How do you teach children how to be tidy?

[GrouchyKiwi]

I'm drowning in mess, which is of course worse since Christmas.

I get the children to tidy up (aged 7, 5 and 3) and in a day or so it's back to being a tip again. I can't cope with it, and I don't know how to teach them to care about keeping things tidy. Their toys keep being stood on and broken.

It is, of course, made worse by the fact that we home educate, so they're home during the day as well, and spend a LOT of time creating lovely artworks/cutting up paper/decorating the floor with oddly-shaped confetti.

Please share your best tips.

It was Adam Smith who spoke about the division of labour and boy was he into something.

We have something like 4kg of Lego spread across the floor every friggin day.

The only way to get our lot to tidy up is to go full PARTY MAD and get them to tidy the Lego by colour to a soundtrack of Avicii and Public Domain.

It works.