Making it Easier for Kids to Clean Up
How can I make it easier for the kids to do their own clean up?
1. Do a big clean up together to get started.
Seperate toys into obvious and big categories like Star Wars, Legos, tea sets, dolls, etc. While you are going through all that plastic, purge anything they have out grown.
2. CLEAR BINS are better than opaque as the children can easily see the balls, Legos, action figures or whatever toy should go in to that bin.
3. LABEL, LABEL LABEL.
Labels make it so much easier to the kids to clean up on their own later.
Little kids who can’t read: Use photos and tape or glue them to the bins.
Older kids who can read: Use the words.
4. A SET TIME EVERYDAY for clean up will make it more of an expected thing to do than a surprise. Most kids do better with consistency.
As a side note, most Professional Organizers are not fans of trunks or other large boxes as the little items fall to the bottom and are lost forever….
