Comments on: Decluttering and Organizing Children’s Toys http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/parenting-family-bliss/decluttering-and-organizing-childrens-toys/22430/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:46:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: se7en http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/parenting-family-bliss/decluttering-and-organizing-childrens-toys/22430/#comment-16833 se7en Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:39:18 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/?p=22430#comment-16833 I am so with you on the clean up at the end of each day - we actually have a fifteen minute clean up before every meal... It sounds a bit mad - but otherwise the mess becomes too overwhelming to play in and then it spreads further and wider or squabbles begin as they become more stressed for space! We curbed our chaos to se7en basic toys, and they usually play with two or three of them every day: http://www.se7en.org.za/2008/07/31/se7en-of-the-best-toys And then se7en toys with little bits, like puzzles, that they play with at the end of the day while I cook - but only if everything else is tidied up, these I rotate almost weekly... http://www.se7en.org.za/2008/09/14/saturday-spot-the-bread-bin I am so with you on the clean up at the end of each day – we actually have a fifteen minute clean up before every meal… It sounds a bit mad – but otherwise the mess becomes too overwhelming to play in and then it spreads further and wider or squabbles begin as they become more stressed for space!

We curbed our chaos to se7en basic toys, and they usually play with two or three of them every day:

http://www.se7en.org.za/2008/07/31/se7en-of-the-best-toys

And then se7en toys with little bits, like puzzles, that they play with at the end of the day while I cook – but only if everything else is tidied up, these I rotate almost weekly…

http://www.se7en.org.za/2008/09/14/saturday-spot-the-bread-bin

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