Updating the kidspace...

After discovering icky mould in Elijah's room I decided it would be a good idea to shift him out of there over Winter because not even the dehumidifier has managed to keep it away.

So I've set up his play space in the corner of the lounge after a bit of shuffling around.  This is about a third of his indoor toys - can you see why I get overwhelmed???  And yes those are dolls you see - two of them boys and one girl.


I also fell in love with Frangipani's natural play space so I've dedicated half a shelf just for wooden toys (he does have more just not pictured)


I also think Megan of Simple Pleasures is onto a good thing having a cupboard to hide her girl's toys and Clare of Green Valley Crafts has some beautiful handmade and thrifted goodies all carefully displayed on shelves.

Are you overrun by toys or do you have the perfect system?  I'd love to hear because quite frankly, we are drowning in toys!

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  1. Love his space :) Yep we are overwhelmed with toys, with 3 kids I have more than enough around here to set up a day care and then some.
    The dolls didn't stand out to me:) but that is because my boys have dolls and my daughter has cars aswell, I don't believe in gender discrimination when it comes to toys, if they ask for a toy that is marketed to the opposite sex I will get it for them (so long as it is their birthday or christmas)

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  2. I put coloured plastic drawers in my lounge for some of Cam's toys. Need to get another set then I think we will be ok :)

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  3. It's looking great Kelly! I have a clear out of my girls' toys every 6 months or so and take them down to the second hand store. The deal is that they can use some of the money made to buy one toy each from the second hand store. I also rotate the toys a lot. They get stored in our basement and I bring a different group of toys up every so often. We are still totally overrun though! My sister has a long low shelving unit that is full of buckets of smaller toys and the larger games and toys get stored in a closed cupboards which works really well for her. Good luck with the mould problem.

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  4. Toy storage is the bain of my life, I love what you have going on, I've been looking at those coloured drawer thingies for ages and can't find them.

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  5. Looking good. Funny how even if you are not buying many toys they just seem to accumulate anyway. I do a toy cull 2-3 times a year. This is our toy space http://seasidesiblings.blogspot.com/2010/02/place-to-play.html although it is not getting as much use at the moment with the weather getting cold, toys tend to get taken into the living room to be played with.

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  6. lots of people have 2 lounges, a formal and a family. i am not one of these people and find having jesses toys in the lounge something ive had to get used to. kids gravitate to the tv so our lounge is like central station and im constantly sorting toys. i like what youve done.

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  7. Hahaha, drowning in toys - yep, I think we all get that way!
    I've just had another massive cull of our kids' toys and passed on a bunch of things to a creche and people with younger girls.
    Man, it is so much easier to tidy up with less toys around!
    My friend meg, has a great idea that she uses to keep mess to a minimum and also to keep the kids interested in their toys; she divides the toys up into 3 lots and brings out one lot at a time, putting away the other two. then she rotates it after a while, when they've lost interest in them. E.g. 1/3 of the puzzles, 1/3 of the books etc.
    Her two boys share a small-ish bedroom and have toys kept in the lounge as well. But somehow she isn't drowning in them. I love her idea. :)

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  8. Yep - drowning in toys here too! I've just had a big clear-out and anything that hasn't been played with for ages or is broken has been chucked out and the toys that are in ok condition but haven't been played with in a while have gone into the garage for a while. I try to keep a minimal amount of toys in the playroon because I am easily overwhelmed when there is too much selection and so I guess the kids get overwhelmed by too many toys as well. Love the wooden toy shelf, what a great idea.

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  9. We are totally overrun by toys, and I often consider getting rid of 80% of my daughters toys because she rarely plays with them, and prefers to play with random things that aren't meant to be toys. At the moment her favourite things are rocks, paper & scissors and ballons. In an ideal world we would have a playroom with a huge closet where I could store the toys she is currently not interested in, so they can be bought out in cycles.

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