Organizing Kids Toys

Toys are the equipment of children's business, that of play. But how to minimize our work in getting them picked up is the trick.

• Remember that horizontal storage is better than vertical for toys. Small items get lost and sometimes broken at the bottom of big chests. Build shelves of bricks and boards, but not so high that there's danger of their toppling.

• Sew loops on stuffed animals and hang them on pegs for neatness, or attach an inexpensive fishnet to the wall to give stuffed animals a cage.

• Other toy organizers can include a small suitcase, an old mailbox, a bassinets, laundry bags hung from wall hooks, baskets attached to the wall, fishing tackle boxes, stackable vegetable bins, even a plastic dish drainer for books and records.

• You can also attach strips of velcro horizontally on walls and sew or glue the other piece on toys, so your child can just "stick away" small toys.

• And finally, you can store toys in plastic clothes baskets, which even a small child can pull from room to room for playing and, hopefully, for quick pick ups.

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