Organizing a Child’s Closet and Room

Storage Racks: Adding shelving to your child’s closet can create places for all of those little things that you do not necessarily need to hang.
Stacking Bins: Bins are easily accessible by children and color coordinating or labeling each bin makes cleaning up a snap.

Linen Storage: Children often have a lot of extra sheet sets and comfortors. Making a space for extra linen storage can keep it from spilling over into a clothing area. You may want to use crates up on shelves to keep them separate. Another option is to put them in large shallow containers underneath the bed.

Laundry Hamper: Make sure that your child has easy access to a laundry hamper. Ones that match their room decorations will encourage them to actually use it. Teach them to put their clothes in as part of their morning and night time routine. Then, when it is full, they can help do the laundry.

Cabinet: Adding cabinets to a child’s room can be relatively inexpensive. Cabinets make great spots for keeping games, puzzles, art supplies and books. If you have a young child or a baby, you can keep diaper changing materials, out of reach medicines, humidifiers and thermometers in a cabinet, safely out of sight and reach.

Nets: Nets are great for getting all of those stuffed animals off the floor and out of the toybox. They can really take up a lot of space. Putting them in a net also keeps them out where your child can eaisly pick which one they want to sleep with at night. Plus, the net makes a fun place to play stuffed animal basketball.

Pocket Organizer: Pocket organizers are great for shoes, but they can also be used for a plethora of other children’s needs. Mittens and gloves, socks, small cars or building blocks, art supplies, you name it. As kids get older, it seems like the pieces of their toys get smaller and smaller. See-through pockets make organizing tiny pieces a snap.

Hooks and Clips: Hooks and clips can help keep backpacks, coats and scarves off the floor. Ball caps, book bags and anything that can hang can be placed on a hook. Then, not only is it put away, but it’s easily accessible for quick bolts out the door. Wet winter coats are able to dry without getting other clothing wet.

Children’s Hangers: Using children’s hangers will help you get the longest life out of your child’s clothes. Adult hangers can stretch out the shoulders of your kid’s clothing. Getting exciting colors of children’s hangers that match your child’s room can make the closet more a part of their decorations. Using childrens hangers will encourage your child to hang their own clothes.

About the Author: Ron Maier is the owner of Only Kids Hangers, a leading provider of childrens hangers. The right childrens clothes hangers really make the difference in kid's retail or home organization. For more information, please visit www.onlykidshangers.com.

Get My Kids Organized!

lmost every parent struggles with getting their kids' lives organized. Each season brings a whole new barage of items to manage. Sometimes it can feel like an incredibly hopeless situation. It is time to figure out a system that can get you from soccer season, to basketball season. Get clothes organized from Christmas to Back to School. When everything is easy to transition, your world and their's can run a lot more smoothly and keeping up with everything will hopefully not be such a battle.
You can implement a system no matter how little space you have to work with. A lot may depend on yoru child's age, so get inspired to come up with some ideas of your own to fit your personal situation.
-Get rid of extra junk. Kids can be inspired if you hold a garage sale and let them keep the money from the sale of their own items. Or, use this opportunity to teach your children about being charitable and remind them how lucky they are to have so much stuff that they actually need to get rid of some of it.
-Find unused space. A lot of times, we may not realize just how much space is actually available. Corner shelves only take up about a foot of actual space, but can hold a lot of books, games, figurines and models. Toy nets that hang from the ceiling can hold enough stuffed animals, blankets and pillows to clear out an entire toybox or closet shelf. Shallow wide containers make excellent out-of-sight storage under the bed.
-Move things out that do not need to be in the bedroom. Sports equipment can easily be kept in a mudroom or garage instead of in the bedroom. You can use a large garbage can or big wire basket to make it easy for your child to toss in pads, balls and bats when they come in the house. For children, sometimes it works best if you make a special area just for them. Try a bench for removing shoes and pads next to the container. Decorate with pictures or sports memorabelia to personalize the space.
-Revamp the closet. A lot of closets have one bar in the center and a shelf on top. Move the shelf up higher if possible. Store things that are hardly used up high. You can move the bar down closer to the floor for hanging clothes. Install a second or even third shelf above the hanging bar for games, folded clothes, toys and art supplies. Hooks or small bars can be installed higher on the sides for dresses, robes and longer coats. You may consider special childrens hangers to inspire you child to keep their clothing hung.

About the Author: Ron Maier is the owner of Only Kids Hangers, a leading provider of childrens hangers. The right childrens clothes hangers really make the difference in kid's retail or home organization. For more information, please visit www.onlykidshangers.com.
Each little change can make a big difference in your child's organization skills.

Motivation for your Kid's Organization

Kid’s closets can be a real challenge. They are usually crammed with toys and clean clothes that have been pulled down off of the hangers and mixed with the dirty ones. Kids are notorious for trying on a few different outfits before they decide on one, leaving a mountain of laundry in their wake. This can be very frustrating for parents that are just trying to keep their household running smoothly. There’s nothing worse than opening your kid’s closet and discovering that everything you hung is now wrinkled up in a heap on the floor, mixed with dirty clothes, and disguising all of those little pointy toys that you are sure to step on in your attempt to fix the mess. Enough is enough already. It’s time to get in there and make a change. Your goal now is to have everything that they need within their reach and create some sort of a system that they’ll be inclined to stick to. This can be a tricky task, but not an impossible one.

Kids thrive on motivation. Keep your child’s personality in mind when tackling their closet. What makes sense to an adult may not be sensible to a child. Simple decorations or signs can motivate them to follow instructions. Try putting signs or pictures that indicate clean or dirty clothes on small laundry baskets near the closet. If they try something on and can’t reach the hanger again, then they should put it in the clean laundry basket. If they wear something for any length of time, it goes in the dirty basket. Be creative by putting a picture of your child covered in chocolate or mud on the dirty basket and an opposing picture of cleanliness, such as a bubble bath photo on the clean basket. If your child thinks that the pictures are funny, then they’re way more likely to stick to the system.

The next step is to put a low bar for hanging clothes down on their level. It’s usually a good idea to keep a high bar for things that you really don’t want them to pull down, such as dresses or suits. Installing a low bar can give them the feeling that it is something special just for them, making them proud of having the responsibility of keeping their clothes on this special bar. Use a plastic shower curtain rod cover to make it a bright color. They’re very inexpensive and can be cut to fit any hanging rod. Dress it up and stress how it’s just for them. You can even get special children’s hangers for their closet. Color coordinated children’s clothes hangers can motivate your child to keep things hung in a color pattern, such as pink, purple, blue, pink, purple, blue. The idea is to make them think that it is fun. Children’s clothes hangers are now available in beaded versions, funky shapes and colors that can make your challenge a little easier. Have fun with it and keep your child involved in the activity. You’ll have a fun project, a little bonding time and maybe make your life a little easier in the process.


About the Author: Ron Maier is the owner of Only Kids Hangers, a leading provider of childrens hangers. The right childrens clothes hangers really make the difference in kid's retail or home organization. For more information, please visit www.onlykidshangers.com.