Play a sorting game with your child’s toys. Start with familiar categories—dogs, cats, farm animals and those exciting jungle animals (wow, an elephant!).
Cleaning up can be fun when it’s a shared experience, when it’s accompanied by a song (“Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere…”), and when there’s a goal in mind. Make the clean-up process a fun activity by incorporating a challenge, such as trying to fit all the toys into a specific basket, or attempting to clean up all the blocks...