https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 08 May 2026 03:37:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739786 Thu, 25 May 2017 00:18:24 +0000 autumnlove 2739786@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They only keep their favorite stuffed animals in their room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739784 Wed, 24 May 2017 23:29:31 +0000 ALV91711 2739784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 4 and after Christmas I was sick of looking at all his toys. We don't have a playroom so I cleaned out his closet and put one of those shelves with bins in there. Sometimes he will play in his room and other times he brings a bin to the living room. We also have a shelf in the dining room for his games, puzzles, colouring stuff etc. </p> <p>I think with siblings it would be nice to have some of their own toys in their room, things that are more like collections or have small pieces. Then they can decide when they want to share. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739758 Wed, 24 May 2017 20:32:18 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 2739758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a playroom but do allow some toys in the bedroom since it's inevitable that they end up there. We manage the number, though, by providing a limited amount of storage up there and enforcing a rule that nothing too big comes upstairs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739753 Wed, 24 May 2017 19:56:22 +0000 Mrs.Pinecone316 2739753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have 95% of the toys in the play room, then I will bring a few down and rotate them in the great room so she has stuff to play with when we are downstairs. Her bedroom we have a reading nook/ book shelves. I try and keep her room the calm and peaceful place for reading. She is two and loves books more than anything so it works for us. I didn't want her bedroom to be only for sleep but didn't want it to be a cluster either.. But I don't have any rules that she can't bring toys out of the play room. I am still picking them up all over the house but playroom is their home base. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739331 Tue, 23 May 2017 20:33:10 +0000 travellingbee 2739331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Legos, books, and stuffed animals are in the bedroom and everything else is in the playroom. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739322 Tue, 23 May 2017 20:20:09 +0000 LemonJack 2739322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD is only 3 so she doesn't spend a ton of time in her room alone, but we do have a few toys up there. She has a bin with stuffed animals, and a couple of fabric boxes in an IKEA organizer with a few toys in them; blocks, dress up clothes for her few dolls, and a couple miscellaneous toys. She honestly ignores most of the toys and just goes for the books. Anything we thought she'd get really distracted by we kept in her playroom. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739119 Tue, 23 May 2017 13:41:52 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2739119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just recently got a three sprouts soft toy box with a lid a few months ago for her bedroom. I have two play zones in my house, one on main level and one in the basement. Right now there is a bin of stuffed animals, a bin of books, and a box of random toys that I thought she might enjoy in her room-stacking cups and buckets, shape sorter, ball popper. She's 19 months. We're about to switch rooms and in her new room will be a little chair for reading, stuffed animals, a box of books, and another toy chest for whatever toys I want up there. I think it's important to have your own space in your bedroom for toys and quiet play time. I know people may disagree and say a bedroom is justfor sleeping, but sometimes you just want or need alone time and it's nice to be able to give your child that option of their own safe space with some privacy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739102 Tue, 23 May 2017 13:29:14 +0000 erinbaderin 2739102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Each boy has one of those Three Sprouts bins in their room but they've only got stuffed toys in them. They're only 3 and 1, though, so they're not really doing much playing unsupervised, and we mostly only spend time upstairs right before bed. Once they get bigger I'm sure we'll end up needing some sort of storage/organization system for each of them for toys. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739096 Tue, 23 May 2017 13:26:34 +0000 ShootingStar 2739096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a play room and right now there are no toys in DS's room except for stuffed animals he likes to sleep with. In DD's room there's a box of baby toys that just haven't made their way down stairs yet. It's helpful having toys in DD's room because I sometimes need something to occupy her while I pick out her clothes. </p> <p>DS doesn't ever play in his room though, so all of his toys are in the play room. But DD has been getting into his toys more (she of course wants whatever he's playing with) and they're not always great toys for a baby. If he gets upset I ask him if he'd rather play with that toy in his room where she can't get it. So far he'd rather be where everyone else is and either put the toy away or let her share it.</p> <p>I did have the same thought about choking hazard toys, that we could put them in his room. But instead we ended up putting them away for now and he hasn't seemed to care. It's kind of nice that if I'm in DS's room I can put DD down and not worry that she's going to get into dangerous toys. But if he had gotten really upset that we took away all his Mr. Potato Head pieces (and everything else) I would've offered it. But again, he's pretty social and doesn't want to ever play alone. Plus he has a thousand other toys, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739089 Tue, 23 May 2017 13:17:10 +0000 PinkElephant 2739089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: This is kind of what I'm thinking - things that would qualify as a "collection" I'd be fine with having in the room. Things she "works" on, like markers/paper....fine. But probably not big sets of magnatiles, play food, dolls, etc.</p> <p>@catgirl: Right - I think that having some kind of separation for "big kid" toys would be good...as well as giving each of my older girls (5 and 3) a way to take ownership of a few of their own special things. There's a lot of squabbling going on these days! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739077 Tue, 23 May 2017 13:08:52 +0000 catgirl 2739077@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For now we only allow books and stuffed animals in her room. We don't let her move toys around the house, they stay in our living/dining room area. When she is older I can see allowing certain toys in her room, especially if we have another LO. It would be a way for her to have "big kid" toys in a safe place. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739073 Tue, 23 May 2017 13:06:58 +0000 looch 2739073@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only have one kid, so technically our entire house is his playroom, but in all seriousness, I too tried to establish the rule that all toys should be in the playroom. As he got older, some things migrated to his bedroom, such as his collection of Hot Wheels cars and I just kind of got over my rules. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739071 Tue, 23 May 2017 13:03:34 +0000 snowjewelz 2739071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have a play room, but our living/family room is her play space so all toys are there. I choose not to keep any toys in her bedroom so they don't distract her; the only thing she can do in there besides sleeping is read. She's 2.5. I think once she is done with naps, I wold be okay with keeping some quiet toys for quiet time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/toys-in-the-bedroom-when-you-have-a-playroom#post-2739056 Tue, 23 May 2017 12:50:33 +0000 PinkElephant 2739056@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you have a dedicated playroom, do you allow your LO to keep toys in his or her bedroom? If yes, which ones? Is there any rhyme or reason to which toys are in the bedroom, or does LO just move toys from room to room as he/she pleases?</p> <p>I'm reorganizing a bit this week to make room for the baby to have a crib (ie, a safe place to play) in my big girls' playroom. In order to do so, I think I either need to move some of their toys up to their rooms (which might be nice for quiet, individual play), or start rotating some of the bigger pieces into the basement (I already rotate small toys by stashing them in the big IKEA wardrobe in the playroom). When we moved, I established bedrooms as toy-free zones....the only thing up there is a few stuffed animals. However, as my girls get bigger, I think they appreciate the space to play by themselves without their sister messing with their stuff.....and I think it might be a good solution for keeping small, choking-hazard type toys (I'm looking at you, Shopkins and baby Calico Critters) off the playroom floor and away from the baby.</p> <p>Would love to hear what others do! </p>