Organize Your Toddler’s Bedroom Fast

Anyone can organize a child’s room once. Your goal is to make sure your child’s room is easy to organize on a day-to-day basis.

Toddlers tend to have a lot of mess, and no inclination to pick-up. Toddlers are in fact too young to pick-up on their own, so don’t even try – a big messy room looks insanely complicated to a little one. Your toddler should help, but not be in charge of cleaning. To make it easier on yourself, follow these tips:

Ban large toy boxes: Large toy boxes suck so far as organizing is concerned. All you do is lose items in that vast box. A better solution for a toddler room is to use bins, either on a shelf, or in a bin holder, and place all of one item in a bin. For example, blocks in one bin, big Legos in another.

Rotate like mad: Kids can end up with so many toys it boggles the mind. My son was the first grandkid on either side of the family and he was spoiled rotten by well-meaning friends and family. The problem – too many toys. To solve this issue, I rotated. Each month or so, I’d take out some toys Cedar had not seen in a while and pack up some he’d had out forever. He got new and exciting toys once in a while, and I had less to clean up on a daily basis. Go us.

Create zones: Anyone reading this blog knows I’m sort of obsessed with room zones. I use them for my home office and I use them for other areas of my house as well. Zones are particularly useful in toddler rooms. Create a cozy zone – with a big pillow and low bookshelf with reading material. Create an art zone with a bin shelf for art supplies and a small art table and chairs. Create a play zone by using a flat (non-plushy) rug in front of a toy shelf. If you create zones, and your child catches on, he’ll learn organizing by example.