Toys have a way of becoming strewn everywhere throughout the house within thirty minutes of cleaning them up. If you’re a parent, then you know what I am talking about. The play room is the place you send your kids to so that you can clean up the rest of the house, so it is a huge piece of your sanity sometimes. At least, that is until you have to clean it up.
To help you conquer this challenge and make it so that you don’t have to dedicate too much extra time in the future cleaning it, here are four easy ways to organize your children’s play room.
Have a Reading Corner
Books can quickly get disorganized and out of control in a playroom. Keeping books displayed and organized makes reading more appealing and protects your books from wear and tear. Incorporating display shelves allows you to advertise books to your kids and give your reading corner a library feel.
Incorporating some kind of seating is a great way for children to enjoy reading for hours as well. For example, kids love reading books on beanbags or hanging chairs.
Create an Art Area
Children love to create new art. It is a great way for your children to express their creative side! Organizing crayons, colored pencils, markers and other art supplies in separate containers will keep them from becoming scattered all together.
With young children, keep art supply containers on a high shelf so they don’t create any art on your walls without your knowledge. You can even incorporate a magnet board or wall for your young budding artists to display their art. One way that you can do that is to take a giant piece of sheet metal, paint it with whiteboard paint and tack it up on the wall right by the art area.
Get a Colorful Bin System
Containers and bins are going to be your best friend when organizing your play room. Having a labeled bin for each set of similar toys is the perfect way to keep toys organized and be able to locate them with efficiency and ease. Also, if you have children who tend to fight over toys, then this is a great way of separating one’s toys from another’s.
Children also really like to have bins that are colorful, and so it is a good idea to make sure that whichever ones that you end up getting are in your child’s favorite colors. These bins can also double as a cubby system for games, puzzles, and anything else that may need its own separate space.
Contain Stuffed Animals
Stuffed animals are also toys that can quickly be scattered everywhere. Cute stuffed animals need a storage option where they can be seen and enjoyed. Some people use crates or shoe organizers to help solve this issue for them. However, another really cool idea would be to get a hammock that small children can lay in sometimes, but its primary use would be to hold all of their cuddly animals.
Organizing your playroom can save you and your children the headache of searching for a specific toy or pieces to a game. If you need a little extra help, you can also enlist the aid of Sanity Saving Errand Tacklers or a similar cleaning service near you. When everything has its own space, your children can focus on playing or creating beautiful art masterpieces—and you won’t have to worry about tackling the mess as much as you might have had to before.
