When decorating children's boxes, there are a number of factors to think about. The first is what gender the boxes are designed for - boys or girls? Some people think this is irrelevant but boys and girls generally, have very different ideas about how their boxes should be decorated.
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If you paint hearts and flowers on a boy's box, I'm sure they wouldn't be too pleased. Conversely, if you paint footballs, or rugby balls on a girl's box, they'd probably be disappointed!
What about colours? Is there any truth in the idea that boys prefer blue and girls prefer pink? Well, it's easy to spot the girls' section in any children's clothes shop because a lot of the clothing will inevitably be pink.
Many parents however, insist that they would prefer their daughters to wear clothes with different colours, although pink does seem to have a powerful allure for girls. But is it inevitable that girls will prefer pink and boys will prefer blue?
Painting Pre-Formed, Decorative Motifs
In the USA, most studies have found that babies and toddlers, whether male or female, are attracted to primary colours such as blue and red rather than pink, which doesn't seem to feature very high on the list at all.
Cultural norms often determine colour preferences. Where pink is considered the appropriate colour for a girl and blue for a boy, children often become accustomed to these norms, because they are surrounded by these colours, from birth.
Retailers unfortunately, tend to ram the message home and this then becomes hard-wired into peoples minds!
Applying Decorative Flower Patterns
Polmac (UK) Ltd manufactures children's boxes, in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours, including pink and blue. However, as all our children's boxes are custom made, so we have no hard and fast rule about this.
All our children's boxes are made from wood and painted in a variety of child compatible, pastel shades. They are decorated with hand painted, or pre-formed, decorative motifs, including hearts, flowers, stars, footballs etc., to provide visually stunning, decorative effects that children find irresistible!
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