Order in the Children's Room
How to create order in the children's room
If you want to eliminate clutter in the children's room and create order, you need a smart system and plenty of storage space. Easier said than done? Here you will find some tips and tricks to help you get closer to your dream of the perfect children's room.
Colorful and chaotic: the children's room... Especially small children need plenty of space to play and imagine, while older children rather need cozy privacy. But what about all the toys, scattered laundry, books, and school materials? How can you encourage your child to tidy up and keep things organized? To make children and parents feel comfortable in the playroom, we have put together some ideas.
Create free space
Chaos in the children's room arises when toys are not immediately visible or hard to reach. If it becomes too difficult for the child to reach something right away, the child will search – and this should definitely be avoided. Because searching for the favorite toy can create chaos by rummaging through cabinets, drawers, etc.
The simple solution: Pay attention to toys that are easily accessible and clearly arranged for both children and adults. A good trick to make the room as child-friendly as possible is to put yourself in the child's position. When you kneel down, you are at the child's eye level. This way, shelves, drawers, and storage boxes with frequently used items can be placed at the child's eye level and are easier to reach.
howa wardrobe for children's room – customizable
Let's take the wardrobe as an example. If your child – as is often the case in kindergartens – has their own wardrobe at eye level, it becomes natural for them to hang up their jacket here right after coming home. howa wardrobes for children come in 2 great designs, "space" and "rainbow." These can be personalized with the child's name.
Plan the room into thoughtful zones
Children need space to express themselves. It doesn't matter how big or perfect their little domain is, it just needs to be well organized. When planning, you should think about zones: the room should have areas for playing, learning, and relaxing, clearly separated and not mixed. This helps keep everything in its place. By the way, even the smallest space can be well divided with simple tricks: for example, homemade platforms or curtains that can separate niches are excellent for highlighting corners and angles. Or for cozy building. Changing the wall color also helps set such symbolic boundaries.
With a storage basket against the chaos in the playroom
Providing storage options ensures order in the children’s room. One advantage is portable storage baskets, with which you can quickly clear up the mess in the children’s room in the evening. The storage baskets are not only visually appealing but also perfect and easy for storing toys, stuffed animals, and clothes.
Storage baskets help children tidy up independently and find toys more easily. Open baskets have the advantage that their contents are clearly visible.
howa offers storage baskets for children’s rooms in various designs and motifs, available as sets or individually in the "space," "rainbow," and "be happy" collections.
Motivating children to tidy up
Children like to imitate what is modeled for them, especially by their parents and older siblings. So if you manage to show your children that tidying up and keeping things organized is fun, you’re one big step closer to the dream of a tidy children’s room. Of course, this only works if you convincingly demonstrate it to your child. As a tip, we recommend tidy-up games.
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Also, turning on their favorite music and having a tidy-up dance or ritual, When integrated into everyday life and imitated by children, it can motivate them to tidy up.
Without any pressure or coercion, children develop a positive relationship with a tidy room, where there is plenty of space for creativity, friends can come to play, and you can get out of bed at night without stepping on building blocks. Children learn and understand: It’s worth keeping things tidy.
