Store Baby Socks In Egg Carton
Baby's little socks fit perfectly into the bottom of an egg carton. When they are rolled up, they fit like little eggs!
Organizing Your Children's Artwork
We all want to save all of our children's art work in the beginning. When they first begin drawing pictures and painting self-portraits and gluing random bits of construction paper to things we "ooh" and "ahhh" and proudly display them on our desks and refrigerators.
How to Organize Your Kid's Room
Here is a great video series about how to organize your kids room. Check out the related videos for additional tips about organizing your child's clothing, artwork and more.
This is a guide about organizing a changing table. With a baby in the house the changing table can be one of the busier places in the house. Keeping the table organized will help make changing time go much smoother and faster.
This is a guide about organizing your child's room. For many children cleaning and organizing their rooms is very difficult. Helping them get it organized gives them the ability to put their things away more easily.
Organizing Your Children's Artwork
This is a guide for organizing your children's artwork. Children create a great quantity of artwork at home and school.
Use Refrigerator For Bakugan Toy Storage
The outside of the refrigerator makes a great Bakugan play area. Bakugans stick to the refrigerator with their magnets. You can line them up, battle them, and make them climb up the refrigerator.
I have a 3 and 4 year old and they're currently sharing a room. I need a good organization tip to get all of them separated and together.
Small Shoe Organizer for Baby Essentials
Keep a small hanging organizer near the changing area for those everyday baby essentials like diapers, wipes, pacifiers, socks, hats, brush, bows/clips, nail clippers, etc. Any kind works, but the clear pouches make it easier to see the contents and lessen digging time.
Keeping a Scout's Stuff Organized
'Tis the season for Webelos (5th grade Cub Scouts) to bridge into Boy Scout troops. It's an exciting time for all, especially the new Scout! One way to keep all of the "Scout stuff" together is to get a plastic bin.
Store Puzzle Pieces in Ziploc Bags
My toddler grandson loves puzzles. We have many boxes of them - 35-55 pieces each. So the pieces don't get mixed up with other puzzles, I bag each puzzle in a zip locked baggy (sandwich size) and place it back into the puzzle box.
Give Each Child Their Own Color
I have four kids in my house. To make things easier, each kid has their own color (green, blue, red, pink/yellow). we have three boys and a girl. Most things come in green, blue, red, and yellow like plates, bowls, cups, tooth brushes, etc.
I have 4 kids and each one has their own schedule that I need to keep track of. I print out a calender for each month for each kid. Each calender is color coded so it is easy to read the minute you/child looks at it.
Binder for Saving School Keepsakes
My daughter came up with the best idea to save her 2 1/2 year old twin boys artwork! They do some kind of art project nearly every day, and the papers were really beginning to pile up at home!
Storing Children's CDs and DVDs
Are you finding you have too many DVDs and not enough places to store them? I did. So I purchased several three ring binders, plastic sheet protectors, and DVD envelopes.
Keep an "activity box" on hand. Organizing one day, I took a big cardboard box and filled it with the things that I had available for children to play with. I was surprised at the crayons, coloring books, chalk, jump ropes, etc. that I had amassed.
Pringles Can Backpack Organizer
How many times has your child come home with precious art work smashed or torn from being stuffed inside a backpack? Let your child make a backpack organizer out of a used Pringles can.
Use Plastic Bin for Kid's Gift Wrap
My daughter in law has been going through the granddaughter's toys and arranging them by type, like Barbie's, etc. She purchased some plastic bins of different sizes for this task.
Years ago when my kids started school every year I took a picture of each of them the first day of school. I taped the picture to a large manila folder. I wrote on the outside the teachers name, school and who were the friends at that time.
Toy Wagon for Child's Shoe Storage
A small child's wagon, either metal or plastic, makes for great shoe storage container by a front or back door, or even in the child's bedroom. This way it's easy to put shoes away, and keeps them centrally located and easy to find when you're rushing out the door.
Clear Candy Tubes for Small Toy Storage
A great way to organize and re-cycle while doing so. Those long clear tubes that candy (ex. M & M's) comes in provide great storage for small toy pieces and can make them more readily available for your child's play time.
Organizing Toy Cars and Trains
First go to any discount store and purchase see through fishing tackle type boxes of various sizes and place your child's toy trains, or hot wheel cars in them. Most of these have removable slots so you can easily customize yours if you are like me and have small trains and larger ones with tenders.
Does anyone know of a better way to store large play toys (walker for babies, etc.)? I put them in big plastic bags in the garage but they just tear and then get all dirty. Any suggestions?
Hang Pegboard for Playroom Organization
I was having trouble in my daughters' toy room. Their things were always on the floor. So, I installed "peg board", as used in the garage, etc. I painted it purple and pink to match their room.
We have been known to run out of the house and leave our son's diaper bag behind, thinking we'd only be out for just a few minutes and wouldn't need it. Well, on more than one occasion, that "quick" trip lasted longer than we thought!
