How to Choose and Use A Toy Hammock

But, before you buy a stuffed animal hammock, there is one thing you need to consider: the amount, size and the weight of stuffed animals your children have. If your child has a couple of small stuffed animals, then stuffed toy hammock will be a good choice because it will be able to hold these toys, it'll look pretty in the room, and it uses spaces high up on the wall which otherwise would not have been used. Remember, in order to be able to use this storage system effectively, most of the stuffed toys have to be small although I guess you can still squeeze in two or three medium sized stuffed toys. Having said that, I think, if your child has, say more than 20 small stuffed animals, then please reconsider your decision to buy a toy hammock, even when it says it is a jumbo toy hammock. The word 'jumbo' is only meaningful in terms of the size. It doesn't say anything about its strength. If the toy storage hammock is not strong enough to begin with, then it does not matter whether it is a jumbo toy hammock or not. We find that the weakness of a stuffed animal hammock lies on the fact that it is something to be hung on the wall and is not because of the nylon net or nylon mesh giving away. In other words, the limitation lies on the hook.

That's why I personally prefer to use shelves like I describe here to store large amount of stuffed animals. Toy shelf will definitely hold any amount of stuffed animals I put there ... with size limitation, of course.

Anyway,if you still want to buy this, here are the kinds of toy hammocks available today:

• Stuffed animal hammocks with two hooks and loops. These toy hammocks come with two loops at the end. Just put two hooks at two adjacent walls, and hang thehammock. Sometimes this kind of stuffed animal hammocks has stretchy elastics at the side of the hammock which is a good thing since they help to contain the stuffed animal in the hammock.
• Stuffed toy hammocks with three hooks and loops. This type of toy hammocks is more sturdy than the ones which have two hooks and loops. In addition, it contains the stuffed animal better. Basically, you put two hooks at two adjacent walls and one at the corner. The nylon net itself is shaped like a triangle with a loop at each end. Hang this triangular hammock using those three hooks.

Finally, I want to give you one more tip before you buy any toy storage hammock. If you are planning to buy the hammock online, make sure you mention to the vendor what color you want for your stuffed animal hammock. Don't assume the vendor is going to give you a white hammock like the one shown at their website. After all, you don't want to get a pink stuffed animal hammock for your boy, do you ?

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