Every global citizen needs a map to inspire them. Maps are amazing tools for learning, imagining, and playing. I can still remember the round globe that I spent hours spinning as a child–ah, the wonder at where my finger would land! InCultureParent found some of the best child world maps on the market for your children’s room.
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10 Best Kid-friendly World Maps
The perfect map for families who move around a lot and don’t like to mess up too many walls (like us), these are sticker decals. They will take some work to arrange to make sure everything is in just the right place, but they are easy to apply and remove. They can be stuck to not just walls but also to the fridge, table, desk, cabinets and drawers.
Buy it: amazon.com
Using a rainbow of colors in subtler hues, the countries pop against a crisp, white background. The colors are gentle enough that they will easily match any room color or design, while announcing a bold presence on the wall. This map can also be customized by size.
Buy it: http://www.etsy.com/people/englishmuffinshop
Bright and fun, this map is great for countries and also has a few animals and flags thrown on it. However, it is a bit haphazard with the animal choices as the former Soviet Union, China, India and Europe don’t have a single animal while Africa is animal laden.
Buy it:allposters.com
10. The Plain Jane with Benefits
And finally, do you just want a standard map with no extra frills or designs? Then you should at least go with this one because it not only sticks and unsticks to the wall without destroying it and without tape, but it’s a dry erase board as well! Perfect for a low-hanging area that the kids can doodle on to their heart’s content.
Buy it: Amazon.com
So, these are some of the best child world maps of the world we have. If you have any suggestions or wanna share your interesting stories with the child map – Do comment below. We would love to hear from our readers.
Have you checked “upside-down” world maps? They provide a very different view of the world 🙂 I have seen maps in many different formats. Really fun!
I’m so glad to see educational (and artistic) maps that have wonderful images to them! A nice departure from the old ones I remember with children that “represent” their country of origin (you remember the “Heidi” and the “Geisha”?)!
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You really ought to include a Peters Projection map in the mix as it accurately shows the size of the continents in relationship to each other. http://www.petersmap.com/
LOVE the maps! The only one I don’t appreciate is #3- Greenland looks as big as South America. I hate when maps give a Northern-Hemisphere-centric view (my pet peeve:). Check out a Peters Projection map- it too can be controversial, but it’s basis of equal area provides another perspective.
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Geotoys also has a couple of great world map puzzles. So you get the double benefit of putting it together before you study it.
GREAT article! Thank you. Definitely, yes, adding some Equal-Area-Projection maps, and some education that maps form kids’ views about the world as well as awareness of/knowledge about it. One book review on this subject that may be of interest: http://blog.culturaldetective.com/2012/03/05/book-review-how-maps-change-things/
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These are all great suggestions. We recently came up with a new angle how to present wall maps for kids. We developed wall maps that also work with augmented reality technology to display interactive and educational information on the mobile device. I would love your and your audience option on it as we have just introduced it to the market. All the best. Martin http://interactive.funmapsforkids.com/world_map_for_kids/
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I loved your collection of maps. I always encourage the global families that I work with to keep maps in their home to help ground their little global nomads. I am always amazed at how many of these little people’s extended families do not own maps so now I always encourage them to give the gift of a map to their cousins or Grandparents as their going-away gift. Many of there will be prefect for this recommendation. Thank you!
Hi there,
I’m in Port Edward and am dying to get two children’s maps of the world. Where can I get them?
Regards
Map nerd here, i really dislike that all these maps use projections that make greenland huge.