Playroom update

You know what is even more exhausting than having a toddler? Having a toddler with toys! Some days I just feel like getting rid of all of them and giving her a stick to play with, except she would probably just whack me with it, or poke her eye out, so maybe the toys are safer.

I've been working on re-doing the playroom since it first became a playroom. It's a never ending transformation. So far this system seems to be working (although I have tweaked it since taking these pictures)

 This is the first happy toy area. Bigger toys go on top where she can easily access them, and I can easily put them away. One cubby contains books for her (she also has a bookcase in the other room). The "ball basket" is an Ikea 4.99 laundry basket, and the other fabric boxes are from The Dollar Store.

The second happy toy area is a work in progress. This was before the work lol. Basically I took a bunch of bins from The Dollar Store and am separating her smaller toys into the bins. Each bin now has a labeled lid. It's perfect because she can see the toys, but can't quite get the lids off, so it's harder for her to scatter her toys to the wind.

Small container #1 (Also from The Dollar Store) is for all of her flash cards. She has actually managed to go through an entire set of animals (matching picture with sounds even) and then she also has a set for food. Mostly she likes looking at the pictures and playing with the cards. 5 packs of cards fit into one container. This is much better than acting as a second carpet. We have another e of those boxes for her puzzle





We also have a second box for her puzzle pieces. She loves doing puzzles but have you stepped on a puzzle piece? Those suckers hurt. This way they are nice and contained. She usually likes to do all the puzzles at once anyway, so I just help her sort them into the correct puzzle zone.

                                                                                                             



This was also a happy solution. It's also an Ikea product that was (I think, $2.99). We use it to hold her growing collection of stuffed animals. It hangs onto her changing table which is currently in use to hold her bigger stuffed animals, more books, and more storage containers.