| > | | | | drawer. But large plastic stacking containers |
| If you have kids, you've noticed how many toys | | | | have enough room for different sizes of |
| come with multiple parts. It's nearly impossible to | | | | construction paper and poster board, boxes of |
| keep track of them all. Even traditional toys, | | | | crayons, markers, colored pencils and paints, and |
| such as race tracks, baby dolls, or farm sets, | | | | the scissors that you can never seem to find |
| come with their own accessories. | | | | when you need them. If they're all in these large |
| There are several good choices of large plastic | | | | plastic containers, they'll be easy to find and |
| containers for these accessories. Stacking bins | | | | always at hand when you need them. |
| give you a handy place to store blocks, crayons, | | | | Storing Clothes |
| Legos, cars, baby bottles, and Barbie clothes. | | | | Parents are constantly dealing with kids' clothes. |
| Closed containers can be stored with games or | | | | You have to keep the right clothes out for the |
| activity sets and hold things like small plastic farm | | | | right season, but then what do you do with the |
| animals, Hot Wheels tracks, or the dishes that | | | | clothes for the off season? And kids grow so |
| came with the play kitchen set and would | | | | fast, they seem to grow out of clothes before |
| otherwise be lost for years at the bottom of the | | | | they have a chance to wear them out. What do |
| toybox. | | | | you do with all those clothes that don't fit your |
| Large Plastic Containers in Older Kids' Rooms | | | | children, but still have plenty of wear in them? |
| These large plastic containers can be great for | | | | Having a couple of large plastic containers in each |
| older kids, too. A large container is great for | | | | child's room solves those problems. When the |
| storing posters, for example. It can also be a | | | | weather's getting warm, put sweaters in a large |
| handy place to put all the sports clothes that are | | | | plastic container, and when it gets cool again, |
| separate from the general clothing population, or | | | | trade in summer's shorts and get those sweaters |
| musical instruments and all the supplies that go | | | | back out. Keeping the container in the room |
| with them such as guitar strings and picks or | | | | makes it easy to grab a jacket or short-sleeved |
| reeds for woodwind instruments. | | | | shirt for those days that are unseasonably warm |
| Art Supplies | | | | or cool. You can also take too-small items off |
| One of the best uses of large plastic stacking | | | | your child and put them right into one of these |
| containers is for art supplies. Without a | | | | containers for storage for a younger relative or |
| centralized location, art supplies end up all over the | | | | friend. |
| housepapers on the table, crayons in the | | | | Kids create a whirlwind of stufftoys, clothes, |
| couch cushions, scissors and glue lost in the junk | | | | supplieswherever they go. |