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Organizational Strategies

Sat, 2006-02-11 19:08 — Rashlien

I was wondering what other homeschoolers do to keep organized. My kids are still young, but I still want to keep everything organized. I think they have more toys than I ever had.

I feel like I'm cleaning up room after room all of the time.

Thanks,
Rashlien

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Tue, 2006-02-14 02:45 — Rashlien

Those are great suggestions

Thanks for all the great suggestions.

I bought some plastic bins today and sorted through my kids toys. My husband thought that was great.

Wed, 2006-02-15 04:22 — Rashlien

Hanging Stuffed Animals

I read somewhere online some other organizational ideas. One of them that was interesting to me was taking stuffed animals and sewing a loop onto them so you could hang them up. Has anyone tried this?

I like the idea, but I don't know what I'd hang them on to make them look in order. With all sizes and types of stuffed animals. Any ideas?

Wed, 2006-02-15 12:51 — Rashlien

Good Ideas

I like the brace idea best. I think I'm going to try that. Thanks.

Wed, 2006-02-15 11:46 — 2Trouble2

Mobiles or Shelf braces

You could also make mobiles. Similar to what you used to hang over a baby's crib, but this time from a rack. Going with the idea or a coat rack or what about those metal shelf braces? The kind that you have a wall attachment and can move the shelf brace up or down within that section. You could use the shelf braces to hang the stuffed animals.

Wed, 2006-02-15 04:56 — Alexis

Re: Hanging Stuffed Animals

What about using a peg board or a coat rack? If you use a coat rack you could put different levels by using more posts and place different sizes of animals all the way around it.

Mon, 2006-02-13 22:12 — Alexis

In the Kitchen

My mom and I organize our shopping and cooking by doing once a month cooking. We cook or prepare all of our meals one day and then my parents and myself take turns cooking them each night.

It's fun, because my mom and I spend time together making the meals and my dad and I have fun cooking them later on as well.

Mon, 2006-02-13 00:49 — 2Trouble2

Organizing Toys

I've read about it quite a few places and I like this one. When my son was younger I rotated the toys. I kept different toy sets in plastic containers and pulled different sets out once or twice a week. The toys that were not being used were in our basement.

Now that my son is older I don't rotate the toys anymore, but I still try to maintain organization by keeping everything separated and kept in plastic bins. He tells me what toys I should put up on the high shelf in his closet, because he doesn't play with them much anymore.

We also try to go through his toys once a year to either trash the broken ones or give them to the family rescue mission.

Mon, 2006-02-13 23:32 — GreenT

Some more suggestions

I would suggest keeping toys in reach of your child (on low shelves) so they can take them out and put them away without you having to put everything away for them all the time.

Mon, 2006-02-13 23:15 — Alexis

Other toys suggestions

For all of my doll clothes my mom made a big bag that would open up flat. When we needed to pick up the clothes I would pile them in the center of the flat sheet and then there were two strings to pull that would close the sheet around the clothes making it a bag again. We would hang that in my closet.

I think this would work for anything that doesn't matter how it gets put away (like dress up clothes or stuffed animals).

Sat, 2006-02-11 21:09 — mDad

Moving Woes

Since we move a lot we scan most of the kids work into the computer, if it was not done on the computer already. We store it like a scrap book. Some items we continue to take with us. We store them in some plastic storage bins. We keep it for mementos mostly and don't have to unpack it or repack it everytime we move.