Weed out the toys your children have outgrown. The best way I have found to do this is to let the kids have a garage sale where they can sell (and keep!) the money from the toys they sell. The more they let go of, the more money they make. Be sure to promise to take them to a toy store pretty soon after the garage sale so they can reap the reward of letting their old toys go.
Categorize the toys to be kept, and give each category its own bin or shelf. Categories should be simple enough for a preschooler to understand. For example, all the toy vehicles go into one bin, all the toy people go into another bin.
Don’t bother with lids for bins. Lids only get in the way.
Don’t cram the bins overly full. If things only fit like puzzle pieces inside the bins, your child will find that too hard to maintain and won’t use it.
Label each bin and shelf so kids (and helper adults) know where to put things when it’s time to clean up. Your labels can simply be pictures of the toys you find online, printed out and taped to the front of the bin.
Only keep an amount of toys and personal items that can be cleaned up in about 10-15 minutes. If you have 20+ bins of toys in your child’s bedroom, your kiddo could make a mess that requires an hour or more of clean-up. Save yourself from that pointless agony by putting any extra toys into rotation.
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