Check that toys made of fabric can be washed. Watch for Toy Dangers Sharp edges and sharp points. Toys for older children may have sharp points or edges that can hurt a small child. Avoid toys made from thin plastic that can break easily. Also avoid giving toys with metal parts to toddlers and babies. Small toys and toys with small parts. To prevent choking in kids 3 or younger, make sure that toys and parts cannot fit inside an empty toilet paper tube or a choke tube.
Check stuffed animals for eyes, noses and parts that can come off. Put small toys and toys with small parts out of reach when young ones are around.
Loud noises. Read warning labels for how to use them safely. Try toys in the store to check how loud they are. Cords and strings. Toys with cords or strings longer than 7 inches can be harmful for babies and very young children. Never hang toys with strings, cords or ribbons in cribs or playpens.
Remove crib gyms when your child can pull up on their hands and knees. Toys that fly or shoot objects. These can badly injure the eyes. Avoid toys that can fire things not made for use in the toy, such as pencils or nails. Arrows used by children should have soft tips made out of cork or rubber. Have your child wear safety glasses if you allow them to use toys that shoot objects. Electric toys. Toys that heat up are all right for children older than 8 years when used with an adult.
Avoid fixing or making electric toys yourself. Make sure battery-operated toys have a cover that closes with screws to keep the batteries secure inside the toy. Toys with magnets. This can cause injury or death.
Young children should not play with toys with magnets. If older children play with toys with magnets, warn them not to put any magnets in their mouth. Remember that the best way to protect your children is to watch them while they play.
Keeping Toys Safe Store toys in a safe place. If you have a toy chest, it should have air holes and be easy to open from the inside. Check that the lid has a support that will hold the lid open in any position. You may want a lid that comes off completely.
Better yet, use baskets or boxes without lids to store toys. Check toys often for damage. Watch for splinters or sharp edges on wooden toys. You probably have no idea how many toys you actually have! Just think for a moment. Would they fill up an entire room? Now, I realize that asking children to help you choose which toys to keep and which toys to get rid of may be a risky venture.
Depending on the ages of your children this may be a great opportunity to teach them about generosity. If you know that the toy situation is out of control and you want to get a handle on it, now is the time! Of course now every time they see them sitting in the spare room they decide to play with them. Trying to keep them out of sight out of mind until I can get rid of them is tricky. Yes that is a great point! Sometimes bagging them up and rotating them actually gets them played with and out of sight :.
I have 6 children from ages 9 to 2. I rotate toys every 2 months. It keeps everyone intrigued an occupied. My four boys are harder to occupy than my girls.
But this trick works!! I love your blog! HI, Thanks for sharing. This is so helpful. I come from a family of pack-rats, my husbands family is the opposite. Its hard to maintain a healthy safe environment I want for my daughter while having so many things in the house, so this is ever so helpful to help downsize everything in general by using guidelines.
All your thoughts and work put into your post is greatly appreciated! Thank You! Hi Melodie, thanks so much for your comments : My husband and my family are the opposite of yours! Most of our toy overflow situation comes from gifts from generous, well-meaning relatives.
Has anyone found a solution for this, other than to grin and bear it, and rotate toys? I suffer with the same guilt, girl. That toy has already fulfilled its purpose in the moment…the giver received joy from giving it. It can be released! This is a great plan that I will be implementing! Thank you! Hi, I just done this about a week ago. I discussed this with a friend of mine and she told me that she purged all her daughters toys using the garbage bag style. She asked her daughter to sort out toys and put them in black garbage bags to store them in basement.
She then took the opportunity to take a look of the stuff that her daughter put in and let them there for a week. She then waited for trash day and took all stuff out early morning with the other garbage for collection. This is what I have done and it really works. You know that what your children do not want is meaningless to stay there.
Then you need to be a mean mom and chuck unwanted stuff out. Sometimes we keep on rotating and storing toys for noting. When children loose their interest in them, its difficult to ask for them again. And most of the time you need a lot of effort to sort load them and take them to charity, and then you realize than the majority of them are thrown out. Hence might as well toss the unwanted stuff in garbage and take them out of sight as quick as possible to avoid changing minds.
A friend of mine suggested that it is more convenient to do the big purge before children stop from school before the Summer holidays. She would be alone purging stuff that her children are no longer interested in and make sure that is out for garbage collection before they arrive back. My son is turning 2 this month and I have 3 month old twin girls.
I want stuff that the girls will eventually use as well. What have been your family favorites? Educational toys are gender neutral. Puzzles, fine motor skilled activities, books, play dough, paint, and coloring books. Hi Rachel, love your blog. When i try to involve her in throwing out the toys that are like for 3yr olds and she will tell me that she no longer play them… but she can relate back to a time where we used to play it together she is the only child. I used to spend time playing with her.
She is able to evoke so much emotions and memories with some of the toys and i grew all mushy inside and decide to keep the toys. Take poctures of you and your daughter with the toys. Write down the memories of the play times in her lovely words and then scrapbook the memories. Toss the toys. I was having a chat with a friend of mine and said that she tossed toys in clear bags, and while sitting on the curb for garbage collection, they were taken by someone else.
Creating a routine with the kids reinforce the idea of keeping toys, books and craft items where they belong. At the end of the day parents and children have to work together to make it happens until its comes naturally. I have some kids organizing rooms tips Thanks for these great tips!! It really relieves the guilt that you are not just throwing them out but giving them to underprivilaged kids who will appreciate them!
As a husband it feels like my wife is holding on to all the toys. I practically have to throw toys away behind her back.
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