Are you tired of seeing your child’s toys strewn across the floor? Have you picked up the building blocks from every place possible? Is your living room always a mess even when you spend hours cleaning it? If you are nodding your head to the questions posed above, then it is time for you to revisit your organising strategy at home. In this blog, we will be exploring different storage ideas for your kids’ toys and help you achieve a spick and span living room.
Let’s get started.
Best Storage Ideas for Your Kids’ Toys
There are several ways you can store your kids’ toys. Moreover, you can ask your kids to help you out in sorting their favourite toys. This will not only make them responsible, but it will also help you out a great deal in managing your daily chores. Take a look at some of the best storage ideas for your kids’ toys.
- Create a storage seat
- Stacked storage unit
- Under the sofa/bed storage
- Shelves
- Use an empty trunk
- Make a toy library
Let’s discuss all of these points in detail.
Create a storage seat
If you have a trunk where you store your kids’ toys, then how about utilising it as a storage seat? You can also come up with other storage seat ideas. Measure the size beneath your living room couch. Take old wooden crates. Paint them different bright colours. This can be one of the easiest storage ideas for your kids’ toys.
If you are creative enough, then make your own bench with storage space beneath it. Take a look around you. You might find spaces beneath your workbench, above the kids’ cupboards or the window seat. Utilise these vacant spaces to your benefit.
If you don’t have wooden crates, you don’t need to buy anything to store your kids’ toys. You can easily paint old shoe boxes. Make a hole on both sides of the shoe boxes so that you can pull them out when needed.
Stacked storage unit
Another creative way to organise kids’ toys is to use a stacked-up method. Collect similar sized cartons and place them against the wall. Paint happy faces on them or any colourful drawing you like.
Once your kids are done playing with the toys, keep the toys inside these cartons and stack them together. These painted boxes will add up to your house decor.
Under the sofa/bed storage
As part of your cleaning task, you have to daily pick up your children’s toys and clean the mess. However, there is another form of cleaning needed to get things done and that is when your children outgrow toys they used to play with the previous year. You might want to save those toys for your next kid.
One of the best long-term storage ideas for your kids’ toys is to make use of the space under your bed or sofa. Ask your carpenter to make drawers that you can roll out after storing your kids’ toys in them. Another place where you can store your kids’ toys is the headboard.
Have a rectangle wooden structure as your headboard, having plenty of space inside it and a lid on the top. Place all your kids’ toys that your child doesn’t use anymore in it.
Shelves
Placing your kids’ toys on shelves not only helps you store things easily, but it also adds up to your house’s decor. No playroom gives a complete look without the presence of toys on display. Use this storage hack for kids’ toys as a means to decorate the dull looking wall in your child’s bedroom.
If you have just built your home and there are leftover wooden tiles, don’t discard them. Use your carpentry skills and build a shelf the DIY way. All you need is a hammer and a few nails and an angle hook to fix the shelf on the wall. Place your kids’ toys like decoration pieces and you have a beautiful wall! This is perhaps one of the best DIY toy storage ideas for kids. You can also check out how to recycle construction waste.
Use an empty trunk
Do you have your grandma’s old trunk lying around? How about repainting it with a bright yellow colour. Place it in your child’s room and use it as a storage unit for your kids’ toys. If you have different-sized trunks, then place them like stairs.
Keep a colourful rug on each of the trunks. Your toddler would love to climb up and down the set of trunks. If you have a single large trunk – make it stand out in the room. Place smaller toys as decoration pieces on top of the trunk and all the big toys should be stored inside the trunk.
Make a toy library
Just like a library, you get a book issued in your name and unless you return the book, you can’t borrow another book. You can apply the same rule with your children’s toys. Keep a checklist of the toys in the trunk. Hang it near the trunk or your storage unit.
Ask your kids to bring back the toys before issuing them the other set of toys. In this way, you can keep things organised and your house won’t look like a war-torn area every time your child plays a game.
So, these were some of the best ideas to organise a playroom. If you want to instill a reading habit in your kids, then do take a look at some of these stunning reading nook ideas that you can have at home.
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