How to Organize a Child's Playroom

There are many reasons to have a play area in your house. One is that your children still need supervision while they are playing and their bedrooms are too far away from the common living room or family room. Another is that they have enough fun stuff that they need a play area or even room in the house to play with everything. For added tips check out How to Organize Toys.

Map out where you would like to have the furniture to house the toy storage and large toys, like a rocking horse, easel and table and chair set. This can establish the toy area outline. You don't want to completely make 4 wall or the toy area will start to feel like a jail cell to your little ones.

If your child also has toys in their room rotate them periodically, this will keep things fresh. This can be done easily when your child has a toy caddy or collasping cloth box, deciding what toys to swap can be something that you do together. Also if the play area is shared with another space consider keeping quiet toys in the area instead of the ones that make a lot of noise. This is great if the play area is near an area where mom or dad have to work or where they may be watching television. Try to keep the number of the same kind of toy limited, for instance your child doesn't need to have every single stuffed animal that they own within reach, keep the majority of them in your child's room or in the play area up high.

Make sure that the large pieces in the play area or playroom, play kitchen, table and chair, etc., have plenty of functional space around them. This way if the children need to open the a door on the stove they can do that easily and if they need to pull out a chair on any side of the table they can do that and easily sit down. For all of the chairs that a table set has that are extra you can keep off to the side until your child has guests. Encourage your child to donate the toys that they no longer play with periodically to help keep down on the amount of toys your child has and especially when they have an upcoming birthday or holiday where they will receive gifts. To continue to keep the playroom or play area organized do daily clean up, or more if you want, with your children and encourage them to put everything in its place. This will help your child enjoy the space more and help you with the clean up process all at the same time.