It can be hard work keeping your house tidy, especially when you’ve got a family to look after. The house can start to look like a bombsite pretty quickly. Worse still, your kids probably aren’t partial to actually helping keep the house tidy. But don’t worry, we know how to inspire your kids to help out. It’s time to make some magic by making your cleaning process fun!

Time & Reward

The best thing you can do is make cleaning up a game. If you make the evening fun then your kids may just go along with it! Put some of the latest pop hits from 2019, tell your kids that they literally have until the song ends to tidy up the room and then get started. This sort of game will make them go crazy trying to get the room clean, especially if you have a reward waiting for them at the end.

Toy Fairy

Kids love being rewarded for their hard work. That’s why it’s time for you to add a magical element to tidying up. Tell them that every time a good kid tidies up a room or cleans up their toys, the toy fairy will bring them a new toy whilst they are sleeping. Now, these toys don’t need to be extravagant. Instead, just make them small funny toys that you can literally buy for nothing, like bouncy balls or marbles. They’ll be racing to tidy up your house in no time.

Create a play space

One of the most annoying things that can happen is that you can clean a room, get it looking sparkling, only to go to another room to find that it has been left a tip. If you’re getting a bit sick of seeing your house clean and tidy for only a few minutes, it might be time to create a playroom. That way all of the mess can be contained to one room. You could choose to use a pre-existing room or perhaps create a new room with award-winning loft boarding service from Instaloft, either way, you can contain all of the mess to a single room. If you give your kids enough motivation, and responsibility, they will want to impress you. Therefore, they will tidy up on their own if you trust them.

Competition

One of the best ways of encouraging your kids to tidy up after themselves is to actively supply a bit of healthy competition. Challenge your child to a cleaning competition and see if they can outshine you when it comes to tidying up. As a result, you may even find that your kids end up doing even more work than you!

Dress up

Do your kids like dressing up? Dressing up is a great way to inspire your kids’ imaginations, but it can also make the chores fun if they’re doing the tidying whilst they’re dressed up. If they’re dressed up as Disney characters, you may even want to put on the song of their character. This can help them really get into the cleaning mood, especially if they see it as a performance!