Tonight I wanted to share our toy bucket system. All of our toys are either just on the shelf (like blocks and doll houses) or in those white buckets. If you look closely at the photo, you may be able to see the green or yellow or red dot sticker on the photos. All of our toys have one of those dots. Green dot toys are usually a quieter toy or one that is easy to clean up. Yellow dot toys are still not too messy but the kids get a bit wilder and then the red dot toys are crazy people toys. When the children get time to choose toys, we usually say something like "yellow and green toys only", or " you can play with green, yellow, or red right now". The children know which toys are available to them and which ones are not. Sometimes the toys even get new stickers on them. One of our previously green sticker red buckets started to get really messy. The children were dumping the small pieces out or taking forever to tidy it up so it became a yellow toy.
This way of toy labelling has helped us out a lot in classifying our toys and it's a much simpler way of expressing to the children which toys are available and which ones are not. Sometimes we just don't have enough time in the period to get into the more involved red toys. It's very easy to implement and very easy for the children to learn and understand.
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