An organized home daycare provides a place to hang jackets, hats, scarves and so forth. The Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade website suggests using a pot rack for organizing purses, belts and the like. A pot rack can also hold children's coats and hats. Alternatively, crafts stores sell unfinished wooden peg coat racks which are ideal to paint in bright colors to hang on the wall in your home daycare. Tape a photo of each child above the pegs to indicate where the children should hang their outerwear items.
Daycare children can reach for their own breakfast and lunch dishes from a dish caddy. Three boxes stacked and stapled together, painted in bright colors and placed on a low table provide children with a place to grab their own cups, plates, bowls and silverware.
Equip every home daycare with toy boxes. Painted cardboard boxes, for example, are inexpensive toy storage options. If you draw a picture of the contents on the box (a book for books, a car for toy cars, a teddy bear for stuffed animals, a block for blocks), your daycare children will automatically know where to find and replace each type of toy.
The Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade website shares a tip for storing rolled towels in a wine rack. If you substitute rolled towels for rolled nap blankets, you can make excellent use of an inexpensive wine rack to help organize before and after naps.
Children usually remove their shoes before nap time. A large wicker basket provides children with a convenient place to store their shoes while they snooze. Unlike pre-manufactured shoe shelves or shoe caddies, wicker baskets are as decorative as they are functional.
Office supply inboxes are ideal storage units for children's drawings and crafts. You can find a variety of inexpensive inbox units in plastic or cardboard from office supply stores. Tape each child's photo to the sides of the inboxes so when it comes time for "Mommy, look what I made," each child can quickly and easily find his own artwork.