The playroom blues.

Organization and children are not two words many people may put together, still it IS possible to have an clean, well thought out and organized space when it comes to children's rooms.  

Seasonal events like Thanksgiving, Christmas and birthday time bring around that constant nagging to "CLEAN UP!" or following around their trail of toys, sports equipment and clothing trying to keep up with the mess. 

How do you help children organize their rooms and their stuff?

Here are a few secret strategies to calm clutter and bring order to kids' rooms. I'm not giving away all of my ideas.....that's why you need Sugar Fish Designs to come and help!!

1.)  Get down on the child's level, see what they see.

 Maybe they're not cleaning an area because it's overwhelming and hard to them to reach things.  Let the space fit the child, it's their little world, not ours. Make the areas simple for them to manage.

-Open baskets & bins

-Easy to reach shelving, not furniture that overshadows them.

-Don't have such huge expectations for them to keep the room perfect, remember they're still learning, not little adults.

     2.)   Label, Label, Label!

                               

       You know those auto labelers, where you type in a word and hit print and it prints out in a flash all neat and ready to stick somewhere? I could go crazy with one of those!!! Labels are the KEY to knowing where things are and where they go. For a child, labels can be as simple as they get without even using words.

- Take a picture or find one on the internet of the major toys. Blocks, trucks, books, puzzles, dress up clothing, etc. Laminate it (you can even use clear packing tape, it works great!) and attach to the box or shelf with velcro. This way you can change out the pictures as the toys change.

- As children get older label things with simple words. Books, Blocks, Dolls, Cars, etc.

this helps them still keep things where they go while learning how to read simple words!

Those are a sample of my many ideas for children's rooms!

Holidays can get overwhelming; traveling, relatives, children everywhere and all that yummy 

bad for you foods! 

But take a deep breath, look around at the chaos and know I can help you fix it.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM SUGAR FISH!!