Storage Ideas For Play Rooms

Incorporating storage solutions into your children's play room is vital. Play rooms can go from neat and tidy to the ultimate disaster in the time it takes to wash your hands or answer the phone. The descent into play room bedlam is so rapid and so complete that it is almost otherworldly. Every time this transformation happens in the presence of my spouse I can hear the faint humming the the Twilight Zone theme song.

The fact is that play rooms need to be tidied 2 or 3 times more often than other rooms of the house because they become disaster zones 2 or 3 times more often. Some creative storage solutions for your play room can make this task easier. With a little thought you can make tidying the play room into a sort of game and the kids will even help put things back into their proper place.

As you may have noticed from some of my other posts and articles, I am a big fan of the plastic bin. Plastic bins help with closet organization and all sorts of other storage problems. Plastic bins are cheap and durable. The use of brightly coloured plastic bins in the play room is a fantastic idea.

The following are two ideas that I have seen used effectively:

1. Each child has their own plastic bin. It is helpful if the bins are different colours. Each child is taught that all their toys must be returned to their special plastic bin before a new toy is played with. This gives each child a sense of responsibility from a very young age. The plan does not always work but with some gentle encouragement it soon can become habit forming.

This idea also allows the child to take their toys and special bin to their bedroom or another quiet place in the house if they want some quiet time.

2. Make some built-in shelves that fit a series of plastic bins. On the ends of the plastic bins glue on pictures of specific toys or perhaps find some appropriate stickers. You can have a truck bin, a barbie bin, a stuffed animal bin, a train and train track bin, a princess bin, a Dora bin, etc. Clean uptime is fun and easy because the kids simply return their toys to the bin that has the correct picture on the end. Give your kids a reward like a kiss or a green grape for every truck that goes into the truck bin or every princess that goes into the princess bin. By giving the child a small reward you are re-enforcing good behaviour. Small rewards can make the clean up process quick, easy and infinitely more pleasant for the parent.

Play room storage ideas can be fun and easy. Check back to this blog for some other play room storage solutions