How to Use a Hanging Shoe Organizer for a Barbie Collection
Organizing is a good skill to learn at any age. Children, once they learn how to fit shapes together, can often surprise you with their ability to organize objects. If you encourage this capacity, your children are more likely to know how to put toys away when they are finished playing. Many toys, such as Barbie dolls, have lots of accessories and children often develop collections. If you purchase a hanging shoe closet organizer when your child has two or three dolls, she will quickly learn how to sort and store her dolls to easily find each doll's special accessories. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Hanging shoe organizer
- Barbie dolls
- Barbie accessories
- Zip-close plastic bags
Instructions
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Install a hanging door organizer with plastic sleeves over the inside door of your child's closet. Position the organizer so the bottom few rows are within easy reach and the upper rows are less accessible.
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Sit down with your child and sort out her Barbie collection. Position expensive dolls that may not be opened or are kept for special play times in the higher pockets. Involve your child in identifying and sorting the pieces.
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Allow the child to pick out the placement of dolls in the lower rows. Each pocket can hold two to three dolls and their accessories. Place the small pieces in small zip-close plastic bags. Encourage the child to keep all of the accessories for each doll in its own bag and to place those bags with the doll inside the hanging organizer.
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Place a bowl in the child's room in which to place Barbie toys she discovers as she learn to clean and organize her room. Every evening, spend a few minutes seeing if the child can sort and put away what's in the bowl. In this way the child learns to value the organizing process and to enjoy being able to easily find and put away her toys.
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Tips & Warnings
When the Barbie collection nears the capacity of the hanging organizer, place a donation box in the child's room and once a month take the donations to a donation drop box with your child so she can learn to moderate the size of her collections.
References
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