Picking up toys….

I have dd5, ds6, dd6m.

We have an ikea expedit.

1 cubby of trains

1 cubby of blocks

1 cubby of cars/tractors (anything with wheels)

1 cubby of random, ball gloves, musical toys, dinosaurs

The other 4 cubbies are books (only pre k picture/ short story books) no board books or chapter or school books

1 sterilite of food toys next to the litte kitchen, we also have a tool bench with all the tools, but only one is out at a time

1 big sterilite of dress up

I made a “train table” it is a 2’x4′ piece of plywood that I glues felt to the top of and screwed 1″x2″ along the top to make edges. It has wheels and goes under the bed. The Legos stay on here. It is amazing! We can wheel it through doors to other rooms and if we are mid project it can be rolled under the bed for later.

Our kids share:

1 under bed tote completely full of Legos

20 stuffed animals

1 basketball, 1 football

1 small bucket sidewalk chalk

Ds10:

2 Nerf guns, nerf sword, shield

10-12 matchbox cars

1 bucket of soldiers

2 Transformers

Stop motion animation camera/kit

Dd9:

1 “pet dog” (electronic)

1 Jessie doll

1 play mat with horses

1 small drawer of dress-up stuff

They play together 80% of the time with Legos. Dd doesn’t enjoy playing with toys by herself, so she rarely asks for toys. Ds is all boy, so he has to wait for a friend to come over or for Daddy to play with the Nerf guns, swords, and shields because she refuses to play that with him. Her dress-up stuff isn’t clothing; it’s gloves, tiaras, bracelets, etc. If she wants to dress up, she will put on one of the dresses in her closet and accessorize. Weather-permitting, they will ride bikes or scooters, of which they each have one.