My daughters toy tower sits nicely right at the end of the bed in her room and mainly held a jumble of different toys. There was jigsaws, stuffed toys, and
generally things that my daughter never thought about on a day to day basis.
I decided that it should be sectioned and labelled so it
also made things easier for her to put things away and also to find what she
wanted. After deciding what to put in each drawer (together and after a few
disagreements with a 5 year old) we sorted what we wanted to put in each drawer. We
decided on these categories
- DVD's And Remotes
- Beauty
- Baby Doll Items
- Dress Up
I got some PINK labels made up with pictures and words. She is starting Primary 1 in August so I want to teach her to coordinate these words with the items I suppose. I printed them out on glossy photo paper and stuck them on with ordinary Pritt Stick so if we need to change them around with other toys it is easily removed and is easy to clean off if labels aren’t required anymore.
We then popped everything inside the drawers.
Her DVD’s were sorted out and remotes were put in here
with her notebook…. She’s a budding list maker like her mummy.
She really enjoyed helping me out organise her toys and
went on a hunt to find other items that she had lying around in her handbags
for her beauty drawer
And got all her baby dolls (named Janessa. Origin=unknown) things
and put them in the baby dolls drawer.
And we put her dressing up clothes, shoes and handbags
in the bottom drawer.
I definitely have a budding organiser here and future
heiress to the blog.
Getting her involved helped her to feel part of what
went on in her room and since she is Miss Independent, and her mothers’
daughter, she didn't feel shocked as when I un-expectantly change something
when she is at nursery.
What ways do you involve your children to feel involved and teach them to organise?
