5 Reasons to Rearrange the Playroom
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This past weekend I got the sudden urge to rearrange the playroom. Maybe I’m nesting! I decided I had plenty of good reasons to do so so I’m sharing with you 5 reasons to rearrange the playroom!
1. To purge.
Let’s be honest–this is the main motivator for me. I can and have easily filled a trash bag full without my kids noticing. This happens a few times a year!
I don’t throw away perfectly good things just for the sake of purging but I’m talking happy meal toys, broken toys, things with missing parts, stuffed animals that have been left limbless by our dog…etc. There are usually toys that can be donated as well.
2. To organize.
I love when my kids participate in clean up. Lord knows it doesn’t happen often. When they do, it’s hard for me to watch them putting everything in the exact opposite place of where it belongs. Toy food is tossed in the dress up bin, toy tools go into the oven. You know what I mean. And as long as it’s up off the floor this really doesn’t matter.
But eventually the room is so unorganized they can’t find what they want–so a good rearranging of a few things is a great time to organize toys with strewn about pieces.
3. To get rid of bugs.
Maybe it’s just at my house, but if I move a couch or chair or toy box, there is a good chance I may find a dead lady bug or moth or little web or whatever tucked away in that back corner. I love rearranging a room and having the chance to deep clean all the areas that had been impossible to reach for forever.
4. To inspire play.
There is something about cleaning and rearranging a play room that instantly makes toys appealing to kids all over again. That truck they’d been stepping over for the last 5 weeks becomes a highly coveted item if moved to the top of a shelf on the wall where the play kitchen used to be.
I don’t fully understand this phenomenon but it’s true. Try a little change up in your playroom and your kids will be drawn to it!
5. For you.
Despite some downright glamorous options on Pinterest, playrooms are not often that appealing. Even cleaned up, it’s still basically a large area of brightly colored plastic clutter. I like rearranging ours every year or so for me!
Just like adding a new lamp or art work in the rest of the house is something I enjoy, I also like a visually pleasing playroom if I can swing it. Rearrange it to suit your needs as well, especially if your kids prefer you’re always in there with them. Including a couch has been a wise choice for us as parents!
I recently did a little switch up in the playroom and we all love it!
Before:
The above shot is pretty cleaned up compared to the norm, but our boys needed more room to run around!
On a messier day, you can see that the whole room was a tripping hazard and really didn’t mix well with their constant need to rough house. They were always crashing into the train table and stubbing toes.
After:
Thank you Aldi for that under $5 red bucket to corral random toys. It was in the before version too but now moved away from the door to prevent that overflow of toys the second you walk in.
Yes they dig through it and dump stuff out in a second but it’s fairly easy to dump it right back in.
Yay for a couch in the playroom! Sometimes mom and dad and our old joints keep us up off the floor–ha!
The inside of that play kitchen is the best storage. I use it for blocks, books, shape sorters, tools, play food. Just give everything a little box
I pulled this rug out from Tom’s old room. Since we cleared out the train table the boys now have a big soft place to play. I mean wrestle.
The boys have had this giant DIY busy board for years and lately they don’t play with it as much. Stuff just starts to blend in to their surroundings I think. We moved it outside and it was all the sudden the best thing since sliced bread!
I’m so happy with our “new” playroom and think I’ll keep this layout for a while! Soon enough baby number 3 may want to be hanging out in there in a jumper or other large baby contraption so we have plenty of space now!
If you feel like your playroom has started to feel a little stale, try the easy trick of moving a few things around and your kids will likely flock to it!
