Tips on Keeping Your Toddler's Room Clean

No More Messy Rooms

Toddlers have the ability to tear a clean room down in just 10 minutes.
When toddlers play they forget all about organization and neatness, toys get thrown across the room, their short attention spans make them go through 1 toy every few minutes. It will be sometime before your toddler can clean up his room, and put all his toys away and it gets frustrating having to do the dirty work of cleaning the toddler's room a few times a day. I have included some suggestions below on how to limit the disaster of the rooms.

Place only a few toys out on the floor - it is best to limit the amount of toys that you let your toddler play with, make sure to keep other toys out of sight and out of reach to prevent your toddler from pulling them down and throwing them every place. Giving your child a few toys to play with at a time, gets your toddler used to the concept of neatness, and when it is time to put the toys away, your toddler might be able to do it because of the small amount of toys

Place toys in bins such as the Rubbermaid plastic storage bins and not around the floor- I got into the habit of placing a lot of my daughter's toys around the room, her baby dolls, stuffed animals, and books, and the room never stayed cleaned, the way I organized her room made it so easy for her to tear it down.

Purchase some plastic Rubbermaid bins and put toys in there, plastic Rubbermaid bins with the sealing lid are very spacious and better than toy chests, and hampers because they have a top that closes tightly and goes over the bin, making it hard for the toddler to access the toys and preventing them from throwing toys all over the room. Once you have put the toys in the bin, place the bin inside of a closet, out of sight.

Place a few books on a toddler book shelf or inside of a Rubbermaid plastic storage bin, if you decide to put books inside of the bin, then only take 3 -4 books out for your child to read.

Get rid of toys that are not touched- there are probably many toys stuffed in closets, and behind the bed, toys that are relatively new, if the toy is not played with clear some pace by getting rid of them.