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Easy Organizing Kids' Areas Challenge

Modified: Sep 4, 2025 Published: Sep 27, 2025 by Sabrina Quairoli Visit our "Disclosure Policy and Cookies" page in the menu for details. This post may contain affiliate links. Leave a Comment

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Kids grow so fast through different phases and their spaces get cluttered with unused clothes, toys, and anything else that they may own. This month's organizing challenge is organizing kids' areas. Here are areas your kids may have piles of stuff. I included links from other kids organizing posts I created over the years. I recommend working with your child slowing through the different areas. It helps them with the process of letting go.  One to Two hours per session for each area for 10-12-year-olds is plenty of time.  The younger the child, the less time they can do.  Try splitting up the time throughout the day.

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  • How I Organized My Kids' Closets
  • Six Steps to Organize Kids Closets Fast
  • 7 Creative Ways of Organizing Your Kid's Closet
  • Kids and Baby Rooms Organization Tips
  • Small Nursery Organization Ideas
  • Easy Tips When Organizing A Nursery
  • Baby Room Organizing Ideas
  • Organizing a Teen's Nightstand
  • Organizing A Boys Room In Just Two Hours
  • Playroom (Toy areas) and Craft Room Organization Tips
  • Super Easy Playroom Organizing Tips
  • How to Make a Fabulous Kids Playroom
  • The Easiest Method When Organizing Lego Pieces
  • How to Make a Fun Kids Craft Room
  • School and Homework Zone Organization Tips
  • How to Organize a School Supply Organizer For The Home
  • Back to School Success for Families: Complete System for School-Age Kids
  • Before and After: Foyer Organizing Kid's Backpacks and Activity Supplies
  • 3 Important Areas To Get Organized BEFORE The School Year
  • Other Posts to Read to help with this challenge

Tip: Creating a "clean-up and get rid of stuff" game can be helpful.  Here are a few examples: Have your child look for 3 red items they want to get rid of, then have them pick up blue items to get rid of.  Alternatively, have them select five stuffed animals they don't like and ask who they'd like to give them to. Explain that other kids might not have these toys and would greatly appreciate them.

Kids Clothing Closet Organization Tips

Reminder: Take all the clothes out of the closet, and have your child try on the ones you are not sure if they fit.

How I Organized My Kids' Closets

Custom closets for kids seem like an extra expense. But it really is not when you want to keep your kid's small room mess-free. I'd like to share with you my experience of organizing my kids' closets using custom closet organizers.

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Six Steps to Organize Kids Closets Fast

It's springtime! The birds are singing, and the kids are playing outside. We have more time and energy to do different projects around the house. As every parent knows, the first place to declutter is the kids' closets!

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7 Creative Ways of Organizing Your Kid's Closet

Planning a child's closet can be tricky. For most people, raising a child is tiring enough, and after running around trying to keep up with them all day long, it can be exhausting to go through hundreds of tiny pieces of clothes and toys in an attempt to organize their closets.

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Kids and Baby Rooms Organization Tips

Reminder: Pull out clothes from storage and swap out the smaller clothes with larger clothes.

Small Nursery Organization Ideas

So, you are having a baby. Congratulations! While looking around your home, you realize you do not have significant places for everything a bouncing baby needs. In this week's post, we will talk about ideas for small nursery organization ideas. Come along and figure out what you need to make your small nursery wonderful.

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Easy Tips When Organizing A Nursery

Recently, I worked with a client who had just given birth to her second child. When she went into labor early, the room wasn't organized when the baby was born, so she became overwhelmed and called me for help.

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Baby Room Organizing Ideas

Baby room organization can be very overwhelming. For such little people, they have a lot of stuff. From storing diapers to "hand me down" extra clothes, several items need temporary homes. Organizing the baby's room will help get ready in the morning and make bedtime easier. 

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Organizing a Teen's Nightstand

If you have a teenager like I do, you know that they are really busy with friends, school work, and after school activities.  Organizing their room is the last thing on their mind. Steps on how to organize a teenagers nightstand Here is the before picture of my daughter's drawer.  

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Organizing A Boys Room In Just Two Hours

Over the years, I have written a lot about organizing kids' rooms.  Recently, I worked with a client to arrange a boy's room.  The room was quite a mess, and there wasn't a place for many of the things the boy played with. Boys' rooms are often easier than girls' rooms, but they still need

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Playroom (Toy areas) and Craft Room Organization Tips

Playrooms are great to have so everything can be in one area. Perferably if you can close off the area works better so it doesn't have to be cleaned very often. These posts below iwll help you get oragnized in your playroom. And, usually the craft area is in the playroom so I am adding my kids craft post below also. Reminder: Clear out any toys stored in the closets as well.

Super Easy Playroom Organizing Tips

If you have kids, you most likely have a room that looks like this.  Yes, it seems crazy, but you also know kids love to make messes. This project was done with a client. She thought we were only going to work on this room in the two hours allotted for the session.

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How to Make a Fabulous Kids Playroom

Children's Playrooms are so much fun to organize! They're one of my favorite places. There are no restrictions on how to do it, and kids are very flexible when it comes to their space.

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The Easiest Method When Organizing Lego Pieces

I get bombarded with Legos during the holidays. I found them everywhere: on the sofa, under the kids' sheets and bed, and in their shoes. The Lego pieces even get vacuumed up by the vacuum cleaner - annoying!   

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How to Make a Fun Kids Craft Room

If you have holiday family gatherings with kids, you most likely need to have crafts or something for them to do so they keep busy during family activities. If your kids enjoy art and you want to motivate them to unplug and help them create - a fun craft room can do the trick.

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School and Homework Zone Organization Tips

The next area to organize will be their school and homework zone. Reminder: Every child should place their book bag (affiliate) in the space place when they come home.

How to Organize a School Supply Organizer For The Home

Growing up, I constantly looked for school supplies around the house while doing homework. Pencils were never in one place, and scissors were never around when you needed them. When I had to do a project, it was always a mad rush to the nearby store to buy what I needed.

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Back to School Success for Families: Complete System for School-Age Kids

As a professional organizer, I've worked with lots of families to create systems that transform chaotic routines into smooth, stress-free ones. With back-to-school season upon us, now is the perfect time to establish the foundation that will carry your family through the entire school year successfully.

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Before and After: Foyer Organizing Kid's Backpacks and Activity Supplies

Like most parents, my kids are in after-school activities as well as activities during the school day, so to make my foyer a little neater and my kids' stuff a little more organized, I wanted to create a space for them.

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3 Important Areas To Get Organized BEFORE The School Year

While many vacations are happening right now, it's also a good time to get organized for back-to-school. To prepare you for the busy season of running around and helping your kids with schoolwork, today's post will discuss the three areas to set up to help organize the school year.

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Other Posts to Read to help with this challenge

Kids may not understand the needs and wants and why they need to purge things they do not use. If you struggling with explaining these concepts, feel free to check out my posts below.

  • How to Explain Needing and Wanting Something to a 7 Year-Old?
  • Talking with a Child about Purging and Organizing

I hope this helps you while organizing kids' areas. You are a wonderful parent for doing this with your child.   Let me know how it goes.

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