Two Year Old New Room

Make sure what ever "comforts" your child is present in the Room. My now 3 1/2 year old has not only had a new bedroom, but a new house 2 times now and is going to have a third new house this summer (Military) - we just make sure the things he finds comforting are among the first things we unpack when we get to our new house ( some of them travel with us - favorite blanket/stuffed animal, maybe one toy). Kids are pretty resilient - the adjust pretty quickly.

My two older boys still have their favorite blankets and stuffed animals that they like to have in their room - or in the car - or at least in the house they are in. They may not pull them out of the suitcase, but we never travel without those things.

Good Luck!
T.

Make sure some of their favorite things are in the room and let them help decorate the room. Getting them involved in picking out things for their room is always exciting and may help your child want to be in the room.

If being surrounded by all of his/her personal things is not helping then allow your child to make some decisions as to how to decorate it "his/her way". A big day "out to lunch/shopping trip" and talk about changing the color of the room and maybe a new comforter and pillow shams and curtains would help. Sometimes, the color of a room is unpleasant for a child. Other times, it could go way beyond the room at all. IT may just be his/her way of saying something more going on and can not figure out how to express it in any other way.

New is often tough for young people. Be patient...

Try setting up the room a month or so before you actually need/would like for him/her to be in it. Slowly start moving some of his toys over to the new room and let him play in there. Talk frequently about his "new" room and what a big boy he is. Read books to him on his new bed (assuming he's going from crib to bed) and encourage him to take a nap in there, slowly working your way up to sleeping there at night and being fully moved in. This process worked for me! Good luck!

Keep as many familiar items as possible (same bed sheets, toys, ...)

A few months before our daughter was born, we upgraded our son to a new room with a toddler bed. Her was around 20 months. We did that so his sister would have the crib's room (and we didn't want to dismantle the crib to move it to another room)

We changed the crib's room entirely, so he wouldn't even recognize it (from blue to pink and green)

As for his room, we moved there his bookshelf, his soft toys, the drawings on the wall and try to keep the same theme for the bedsheets.

For the walls, we bought removable stickers and he helped us positioning them and chose where to put them...

For the transitioning, we left for the holidays. When we left, we emptied the crib room. When we came back, we introduced him his new room. It worked very well and he loved his room and never tried to get back in the other.

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Many years ago when my children were little I was married to the Army so we moved around. I was told to arrange the kids room the exact same way as the previous place. If the head of the bed was pointed north, then point it north in the new room. etc. I did help and they adapted quickly. After they get used to the new place, then you can arrange it however, you want.