10 Steps Towards Having an Organized Kids' Closet

Having a larger closet means that you may have the space for extra hangers, and might be lucky enough to fit all of those items — including next-size-up pieces — on a single rack. Divide current sizes from future sizes by using simple designators that help keep things in their place or use different colored hangers for different sized clothing. You can also help kids keep closets orderly themselves by using rod dividers to designate areas for pants, shirts, dresses, etc.

If two or more siblings share a closet space, use an assortment of colored hangers to differentiate which articles of clothing belongs to what child. It makes it easier for you to keep the clothing in order and makes it easier for them to learn to dress themselves and put clothing away.

For our tween daughter, we keep a small assortment of lesser worn styles and next-size-up basics readily available in her closet so she can easily rotate new items whenever she wants. She can grab these independently, without having to dig through bins in the basement and they don't take up much space in the closet.

Also sorted into bins in the basement is a generous collection of hand-me-down and next-size-up clothing. Sometimes, it’s so big we can’t imagine our children ever fitting into them, so it doesn’t make sense to keep it cluttering their bedroom closets. Cleaned, dried, and folded neatly, we use plastic bins that are clearly labeled with size detail (and the name of the child they’re for) so that it’s easy to size-up wardrobes in the future.