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What, it would seem, is bad when children have a lot of toys? And the fact that they are scattered throughout the rooms and their owners do not really like to collect them. Proper storage of toys in an apartment or house is a guarantee of order and tranquility (mothers in the first place), because even simple maintenance of order in this case is a task of increased complexity. It can and should be made easier. To do this, you will need furniture for children’s toys – racks, shelves or a cabinet, as well as a decent amount of boxes, drawers, bags and pouches.
Furniture for storing toys in the nursery
Furniture in the children’s room is needed from the first days of life. And most often it is a chest of drawers and a rack. Only at first they are mainly occupied with linen and children’s clothes, and toys take up little space. But gradually funny things – rattles, bears, cars, baby dolls, etc. becomes more and more, they require a separate place, and sometimes more than one.
The most convenient option is a rack. Not a cabinet with doors, but a rack with open shelves on which boxes can stand. Storage of toys in this form is optimal – and it is convenient for the child to get them and put them away quickly.
At first, you can buy or make one rectangular rack and preferably with square cells. Now you will understand why…
While the child is small, it can be put “lying” – as in the photo, with the long side on the floor. So it is more convenient for a small child – he will first master what is below, then move on to the upper shelves. And it’s safer – older children can use the shelves as a ladder, and in this position they won’t climb high))
In a couple of years the child will grow up, there will be more toys. You can turn the rack over and put it “in height”, and install a second one or make shelves in the vacant space. By combining several racks of different heights, you get a children’s toy storage system.
You can gradually increase the volume: buy a single rack or, as they used to say, a bookcase, then another one. The beauty of the nursery is that they do not even have to be the same color. And if you care – paint them or choose a neutral color “under the tree.”
How to organize toy storage: ideas
In the racks, you can put different boxes-boxes into which to unload small and not very toys. Immediately note that wooden boxes (or made of plywood, chipboard and other similar materials) for young children are not the best option. They are too heavy, children often injure their fingers when trying to get toys. They also have hard traumatic corners, which can, of course, be rounded a little, but they still remain hard. These boxes are suitable for students. They already have more strength and better coordination. And storage of toys for kids is better to organize in softer and less traumatic plastic containers / baskets or in tight boxes covered with colored paper or cloth.
Buying or making furniture for a wound is not so difficult, but teaching a child to put his toys there is a more difficult task. For girls, the rack can be designed in the form of a house. Then she will resettle the “tenants” herself and create conditions for them.
With boys, this option will not work. They usually have a lot of cars and the main task of storing the boy’s toys is to arrange the cars. To do this, you can make a whole wall-mounted garage. These are long narrow shelves, on which the entire fleet is located. Other options are transparent fabric pockets (sold as shoe storage systems) or a shelf assembled from plastic pipes.
To stimulate the desire to “drive” cars into the garage, you can make markings on the floor with masking tape, according to which “after the shift” they drive into the parking lot.
In principle, such pockets can be used to store collections of dolls and soft toys.
When there is no longer enough space on the shelves and racks in the nursery, more ideas are needed. In addition to pockets, you can make drawers (large) under the bed or table.
So that everything does not lie in bulk in large boxes, you can put plastic baskets under small things. So everything will be found faster than in the general heap.
Boxes can be installed in racks not only on shelves: it is possible to hang them. To do this, grooves are cut out in the side walls, into which the sides of the baskets and baskets are simply inserted. You can take plastic baskets (if you find them with sufficiently rigid sides), or metal ones – from the wardrobe or wardrobes.
The largest free surfaces in a room are the walls. And they can be used. For example, attach a strip of Velcro to the wall (side wall of the cabinet, lamp shade, etc.). Sew small pieces of such a ribbon on the backs of soft toys. They are easy to put in place and take off. And the decor at the same time will become more diverse.
On the walls you can hang mesh planters made of wire or plastic. In them, too, small dolls, bears, bunnies or cars are wonderfully located.
You can also borrow an idea from the kitchen: attach different bags to a horizontal pipe. To make the necks stiffer, you can tighten them with a hoop or sew in an elastic wire.
Pockets are also made on wooden bases. It can be cut out of plywood, painted, nailed on a few hooks, pockets and pouches. The mini toy storage system is ready.
But not everything can be attached to the walls. Some things require baskets or boxes. For example, sportinentary – all balls, balls and other shells. They are conveniently stored in wire bins.
If desired, baskets can be attached to the walls and trained to hit the ball into the basket (away from breaking objects and windows).
Storage of toys from the category of “cheap and cheerful” – folding cloth baskets. Of course, they are inexpensive, they look good, but they tear very quickly. Especially mesh ones: the toy caught on, the child pulled it …. a hole.
No matter how hard parents try, children do not really want to clean toys. Or rather, they don’t want to. In this sense, just the perfect bag-mat.
This is an ingenious solution: a “wall” is sewn along the edge of the round rug, a small “wall” is sewn along its upper edge, a drawstring is made into which the cord is threaded. To remove the toys, you just need to tighten the cord. The edges of the rug will rise and the rug will turn into a bag.
Then these bags can be placed somewhere near the wall or hung on special hooks. Really perfect choice.
DIY toy boxes
Looking at the not at all childish prices for cute wicker or plastic baskets in stores, you think that the idea of uXNUMXbuXNUMXbmaking colorful toy boxes with your own hands is not so bad. You will need cardboard boxes made of thick (not corrugated) cardboard, most likely from under household appliances. You can try your luck with friends: many manufacturers provide warranty repairs only if they have packaging. That’s where people keep the boxes. The warranty period has long passed, and they forgot to throw away the packaging. These boxes are the best option for a child.
Another option is to ask at department stores. They also often receive goods in rigid packages. For example, diapers, napkins, etc. come in these.
We paste over with paper
From the found boxes we cut off the lid. In the side walls (narrow) we cut holes-handles. We glue all the joints from the inside with adhesive tape.
We take multi-colored paper. Wrapper is perfect for wrapping gifts. It is dense, there are a large number of different patterns. You can also use scrapbooking paper. If the finish is made of paper of different colors, we cut it into strips of equal width, if we paste over with one pattern, we measure the strip along the height of the box.
We take glue (PVA), brush the surface of the box with a brush and start gluing from the corner. We try to glue without bubbles, smoothing the paper gradually, from edge to edge. We put the next sheet with a slight approach not the previous one. So, until we paste over all the surfaces.
Looking at the light, cut out the handles with scissors. To make the edge more accurate, we glue the cuts of the handle with a thin strip of paper. We also make out the upper cut with a strip.
We sheathe with fabric
In this case, all corners of the box can be glued with adhesive tape on both sides – it will last longer. Next, take the fabric and cut out two sets of blanks according to the size of the box. One is strictly in size, plus an allowance for seams, the second is 1 cm smaller and also with an allowance. We add 0,5-1 cm to the seams on each side. You can cut the workpiece immediately in the form of a cross, but this way the fabric consumption is greater – it is more economical in separate pieces))
We sew the details first in the form of a cross, then making a bag out of the workpiece. Trying on a box. One (larger) is pulled on the outside, the second is straightened inside.
Now we take universal glue and glue the fabric around the perimeter of the bottom inside and out. Then glue on the corners. So the fabric will not move.
We turn the edges of both bags inward, sheathe the box around the perimeter by hand.
Cut out the handles with scissors. Just don’t cut big pieces. It is necessary to leave about 1 cm of “extra” fabric. We wrap it inside, hemming the handle.
Having issued the handles, we get a ready-made box for storing toys.