Kid laundry

Teaching kids to sort laundry is a time consuming skill that takes practice. If we start when they are young, they won't end up wearing pink (supposed to be white) T-shirts when they leave home and go off to college. Doing laundry is something that kids can begin helping with at a young age and working up to doing it on their own.

To encourage my kids to sort their clothes as they took it off instead of waiting until laundry day, I put 4 hampers in their bathroom. Labeled with: red, white, dark and light.

Then instead of doing laundry just once a week, we make it part of our daily routine. The child in charge of the laundry zone (our chores are divided into zones) gets 1 hamper from the bathroom, adds any adult's clothes of that color to the bucket and then starts the laundry before breakfast. At lunch time the laundry person moves the clothes to the dryer, and before they play after school work is done, they are responsible to sort the clothes and lay neatly on the couch so everyone can put away their own clothes.