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XP from PS about toy rotation

m_and_mm_and_m
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Right now we have all of DD's toys sorted in bins by type- blocks, balls, dress up, dollhouse, puzzles, kitchen, etc. It was a massive undertaking to organize this, because we've never been good at rotating or organizing toys so we had 3.5yrs worth of stuff all piled together in various boxes...

Anyway, I'd like to start rotating what she has out. Is it better to rotate by type (ie, one week of building blocks, one week of kitchen play, one week of dollhouse) or to have a varied selection?

I'm afraid that if she only has one type of thing out she'll get bored*, but then on the other hand I don't want her to be looking for other kitchen toys if she only has a few of those available along with non-related items. I'm also pretty sure I'm overthinking this, lol. If it makes any difference, I also nanny a 2.5yo and 7mo at my house. There tends to be altercations between the older two when they want the exact.same.toy so we have multiples of a lot of things. 

 

 

*Awhile back I told her if she couldn't take care of her toys I was putting them all up. She was so <sarcasm>heartbroken</sarcasm> that she helped me pack them up and put them in my closet, lol. She has yet to be bored and there were literally ZERO toys out for about 2 weeks before she came to me and said "Mommy, I'm ready to take care of my things now." So my concern about boredom is likely unfounded. I've been giving her toys back a little at a time as she keeps them picked up, and right now I think there is probably a good amount available to play with so I think it's a good time to start rotating.
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Re: XP from PS about toy rotation

  • kiarox2002kiarox2002
    The main thing I rotate is blocks/ legos/ train stuff.  I don't particularly want to clean up a million blocks, a million legos, and a million feet of train track every night so I started only giving her one set at a time.  It's been great.
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  • HSartteachHSartteach member
    You've been to my house and have seen my toys.  I feel L doesn't have a lot (so far.) We really only rotate the puzzles.
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    We just started rotating toys recently (maybe 5 weeks ago?) and its been working out great.  I've left the blocks and legos out, the plan for now is to always leave them out since they get played with a lot.  On the kitchen stuff I took more than half out.  We left the trains out too (in a bin).  We had too many fridge toys too so I've been rotating those as well.  I left out all the strollers, shopping cart...  And then we've kept out about 5-6 other toys things like cars, planes, little people, puzzles, beads, pull toys.... really its just what fits on the expedit shelf (the blocks and legos take up two spots and that leaves 6 open spots).  I thought Megan would complain but I think in the last 5 weeks she only once asked where a toy was and when I said it wasn't out right now she moved on without a complaint!  Cleanup is sooooo much easier and the kids seem to play with things more that its easier to see what toys are out.  One tip that helped me a lot on the rotating out was not to feel like you have to rotate out all the time, and that if they aren't playing with something just rotate that toy out (i.e. don't feel like you have to rotate all toys out at once).  
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