![]() ![]() Emmie is so proud to have her artwork displayed and I'm very glad to not have piles around the playroom anymore! □ 9. I use binder clips to hang the artwork and change it out every once in awhile. It's simply picture hanging wire wrapped around a couple of nails that are secured into the wall. This art display is one of the newest additions to the playroom. Plus, those piles make an absolute mess around the house! If Emmie's putting the effort into making it, I want her to know I appreciate it. I am a huge fan of labeling bins in the playroom! It kind of gives you a focus when you're trying to clean the room, and they are super helpful once your child can start reading (that way, you don't hear “where does this go?” a billion times during cleaning sessions).Įspecially for art projects, I have a tendency to pile and forget about it. We've found that by tackling the mess each day, it kind of stays in check (and we don't have to have marathon cleaning sessions in the playroom anymore). Set aside 10 minutes of every single day to tidy up.īefore Emmie goes to bed each night, she has to spend a few minutes tidying up in her playroom no exceptions. It makes finding different items so much easier.Īnd don't underestimate the power of storage bins from The Dollar Tree! I use lots of the shoebox-sized ones to organize art supplies, coloring books, and stickers. There's a section for dress-up, one for “planes, trains, & automobiles,” one for blocks & balls, one for figurines, etc…you get the idea. In that multi-colored storage, I try to separate different kinds of items. The multi-colored basket storage has been with us since Emmie was very small and is probably my favorite storage item in the playroom! It's so easy to put the little trinkets that are used a lot in these baskets. We like to keep things in there that Emmie plays with a lot and she can easily find. One of the best investments ever! The clear storage next to it is fairly new. Ive had the white drawer storage on the left since college…it's held many different things over the years. We have designated sections in the playroom for each kind of play. We will eventually go to a “one in, one out” policy, but while we're still trying to purge things, this works so well! If she gets a huge toy, she gets rid of two big toys. And they have to be comparable toys if she gets a Happy Meal toy, she gets rid of two small toys. We let Emmie decide which two toys she wants to donate or throw away each time she gets something new. So, this one has been huge for us: for every toy that comes into the playroom, two go out. It just seems like boxes and bins are exploding every time I turn around, no matter how many times I try to clean them out. I don't know about y'all, but toys seem to multiply in our playroom. If it's out of place, we put it back by the end of the day (see #6 below). We're all aware of where everything goes. A place for everything, and everything in its place.Ībsolutely everything in our playroom has a place now. Plus, we discovered a few things that we had honestly forgotten she even had!Ģ. Doing this allowed us to inventory everything and really focus on things she would use. We were able to get rid of two huge boxes of toys by doing this! More importantly, we got the items in the playroom down to things that she actually values and uses. Since Emmie had a part in the process, there were no tantrums later when a toy was missing. I'll look through and see if anything is worth selling in a garage sale after the fact, I just didn't think Emmie was quite ready for the sell vs. It was a great lesson in determining what others could use vs. Here's how we did it: For each container we have in the playroom, I looked through and set a number of items that Emmie had to choose to either give to charity or throw away (it usually equaled about half of the items in that container). ![]() I'd be willing to bet your child will never miss a lot of the items in your playroom right now! The way I figure it, we can get rid of things we don't need and allow somebody else to have things they do need. No matter what you do, you'll need to get rid of some of it. If you're anything like us, you just have too much stuff. ![]()
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