Organizing Tips For Your Kid’s Room

If you have a child you know how hard it is to get and keep their room organized. The following are some great organizing tips designed specifically around what it takes to get a kid’s room organized:

Use Wasted Space

Your child probably has more stuff than they need, as is the case with most children, which is usually why it’s so hard to keep their rooms organized. As children grow out of clothes quickly, the closet always seems to be in a state of flux. They also have many toys, and seem to collect more each week. To make the best use of the space in your child’s room, get it organized. For example, pull all the clothes they’re growing out of from the closet and put them into boxes. You can also purchase an under the bed hard plastic container to put under the bed; pull it out when you find more things that no longer fit. Take advantage of the top shelves in closets and the floors of closets, too. Find storage containers and store things the child is not currently using, such as winter clothes in the summer, or items you want to rotate, such as toys. Those containers can go in the closet on the floor.

Get Colorful

One fun way to organize your child’s room is to use fashionable baskets and bins. You can purchase canvas bins that fit easily on a book shelf, in a cube unit or another convenient space, like the bottom shelf of a bedside table. For greater organization still, choose different colored bins. Then specify what goes with each color. For example, toys can go in the blue bins and books in the red ones. Of course you can be as specific as you want. For example, you might decide that toy animals go in yellow bins, dolls in purple bins and coloring stuff in the pink bin. Then teach your child the color code and things will stay better organized.

Label

No matter what else you do, if you want to organize your kid’s room, label everything. In your closet label the shelves so that when the owner of the closet puts their clothes away, they know where everything goes. The same can be said of the bins holding toys whatever else you’ve separated into bins or containers. If your child is not old enough to read yet, use picture labels to help them keep things organized.

Have Functional Fun

If you want things to stay organized once you’ve completed the initial clean up, make the room fun and functional room. For example, part of organization is keeping things clean, so get a waste basket and a laundry hamper for each room. Make these both functional and fun by putting a basketball hoop above them. That way, putting dirty clothes where they go becomes a game rather than a chore.

Contain It

Separating items into containers is a big part of organizing a child’s room. Your kid could have a giant toy box, but it wouldn’t help your efforts to clean their room. Instead of a giant container that small parts will get lost in, get specific. Get storage containers with snap or flip tops, plastic baskets or cloth lined bins to separate and hold everything from books and toys to shoes and pants. Use Tupperware to hold the Polly Pocket accessories. Use closeable storage containers for matchbox cars and put books in baskets.

Simplify

This is the last and most important tip. Children aren’t skilled, or good, at keeping things organized, never mind if they have too much to keep clean. Rotate toys so they only have a certain number of them at a time. This will also save you money buying toys and time picking up toys. Get rid of excess anywhere you see fit as this makes it much easier to keep their room clean and organized.