How to store your child's toys?

Mar 08, 2023

Three principles of toy storage:

1. Don’t buy too much

Too much to play at all. Set a red line for yourself, and buy as many toys as there are places. What is said is to put away half of it, and then change it in a few months, and even you will forget it in a few months. Instead of this, it is better to buy less

2. Easy to pick and place

The child can take it off and put it back on by himself. If the location is too high and it is difficult to open in the cabinet, the mother has to clean it up every day, and she has to worry about the child holding her hands and falling her head, which is very tiring.

3. put together, use a shelf

Small footprint, three-dimensional and easy to search. All stacked toy storage boxes that don't pull out like drawers are hooligans. Let you and your baby's eyes be full of toys, and you need to get attention every now and then, whether you are good for them or not.

1. Determine the storage location and measure the size

Are your toys placed in the living room, balcony, bedroom, or children's room? The living room and children's room are more recommended locations. In the living room, adults can increase the time they spend playing games with their children. As the child grows up and has her own children's room, the task of organizing and storing her own supplies is left to her. Where toys are played, put them near where they are, easy to pick and place, and will not be all over the room, reducing the workload of tidying up, and it is best to put them all together. (Tell the children to play in that fixed area) Moreover, the storage racks and children’s rooms should not be too garish and dizzy. The family should still be dominated by the husband and wife, supplemented by the children. Don’t make the children more important than adults high. Measure the dimensions of this space so that you can choose the right storage rack.

2. Throw and throw away the total amount of toys, leaving only the ones that your child likes and suitable for your child's age and put them together. Look, look, how much you spent on toys!

If she doesn't play with a few toys, you can secretly throw them away. I heard that it is not good to buy too many toys. Children tend to have choice phobia and distract attention. I'm not scaring you, it's true,
In fact, although children have a long time for indoor activities, it is not necessarily solved by buying more toys. Parents can play many games with their children, create many games by themselves, or develop new ways and tricks of toys, which actually develops intelligence more. For example, an adult and a child tell a story one by one. Don't buy your child ahead of time: If you want your child to feel grateful, let him go through the process of waiting and longing often. Many children have just learned to walk, and adults can't wait to buy children's bicycles for them. The children will take it for granted. The child cannot experience the joy of being satisfied that his heart longs for for a long time, so it is difficult to be satisfied, and the people who live with him will be very hard. In addition, taking books as an example, the child really can't understand them if they are bought early, because her cognitive ability has not reached that level. For example, when I bought a map and a globe, my child didn't start to be interested until he was about 6 years old, and only then did he start asking where this is and what it is. But it doesn't mean that toys and books of one age cannot be used by another age, similar ages are still possible. For example, the picture book "Fourteen Mice" can be read by parents and children when they are young, and can be read by themselves when they are older. Even an adult like me likes it very much. I take it out every now and then to look through it. The pictures are so beautiful. Therefore, whether you can develop all the functions of a toy/a picture book, spend money wisely, and maintain the space at home is the key. Parents still need to spend some time thinking about it. Blindly buying and buying is the last thing to do. fetched.

3. After the classification is completed, there is basically a fixed position. With the picture or text label on the storage box, tell the child where to take it and put it back, and put it together in the same category.

The children's room is a room that integrates learning, games, sleep, and storage, so the difficulty of organizing should not be underestimated, and it requires reasonable planning.

Items for children (taking elementary school students as an example) are divided into five categories:
1. Clothes, shoes, accessories;
2. Stationery, such as textbooks, books, watercolor pens, colored paper, musical instruments, skipping rope, checkers, etc.;
3. Toys, such as plush toys, building blocks, cars, plasticine, etc.;
4. Souvenirs, imprints of growth such as travel tickets, children's paintings and handicrafts;
5. Snacks, I put snacks in the kitchen instead of the children's room. I guess parents don't want snacks in the children's room, but snacks are indeed children's items. I put stationery and toys in two places, in order to create a learning atmosphere, so that children have a sense of distance from these two types of items psychologically;

Toys are roughly divided into several categories: the first category is operating toys, which can improve children's fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, and exercise children's patience, such as puzzles, building blocks, plug-in toys, origami paper-cutting, plasticine, ultra-light clay, Handmade toys, beach toys, beaded toys. The second category is educational toys, which inspire children's understanding of color, quantity, language, words, music, etc., such as brushes, picture recognition, literacy, music, English learning, Qiaohu CD-ROM and children's computers, etc. are all educational toys. Science experiment toys are also in this category. The third category is educational toys, which cultivate children's logical thinking, sense of space, and imagination, such as logic dogs, backgammon, checkers, checkers, flying chess, jigsaw puzzles, nine chains, and educational apps in ipad, etc. Intellectual development toys. The fourth category is social cognitive toys, which improve children's cognition and understanding of society, such as transportation toys and plush toys for playing house. The fifth category is fitness toys to improve children's physical fitness, such as tents, hammocks, football, skipping rope, bicycles, scooters, etc.

4. Make sure the storage tools recommend shelves + open storage boxes, and the shelves should not be too small and uniform in size. Are your self-made storage boxes really good-looking? White or transparent is the best

For children's paintings, the art class recommends using this large A3 clip to store them, and will also choose a few to hang on the wall at home;

Books should be placed vertically, just like the books of adults, they can also be placed on the bookshelf, so that children can pick and place them conveniently

5. Help children develop the habit of self-care

Every time you read a book, tell your child to put it back in the original place after reading it. After a long time, it will be good to develop a habit. Put the child’s clothes together, let her choose the clothes she will wear the next day, and put them on the bed before going to bed Inform the child 10 minutes in advance to tidy up schoolbags, desks before eating, and before going to bed, and let her tidy up toys by herself

My method is to tell her that I will think that she does not want the things left outside, so I will throw them away, and I really lost them a few times, and then she will pay attention to them, and she will throw away the unnecessary things by herself. The trash can sit with the child from time to time, spread out all the toys, tell her that there is not enough space, and let her choose to discard some (as the child grows older, there must be some toys that are no longer suitable for her to play, if you keep them , the storage space is definitely not enough). The child is not stupid, she will not agree to throw away her favorite toy. Clothes, books, and toys that have been eliminated can be donated to impoverished areas, or given to relatives and friends, telling children that they can play other roles