Posts Tagged ‘kids clothes’

January 4th, 2010 Organization of Baby Clothes and the Kids Clothes All in One Space

Author: Kimberly Green

The secret to surviving parenthood is remaining organized. You lose your organization, and you’re up a certain creek without a paddle. By yourself you may be okay floating about, but toss in a husband, a few kids and a pet or five into the mix, and you’ll find yourself trying to go in eight different directions at the same time. But if you organize every aspect of parenthood, down to the little things like your bathroom cabinet and the baby clothes in your baby’s bedroom, then you’ll find that the process of getting through each day will be just a little smoother.

There are several different options for organizing baby clothes and kids clothes. The standard is to use a dresser, or a chest, or a combination of both. For our children, we organize our daughter’s kids clothes and our son’s baby clothes by usage and season. The top drawers contain pajamas, socks and undergarments (onesies for our son, undershirts and panties for our daughter). The middle drawers contain shirts appropriate for the current season, and the bottom drawers hold shorts or pants and coordinating outfits. We have one miscellaneous drawer that contains sweaters, hoodies, scarves and other things of that nature.

While traditional methods as a means of organizing baby clothes and kids clothes may work for some families, others may want to try a different approach. If you have a large closet, or one whole wall that could be converted into a closet, consider creating one of those complex closet organizers that provide a place for everything. There should be an area to hang clothing from, drawers, nooks, shelves and cubbyholes.

For everyday organization of clothing, particularly baby clothes and kids clothes for busy children who may not always be able to choose just one outfit, consider one of those hanging seven day clothing organizers. These hanging columns hang from a closet shelf or rod, and there are seven slots or nooks for each day’s clothing to be placed in. This eliminates the stress and hassle of trying to pick out an outfit last minute on a school morning, or right before a big event.

How you ultimately choose to organize your baby clothes and kids clothes is up to you. The secret is to choose an organizational method that works for you. You’ll also want to break down how things are organized and put away with anyone who may be helping you with your babies and children, and as they get older, the children themselves.

November 27th, 2009 Making a Tote Out of Kids Clothes

A great project for children is to make homemade bags out of old clothing.  This make for very creative gifts.

Here is a great project that will make for a very creative gift…a homemade bag out of an old pair of jeans.  First you are going to need those old pair of jean…the ones that no longer fit anymore or perhaps the ones that have that hole in the knee.  You want to make sure that you zip up and button the pair of jeans before you begin.  Put the jeans inside out and sew the leg holes together at the crotch.  You can either do this with a sewing machine or you can hand sew it with thread or even decorative and colorful yarn.

After you are done sewing cut off the legs of the jean and turn the pant back right-side out. You can then put a decorative and colorful belt in the belt hoops and then you have a little bit of a handle for your tote.  If you would rather you can even create a strap for the tote using the material from the legs that you cut off.  And you can also take out the zipper and sew it closed.  You can then decorate the bag with buttons, rhinestones or fabric gels to make it more interesting.  A child can have a lot of fun doing this part.

Making things out of old kids clothes is a great way to teach children never to waste anything and it can be a lot of fun for both you and your children.  This tote can have many practical purposes too.  This can be a great tote for groceries, which is a great way to help the environment eliminating the use for plastics and paper bags.  Or perhaps your child can use this tote for that overnight bag to a friend’s house.  You can also personalize it and give it to your teacher making it a great holiday or end of the year present from your child to their teacher.

This is a great project to spend quality time with you children and make use of all those beautiful kids clothes you never really wanted to part with! Not only that but this is so easy you really do not need to be an expert seamstress to get this done.  The best part is that these recycled clothes bags are machine washable and are very cost effective.  So, if you are on a budget, as most people are these days, then this is great and a very frugal way to save money as well as staying very trendy and chic.

Author Kim Green hated the thought of having to part with some of those trendy pieces of kids clothes she had bought for her kids. This idea has enabled her to keep the clothing she really loves!