Hack for toys and messy house

If you have little ones, you know how much of a suffocation hazard plastic bins and plastic bags are! Here is my hack to keeping a clean play room and make cleaning up so much easier for kiddos as well as keeping their playroom organized. Mesh laundry bags for the win! We have them put all their big toys in a toy box and anything that has little pieces go in a mesh bag together. I color with permanent marker on the outside of the bag what's in it and the kids can pull the bag out of the toy box of the things they want to play with. They take the bag to their play area and unzip and play, then they put everything back in the bag. I can lock the bag of things they have lost privilege of playing with. We have mr potato head pieces in one bag with the potato head, paw patrol action figures in another bag, duplos in another bag, markers in another bag (I can lock the bag up so they have to bring me the bag to get it undone which forces them to ask for permission before using them.) Both my kids are under 4yo and haven't been able to figure out how to get past the lock. When I was teaching them to clean up their toys I had all the bags locked and they couldn't get another bag unlocked until they cleaned up the other bag. My 2yo used to just dump everything out and not play with it so this keeps all the pieces contained and prevents the dumping, especially since she liked to play with the containers they were in. Because they are mesh, they are not a suffocation hazard.
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I have small bags for puzzles and those fine motor skill toys as well that never seem to keep the pieces together.

When it's time to clean up, they take the bag and carry the bag with them, put all the pieces in the bag and zip it up. My kids are more likely to clean their toys because it's not a bunch of traveling back and forth and not as overwhelming for them they have a target toy group instead of an overwhelming mess. Also, everything goes in the toy box so there's not a bunch of containers to store. They pull out the bag and it has all the pieces right there instead of having to dig through the toy box to find the pieces to the toy they want and making a mess in the process. If they do dump out the toy box, it's easy just to throw the bags back in the toy box instead of a bunch of little pieces.

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