9 Toy Storage Hacks That Will Save Your Sanity

If there's one piece of furniture that can improve a playroom stat, it's a cubby complete with baskets. There's a reason so many of our favorite kids' rooms have Ikea's Kallax bookshelves. You can store books and larger toys on the top shelf and have your mini mes store smaller items in the baskets below. The best part? Kids can reach everything, which means they get to pitch in at cleanup time.

Make putting their toys away a breeze by labeling plastic bins using dry erase markers. It takes less time than making full-on labels and means the bins can be reused once your little ones grow out of whatever's inside them.

Sure, over-the-door shoe racks are great for footwear, but they also make amazing storage options for anything you're sick of tripping over. Throw their Barbies, Hot Wheels, or train pieces in there at night and you're good to go.

Using plastic bags to store toys with small pieces does double duty: you don't have to worry about losing pesky puzzle pieces, and it takes up far less room than the bulky box it came in.

Sick of constantly stepping on Legos or Playmobil characters? Give them each their own dedicated space by repurposing a sewing organizer.

You know those oddly shaped trucks and blocks that never seem to have a home? Pick up a few kid-proof wicker baskets and store them on shelves or in a closet.

Organize things like beads and doll accessories in an egg carton and put the days of crawling on the floor to look for that missing whatchamacallit behind you.

These gigantic catchalls are just as convenient as they look. Simply spread it out and play right on top of it, then pull the drawstring to close and hang it when finished.

Get all that messy paint, crayons, and markers off the floor and put away by attaching towel racks to the wall and hanging metal containers from them so every item has a home.