Monday, December 15, 2008

Choosing Children’s Clothes Hangers

Choosing the right children’s clothes hangers for the child in your life can be difficult. There are so many designs and materials to choose from. Does it really matter which one you pick? Yes, in fact it does. There are a few things to consider when looking at all of your children’s clothes hanger options.

Kids’ clothing costs a lot. They outgrow everything so fast that you end up buying a new wardrobe every season of the year. The last thing you need is to have to buy more due to damage by shotty hangers. Investing a small amount in some high-quality childrens hangers can not only save your child’s clothes, but keep them in great shape for resale or hand-me-downs.

Tiered hangers are great for saving space and also for having complete outfits ready at a moment’s notice. A five tiered hanger is great for getting school clothes ready for the week. Kid’s clothes are so much smaller than adult’s clothing, that you can easily hang five pairs of pants from the waist on a five tiered hanger. The child can reach up to the pants and pull them down all on their own. The hanger will not break or go flying, causing a hazard to the child and other garments. The clothing will simply slip out of the clips and the child is proud of getting ready all by themselves.

Wooden hangers for children are always a beautiful addition to the closet. Wooden hangers are very beautiful and durable. Smooth finishes will keep clothes from snagging, while rubber or foam grips will keep the clothes from sliding off. Wooden hangers can be monogram stamped and personalized with your child’s initials or other emblem. Wooden hangers are great heirlooms and also make uniquely useful baby shower gifts.

Glam hangers are really fun for a child’s closet. These hangers are beaded and come in a variety of colors. Color coordinating the closet with the rest of the room is a fun and exciting activity for you and your child.

If you opt for plastic or acrylic children’s clothes hangers, make sure that there are no sharp edges or seams that you can feel. These can cut little fingers and also snag expensive clothing. Make sure that you get a heavy gauge plastic or acrylic so that the hangers cannot be broken very easily. You do not want the hangers in the closet to become a hazard to the child.

Keeping in mind safety, style and how well the hangers protect the clothing will help you make the right choice when you are buying childrens clothes hangers.

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.

Labels: , , , , ,

Monday, January 14, 2008

My Kid's Cool Closet

Sometimes your kid’s closet can be a nightmare. Kids are notorious for destroying the things that you would like to keep organized. If you’re looking for an interesting kid’s closet idea, then you’ve come to the right place. There are all kinds of organizers out there that can help your kid keep it together.

Start by giving the entire closet a make-over. This can be something that you do with your child. Make it fun! Encourage your child to pull everything out and completely empty the closet. Painting the inside of the closet can make it more interesting for your child to keep things in there. It may sound silly, but personalizing a small space for your child can help them to feel more special and involved. Let them pick the color. Even if it’s something wild, most people will never see it, so let you child be creative. Validating their choices is the first step to developing self esteem.

For children in school, a daily organizer can be fun and encourage them to take care of their things. This also makes things easier on you. You can help your child lay out school clothes for the week. It’s another activity that you can do together on a regular basis. Make sure that socks, underwear, pants and shirts are all in the cubby for the day that you’re planning. You may even check the weather together beforehand and ask your child to make informed decisions about what to wear on what day. Take every opportunity that you can to teach your child and encourage independence.

Another good idea for creating a fun closet is to get a hanging clothes hamper. These are really lightweight and don’t take up any space on the closet floor. Dirty clothes have a special place to go that’s fun and interesting to a child. They come in a lot of colors and some are available with characters. These are great for teaching small children where dirty clothes should go. For girls, you can also install a hair accessory organizer. This is a fun way to keep up with all of those hair ties, bows and barrettes. Most kids like having little special cubbies for each of their things. Shoe pocket organizers can also be used for hats and gloves.

Top it all off with some special interesting hangers that are made just for kids. They’re available in all sorts of interesting shapes, sizes and colors. You can even get glamorous beaded ones! Every little thing that you can include in your child’s closet to make them feel special is going to boost their self esteem and encourage them to stay organized.

Make the whole closet make-over a joint effort. Ask lots of questions and validate your child’s choices as often as possible. Decorating a closet together is a unique way for you to bond. You don’t have to spend a lot of money on the project, just keep encouraging your child to come up with new ideas on how to make the closet special. You’ll have so much fun together and your lives will become more organized 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.

Labels: , , , , , , , , , ,

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.

Labels: , , , , , , , ,

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Centrifugal Clothes Hangers

Fun with old wire hangers is never ending, which is in even better excuse to replace your childrens hangers. Cleaning out one person's closet can provide wire craft supplies for an entire class, some silly crafts and some educational. Wire hangers are excellent for learning about the scientific principles of centrifugal force and centripetal force, or, the laws of circular motion. That is, those forces acting on a mass that is in a circular arc or rotation. The concept of these forces is not easily grasped without some sort of demonstration, but a simple clothes hanger, along with a coin will do the trick, and this experiment is a blast for the kids.
Once you have collect enough coat hangers for each child, instruct them to bend the triangle portion of the hanger into a square. A great way to describe this is to have the children imagine the hanger is a bow with an imaginary arrow. If they hold the point of the triangle, which has the hook, in front of them and pull the middle of the long side if the triangle back, like the string of a bow, this will create the fourth point of the square. Once they have done this, they should lay the hanger flat and make sure it is now in the shape of a square.
The next step can also be completed before the project begins. The tip of the hook should be filed flat. Some hook tips may already be flattened, but others are cut unevenly or might even be sharp. Once the hanger is bent and the end of the wire is flattened, the fun begins. Show the participants how to hold up the hanger using one finger at the corner, which is opposite the hanger hook, and then take the penny, or other coin, and balance it on top of the hook point. If you are skilled and careful enough, you may then begin to spin the hanger on one finger, and the coin will stay balanced on the hook. It can even become a competition to see who can spin the hanger the most number of times without loosing the penny or even spin the hanger with the most number of balanced pennies.
The penny is held in place by the laws of circular motion. A centripetal force directs the penny toward the center of the rotation, and the object is met by an equal centrifugal force that is directed outward from the center, pushing the coin back onto the hook. Make sure that the point of the hook points back to your finger and that the hanger is flat, and this a great way to learn something about circular motion. Actually feeling these forces in their own hands will make so much more sense than a verbal explanation, and it is possible with the use of a recycled wire hanger.

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

Labels: