How to Organize Kids Rooms, Closets, and Toys | Clutter Video Tip
- 6 years ago
Get organized with home organizing tips from professional organizers at The Clutter Diet. Its time to take off the kid gloves and tackle getting your children organized. Mondays child may be fair of face, but frustrations mount when toys arent put back in place. In todays video Lorie Marrero is tackling kids clothes, shoes, and toys. Following these tips will make you and your childs day less stressful. You can be the poster child for relaxing, fun free time, and thats not just childs play! These Clutter Video Tips are posted frequently here on our clutterdiet organizing channel. You can search Twitter for #ClutterVideoTip also to find comments on our organizing tips. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and ambassador of the Donate Movement.\r
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Hi Im Lorie Marrero, creator of the Clutter Diet book & online program; today were talking about organizing for kids. Im here in a closet that I just did a makeover on for some elementary age children, when youre working with kids, you have to think first about safety & age appropriateness & even their height. Bring their frequently used items down to a level that is appropriate for them. You dont want them climbing on something that might be unsafe. You also dont want them to have to depend on you too much to do their morning & evening routines.\r
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Fostering independence means keeping things within reach, work with their habits. Kids like things to be put away as easily as possible, make it easy for them. Take your existing towel rack- you can pull that out & replace it with two hooks. Not only do you get two towels hung in the space of one, but you also have worked with a kids habit.\r
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Ive used ClosetMaids Shelf-Track Elite, which is fantastic for kids because not only can you use these laminate pieces & intersperse them with the wire shelving, but you also can adjust all of it. When kids get older, their needs change, theyre going to have different sizes of clothes, so you can adjust all of these pieces. Even these cubbies can adjust differently.\r
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You cant talk about kids without talking about toys. What you dont want to do is store toys using a huge gaping toy box. It seems like a good idea because you can throw them all in one place, but it creates behaviors that you dont want. One of them is rooting. The kids are rooting through the stuff because they cant find anything, & then when they get frustrated it creates another behavior which is dumping of the toy box. Theyre just trying to get visibility to what they have. What you want to do instead is have categories with smaller containers & make it easy to find whatever youre playing with. These fabric drawers are a great way to do this. You dont want to store toys in the container that you purchased them in. Typically thats a flimsy box, & its great for getting the toy from the fory to the store, but not necessarily for storing. Thats why something like this fabric drawer is great, it holds all the little pieces, kids can throw that in really simply. & then, of course, you want to label that.\r
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This a cute snap-on label that we found at Target. If you cant find these, you can use a hanging string tag. You can get these at any office supply. But you definitely want to have some labels on these so the kids can find their stuff.\r
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The kids in this family are old enough to read really well. So these word labels were appropriate for them. If you have younger kids & theyre just learning to read, combining a word label with a picture is a better strategy. You can print out labels that are pictures of the ual toy, get that laminated, punch a hole in it, & hang it here. That will help their reading skills, & it helps their visibility to their toys.\r
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Adjustability is a big deal when youre creating organizing systems for kids. If the ivity table is too youthful for your kids, move the cube storage idea into a nice piece of furniture like this six-cube storage unit from Target, which is a nice furniture style that will last all the way until they leave for college. Whats great about this is that these shelves are adjustable. You can put books in here, toys, and, of course, interchange those with the fabric cubes. You can also change the cubes themselves. These fabric drawers are available in all kinds of different colors & textures.\r
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Learn more about these cube storage units at ClosetMaid.com, & if you like what you see, you can see more tips here on our YouTube channel. Share your ideas in the comments. You can
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Hi Im Lorie Marrero, creator of the Clutter Diet book & online program; today were talking about organizing for kids. Im here in a closet that I just did a makeover on for some elementary age children, when youre working with kids, you have to think first about safety & age appropriateness & even their height. Bring their frequently used items down to a level that is appropriate for them. You dont want them climbing on something that might be unsafe. You also dont want them to have to depend on you too much to do their morning & evening routines.\r
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Fostering independence means keeping things within reach, work with their habits. Kids like things to be put away as easily as possible, make it easy for them. Take your existing towel rack- you can pull that out & replace it with two hooks. Not only do you get two towels hung in the space of one, but you also have worked with a kids habit.\r
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Ive used ClosetMaids Shelf-Track Elite, which is fantastic for kids because not only can you use these laminate pieces & intersperse them with the wire shelving, but you also can adjust all of it. When kids get older, their needs change, theyre going to have different sizes of clothes, so you can adjust all of these pieces. Even these cubbies can adjust differently.\r
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You cant talk about kids without talking about toys. What you dont want to do is store toys using a huge gaping toy box. It seems like a good idea because you can throw them all in one place, but it creates behaviors that you dont want. One of them is rooting. The kids are rooting through the stuff because they cant find anything, & then when they get frustrated it creates another behavior which is dumping of the toy box. Theyre just trying to get visibility to what they have. What you want to do instead is have categories with smaller containers & make it easy to find whatever youre playing with. These fabric drawers are a great way to do this. You dont want to store toys in the container that you purchased them in. Typically thats a flimsy box, & its great for getting the toy from the fory to the store, but not necessarily for storing. Thats why something like this fabric drawer is great, it holds all the little pieces, kids can throw that in really simply. & then, of course, you want to label that.\r
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This a cute snap-on label that we found at Target. If you cant find these, you can use a hanging string tag. You can get these at any office supply. But you definitely want to have some labels on these so the kids can find their stuff.\r
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The kids in this family are old enough to read really well. So these word labels were appropriate for them. If you have younger kids & theyre just learning to read, combining a word label with a picture is a better strategy. You can print out labels that are pictures of the ual toy, get that laminated, punch a hole in it, & hang it here. That will help their reading skills, & it helps their visibility to their toys.\r
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Adjustability is a big deal when youre creating organizing systems for kids. If the ivity table is too youthful for your kids, move the cube storage idea into a nice piece of furniture like this six-cube storage unit from Target, which is a nice furniture style that will last all the way until they leave for college. Whats great about this is that these shelves are adjustable. You can put books in here, toys, and, of course, interchange those with the fabric cubes. You can also change the cubes themselves. These fabric drawers are available in all kinds of different colors & textures.\r
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Learn more about these cube storage units at ClosetMaid.com, & if you like what you see, you can see more tips here on our YouTube channel. Share your ideas in the comments. You can