How many toys Does your preschooler/toddler have downstairs?

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I am sitting looking at a living room floor pretty much covered in DD (age 3) toys.
I think maybe some of them need to be returned to her bedroom but her room is far too small to store all of them.

Would like your opinion/advice on:

1. whether you think she may have "Too many" if they won't fit in her room.

1. Do you keep some of the toys downstairs all the time?

1. Potential storage.

1. Is your living room floor covered in toys a lot of the time?

Would be interested to hear from other mums/dads
TIA.

I have 4 dd's of 10,6,4,3 and they all have their toys upstairs in their bedrooms, they bring some down during the day but take then back upstairs in the evening.

DS2 is 3 - he has a room full of toys upstairs and more toys in the guest room/playroom next door. He has a load of puzzles, arts and craft toys and books downstairs - kept in cabinets in kitchen/living room. He also has some ride on toys in the lounge and some magazines that I chuck into the magazine basket periodically. Other than that his toys are mostly upstairs - but they often graduate downstairs with him and get returned up to his room at night time.

In his room he has a big tub for soft toys, three boxes for books/toys and a storage system with canvas baskets from GLTC.

Kids like to be where you are - sometimes DS2 will play in his room by himself but often he wants us near him - so I accept that the kitchen/living room floor will often be covered with toys and just incorporate 10 minutes of tidy up time with him each day...

DD has allher toys in the living room in those trofast storage drawers from ikea. She hasnt got any toys in her room except for the cuddly toys she sleeps with.

No my living room floor isnt always covered in toys but that is becasue of the drawers before they used to be. Now DD gets what she is playing wth out and then puts it back before getting anything else out and she does it on her own without help. She is just turned 4 and I love it so I can be lazy

My DS's room is too small for toy storage, so we use one of the reception rooms as a playroom (plus dining and guest room!). We have an Ikea Expedit shelf unit and baskets for storage, plus other miscellaneous items (rocking horse, ride-on cars) strewn about. We always clear the toys off the floor before bedtime.

I have a double cupboard in the front room full of toys, baby toys and jigsaws as I won't let puzzles and games go upstairs to get lost. Another one in the dining room full of 'craft stuff'. Some 'big toys' behind the sofa in the bay window. Baby Goo has one storage box in her room and DS has 3 or 4.

I can hide it all, so I don't think there is too much. DS is trained to put one toy away before he can have something else. Baby Goo can have whatever she wants out, but it only takes 2 mins to shove it all back in the box.

Almost all of DD1(3.4) & DD2(10m)'s toys are downstairs. They have a few bits upstairs, but I prefer them to play downstairs (where I can see them), and I think bedrooms are for sleeping in, not playing in IYKWIM?

I rotate their toys. The ones that are "out" live in one corner of the living room (4 storage boxes & one of these sets of drawers) The ones that aren't in use are in a cupboard in the dining room. If they want something "big" out (e.g. train or farm set) then we bring it out, but it gets packed away again before they go to bed.

Longer term, I don't think this is going to work. We are probably going to have to give up on having a "dining" room & turn it into a playroom, or possibly turn the garage into a room for them to store all their stuff (not sure where DH would put his junk then?!!)

interesting - I don't think at 3yo that my DS should have many / any toys in his bedroom. We only store his books in there. His room is for sleeping.

We have a small toybox in the lounge for the assorted smaller plastic crap and some bigger storage boxes for train set, duplo etc.

Just before Xmas when DD was 4 y & 9 months old we moved all her toys into her bedroom. Before that they had always all been in the livingroom.

I would like her to play sometimes in her room but it rarely happens.

I nanny or 1 4 year old.

DC has all toys upstairs in their room. They can bring toys down to play with downstairs but it's all tidied away after playing with it. We have a basket which bits and bobs can be put in but they go upstairs at the end of the day.

In their room we have a toy rack which holds books, and several boxes of toys, also have a toy bench which has storage in it and then a couple of big plastic boxes under the bed.

Dd (20 months) has a small cupboard and a toybox in the kitchen for her toys. There are also a handful in her bedroom, mostly soft toys. She doesn't have much stuff. I think it would do my head in if my living room was full of toys.

Downstairs toy kitchen and food etc, pushchair, cosy coupe car! Box of duplo, box of brio.
Upstairs all other toys, which are rotated with down stairs toys.
Arts and crafts in craft room.

We are lucky we have several reception rooms one of which is child / toy free.

Small children need toys around them and need to play near or with you so some of it will inevitably be down stairs.
As they get older it will mainly go upstairs and will come down, go back up daily i would think.

If she is three i would be rotating her toys to keep them fresh, under bed storage or on top of wardrobes if your short of space. Personally i am a fan of open ended toys. duplo, brio for example can be played with for hours different every time, easy to tidy.

Too bloody many.

Our living room is large and DD's room is small so most of her toys are kept downstairs but all tidied away in open storage boxes and on shelves so it's not messy. To be honest I don't mind having her toys down here; it's nice and they'll be a time when toys are replaced with her books and gadgets and music so...

Thanks for all the replies,
I have cleared out a drawer for some of the smaller toys so it makes it a bit easier to tidy away.

DD's room is about 6ft x 4ft so doesn't have a lot of space at all.

A bedroom 6ft x 4ft? Whoever builds miniature homes for families should be reincarnated as a battery hen.

I feel a bit sorry for her because her room is one of the smallest in the house (the bathroom is the other small room). The rest of the house is quite big.

At the moment all of the pre-school toys are downstairs except a few cuddly ones which are in 14 mo DC3's cot. DC3 and 4's room is only just being decorated so things will be a little better when it is finished. They will also have the smallest room, but I think it will be a good few years before they use it for more than sleeping and storage.

I have a massive wooden chest in the front room, which was my old toybox, it doubles as extra seating. Normally all downstairs toys would be chucked in there out of sight, but at the moment we also have two ride ons, a rocking thing, a big box of vehicles, a garage, fire station, rocket and farm. It looks like a toyshop window.