mom tip # 3

Having a hard time getting your kids to clean up their rooms or toys? Make a game of it. We recently invented a game called "I found the last toy!". Here's how we play, we start in one room and start picking up and putting toys away quickly seeing who can find the last toy in the room. The rules are simple, all things must be put away in their proper place, no pushing each other out of the way to get a toy, and whoever finds the last toy wins! Every time we play this game the kids whole room gets clean even under the dresser and beds! Once you get started as you're putting the toy away say, "I found the last toy!", someone else will find another and announce the same thing until all the toys are cleaned up. It's actually a lot of fun!