Cleaning Children's Rooms

Here are some creative and fun ideas for motivating children to clean their rooms.

Make a cleaning map for a child's room, showing where everything is to be stored. Include items such as compact discs, shoes, books, stuffed animals and dirty laundry. Not only is this fun and educational, but the child also has no excuse about not knowing where to put away items.

Another way to help a child keep a room clean is to organize the room with bookcases, low shelves, CD stacks, colored plastic bins and dressers with a lot of drawers.

Avoid using a toy box. They just beg to be emptied. If toys are kept on shelves or in color-coded plastic bins, they can be located easily without a child having to dump everything out.

Keep a chore list in a child's room so they know what is expected of them on a daily or weekly basis. Daily items could include jobs such as making the bed and putting away toys.

Use an old pillowcase to store building blocks. Sew a drawstring around the pillowcase opening.

Turn a plastic milk jug into a storage container. Cut a hole in the milk jug on the side opposite the handle and a child can store small cars or action figures in the jug. Leave the handle on so it's easy to carry.

Store stuffed animals in a large plastic bin, which makes it easy to keep all the animals together.

Pack doll clothes and accessories in plastic zipper bags. This helps keep all the small pieces together.

Store toys on a shelf that the child can reach. Fill covered storage containers with toys and keep them on shelves.

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