Toy Storage Bins Buying Guide

Toy Storage Bins Buying Guide

Overwhelmed with your child's toys ? Then give toy storage bins a try. Toy bin organizer consists of shelves with different numbers or sizes of plastic toy bins.

Are toy bins for you ?

To answer this question, let's see the advantages and disadvantages of using toy storage bins to organize toys.

The main advantage of having a toy bin organizer is that it sorts your child's toys into compartments. As a result, the toys are more neatly organized. Other advantages include:

If the toy bins do not have lids, then it it easy to see the content of the bins. This makes the clean-up easy.
As opposed to the toy chest system , the content of the toy storage bins are easily reached and removed during play time. There is no need to dig and remove half of the toys just to look for one particular toys. This translates to less mess.

However, there are precautions you should take when using a toy bin organizer:

It is possible for your child to climb on the shelf of a toy storage bin. Make sure that your child understands that he should not climb the shelf and make sure that the shelf is sturdy.
It is recommended to use a toy bin organizer which has similar height to your child. This way, your child can reach the highest plastic toy bins easily so it prevents him from climbing the shelf.

What kind of toys is this system suitable for ? This system is suitable for a child which has a lot of small toys, such as: little cars, bean bag toys, little action figures, and art supply. It is not suitable for big toys.

Buying toy storage bins

Nowadays, toy bin organizer comes in variety of color and sizes. Some comprise of just 4 medium-sized plastic toy bins. SOme have 12 toy bins with different sizes. There are quite a variety in colors too. You will sure find toy bins with your child's preferred colors. It is a bit harder to find toy storage bins compared to toy chests locally.

But big toy store may carry them. For more variety, you may want to also check online stores.

Basically, there are two types of toy storage bins :

Toy bins with tilted shelf. This is the most popular kind of toy bin system. The advantage of this kind of toy bin organizer is that it displays the content of each bins right on your face since the bins do not have lids and they are tilted.

Toy bins with flat shelf. If you like this kind of organizer, you don't have to buy a commercially-made toy bin organizer. You can use any bookshelf or bookcase and put a variety of plastic containers on it. This way, you can use the higher shelves for books and the lower ones for the bins. However, unless the distance between shelves is big enough, your child may have to take a particular bin out in order to take out items from it. With a young child, this can potentially create a mess if the bin is not lidded and falls down. Therefore, I recommend to get the bins with lids and/or to get a toy shelf which has wide space between the shelves.

In addition, you may want to consider whether you want a mobile toy bins which can easily be moved from one room to another or a non-mobile toy storage bins. There are also toy bin organizer which has bookcases on top of it.

Happy shopping !

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