This is the one wall of my playroom with the 'floor toys' - its an older photo and some of the bins the kids put back backwards but only one I could find without my crew 'in' the photo that I could crop to share ... organization wise my key is everything has a home and every home is labelled with a photo both on the shelf and on the bucket it belongs in - the labels slide out so I can change and rotate the toys as needed and just slide in the new photo of the new item and store the photos of the previous toys with them in their storage container for my closet.

So I do to not care how much they take out as long as it is being USED in their play and the floor does not become a tripping hazard of 'abandoned toys' than we do a two second tidy to get it 'safe again' and they restart their play. If a child is dumping and walking away just for the sake of 'dumping' they get sent right back to 'tidy up the tripping hazard' and reminded 'toys are for playing with not for dumping' ... if they are playing a game of dumping and putting it back than I let them 'play' that game though cause the baby likes to do this but when he crawls away if he has not 'tidied it up' he too gets sent back to tidy it up.

When playtime is over the playroom goes back together like one big gigantic puzzle and everyone helps to put it everything in its 'home' so that they can find it again another day.



My outdoor shed is organized the same way - every bin is labelled on the shelf for easy to find for me and easy to tidy up at the day ... helps to teach the children to respect their environment and it also helps to reinforce that being 'organized' helps to create calm in ones self - cause when they cannot FIND something they need for play they get frustrated and grumpy about it and I always remind them 'well sorry you are frustrated but that's because you or your friends did not put it back in its HOME last time so you will have to look for it' and they hate wasting their playtime trying to find things ... so over time they grow to be a little OCD with the whole everything has a home thing and will even tell their PARENT if they try to put something away 'wrong'