark season
The 12 best ideas for the dark season
Autumn not only brings cooler temperatures, but also cosiness. As the days get shorter, it is all the more important to make your home cosy - especially in the children's room, where a feel-good atmosphere and a sense of security are particularly important in autumn. In addition, the opportunity to play outside often falls through. With a few simple IKEA hacks and craft ideas, you'll be ready for autumn and can get your children's room ready for the dark season in no time at all. It's not just about cosiness, but also about creating space for creativity and play when outdoor activities become more difficult. With our IKEA ideas, it's guaranteed to be cosy - even on the greyest of days!
Playtime fun in autumn weather
We've collected a few ideas for you that will keep the children's room from getting boring even on rainy days!

1. Pure cosiness in the KURA snuggle and reading corner
When the days get darker and colder again, we all want a cosy place to retreat to. With this IKEA upgrade, you can conjure up a wonderfully cosy snuggle corner for your little ones under the KURA bunk bed. Simply attach our curtains for the KURA bed and decorate and personalise to your heart's content!
2. Book storage in the children's room
One of the favourite activities in bad weather is probably reading. But the little ones' books have to be stored somewhere. We have some IKEA hacks for you on how to cleverly store the often oversized books at a child-friendly height. With a book rail on the KURA bed, you can turn your cosy corner into a wonderful reading corner. We'll also show you how to build a practical mobile book box from an EKET shelf and how you can drape books on picture rails like little works of art.

3. Play kitchen: Autumn time is baking time
When the temperatures drop outside, it's time for cosy afternoons in the kitchen. If the little ones can't yet help in the big kitchen, they can get creative and "help bake" at play kitchen.
Especially nice: you can upgrade the kitchen with our autumnal adhesive foils and conjure up an autumnal ambience in your home. Autumn also offers new ideas for "cooking" in the play kitchen: Perhaps you can invent a new recipe with the chestnuts you have collected yourself? In the cold season, the DUKTIG kitchen becomes a versatile favourite place where the little ones can let their imagination run wild.

4. Mud kitchen dIY hack for autumn weather
Autumn weather and mud simply belong together. With this IKEA hack, you can build your very own mud kitchenfor the garden or balcony. All you need are KNAGGLIG boxes and TROFAST boxes from IKEA, as well as our adhesive foils. At mud kitchen, the kids can "cook" to their heart's content - with sand, water, leaves and chestnuts.
And if the weather gets a little too autumnal, you can simply bring the mud kitchen indoors! Sand in the children's room? This works with homemade magic sand - as the sand made from flour doesn't stick like real sand. So it doesn't make such a mess and is also suitable for playing indoors.

5. The practical DIY play shop
With this clever IKEA idea, your TROFAST shelf can be transformed into a space-saving play shop in no time at all! The trick: The market stall consists mainly of wall stickers, so that hardly any extra space is needed in the children's room. With the checkout conveyor and cute accessories such as vegetables or baked goods, the play shop becomes even more realistic. This transforms the children's room into a small marketplace on rainy autumn days - and the kids have lots of fun and activities despite the bad weather.

6. FLISAT sensory table: experience nature in the children's room
The IKEA FLISAT table is the perfect basis for an autumnal sensory table. Natural materials such as colourful leaves, chestnuts or pine cones can be collected in the integrated boxes - so autumn can be experienced with all the senses. Your child can stand, feel, sort and experiment safely and comfortably at the right height. After playing, simply close the table top again and everything stays neatly tucked away. It's an easy way to bring seasonal nature experiences into the nursery.

7. Even more fun with the LACK table
The iconic LACK table from IKEA can be transformed into a versatile indoor playing surface in no time at all with the matching play table foils. Whether it's a streetscape, football pitch or board game - the practical foils transform the table into an interactive play world that invites you to let off steam creatively.
An autumnal look for your home

8. Toy storage in autumn style with TROFAST
With our adhesive foils, you can easily bring an autumnal atmosphere into the children's room! The films bring autumnal colours and motifs into your home - perfect for brightening up the dark season. Whether warm autumn tones, playful patterns or cute motifs - the foils are child's play to apply and transform furniture into real eye-catchers. A quick and clever way to make your home autumnal and cosy.
The TROFAST shelf makes playing indoors and, above all, tidying up child's play. Toys can be stored in the large boxes in no time at all.
Craft ideas for autumn
Crafting is probably the best indoor activity for rainy days. Not only will your little ones learn to work creatively and independently, they can also decorate your home at the same time.
9. Get creative with salt dough
With salt dough, you can easily conjure up little works of art to decorate your home in a cosy and autumnal way. Whether it's cute pumpkins or other figures - there are no limits to your creativity. Salt dough is quick to make and perfect for crafting figures. Once baked, it can simply be coloured as desired. Particularly practical: the finished creations last a long time and can easily be stored for next year. We explain exactly how to prepare the dough and also have a few motif ideas for you!

10. Playful learning with the annual circle
With our craft instructions, we'll show you how you can easily make a circle of the year with your kids. This is a fun way to explain to your children why the nice weather is over now. They will learn when the months and seasons follow each other and have fun at the same time! All you need is our template to print out and a cork coaster. It's that easy to conjure up a colourful year clock!
Looking forward to the Christmas season
When autumn is already in full swing, it also means that Christmas is just around the corner! We have a few ideas for you on how to get ready.
