Top Kids' Closet Organization Ideas

It’s important to teach your kids to clean up after themselves and build good organizational habits. You can make life easier for yourself by organizing and setting up children's custom closets in a way that makes it possible for your children to keep them clean and neat.

• Think Like a Kid
• Choose the Right Hangers
• Make Use of Labels and Tags
• Don’t Forget the Toys

Think Like a Kid

Your child can keep a closet neat and tidy without you having to do a lot of extra work on it regularly – but for that to work, you have to set it up. Children have different needs, challenges, and thought processes than adults. They’re not going to keep their closet the way an adult would, and a closet designed for an adult is going to be a hurdle for them.

An easy way to consider your child’s needs is to bring the closet down to their level. Shelves and hanging rods can be positioned at a lower height so your child can reach them easily. This eliminates the mess that occurs when they try to pull things down from above their heads – or worse, climb to reach the higher-up items.

There are other factors to consider as well. Are the drawers easy enough for their smaller hands to open? You may need different ones. Is your five-year-old going to neatly pair and fold all their socks? Anything’s possible, but probably not. They can, however, have a designated basket to drop clean socks in – this keeps them off the floor and in one place, and that keeps the closet clean. Keep your expectations reasonable and consider your child’s abilities, then put closet systems in place that accommodate them.

Choose the Right Hangers

You shouldn’t try to hang children’s clothes on adult-size hangers. Most likely, the clothes will just fall off, but if you do force them to fit, you can stretch the clothes out of shape with the large hangers. Also, if you’ll have a hard time keeping kids’ clothes on larger hangers, you have to assume that your children will have an even more difficult time. According to Mighty Moms, kids whose clothes are in the 0 to 3-year-old range need 10” hangers, the 3 to 8-year-old age range need 12” hangers and the 9-year-old to early teenage range needs 14” hangers.

Flat hangers are the best choice for saving space, but certain types of clothes, such as dresses and suit coats, need contoured hangers to support them and keep them in shape. For the best closet organization, it’s best to stick with hangers that are as uniform as possible. Make sure that you choose hangers that are designed not to allow clothes to slip off – your kids are unlikely to hang their clothes perfectly, at least at first, and a no-slip design makes it less likely that the outfit will wind up on the floor.

Make Use of Labels and Clothing Tags

Labels and clothing tags can help your child navigate their closet without making messes and without too much trouble. Instead of setting clothes out the night before or frantically trying to choose an outfit in the morning, put a week’s worth of outfits together, each tagged with the day of the week they’re assigned to. That way, there’s no worry in the morning – your child can just grab the outfit that they’ve already agreed on for that day.

Do you want to teach your child how to put their outfits together? Create labels for tops and bottoms, using different shapes to demonstrate what matches. A top with a star can be paired with a bottom that has a star. A bottom with a square goes with a top that has a square. This will allow your child the freedom to pick out their clothes, but with a structure that prevents them from looking mismatched.

Labels can be useful in other places in the closet as well. You might label a basket that they can use for outgrown clothes, a box of hair accessories, or a bin full of sweaters. Once again, cues like colors and shapes can help children who are too young to read. The idea is to make sure they know what containers are for and what they hold so they don’t open and rifle through them needlessly – they can choose the one that has what they want inside.

Don’t Forget the Toys

One big difference between children and adult closets is that children’s closets tend to store toys as well as clothes. This is a difference that may make it particularly hard to keep a child’s closet clean, as the toys are meant to be taken out and played with.

Try storing toys in clear bins that make it simple to see what’s inside. That way your child doesn’t need to dump it out to find out what’s in it. You can also try to keep types of toys separated – stuffed animals in one bin, blocks in another, action figures in a third, and so on. Make toy clean up part of the daily routine. Have your child do it at the same time of day every day to help build a habit of straightening up at that time. 

Conclusion

Kids’ closets can be kept neat if the closets are kid-friendly. Bring the closet down to their size and install features they can use and save space and help them learn to hang clothes with the right hangers. Use tags and labels to help your child navigate their closet and don’t forget to incorporate toy organization into the closet plan.

Source

• https://www.mightymoms.club/review/kid-hanger/