10 Clever DIY Home Command Centre Ideas 

New Year, New Goals! Give yourself and your home a fresh new space with these DIY Home Command Center Ideas to get your mum life organised. Choose the best ideas from this list and create your own command center that suits your home and your family’s lifestyle.

1. Bright and Sunny

Create a bright space with a fun colour theme for your DIY family command center. It’ll be a great spot for all your family’s everyday essentials. 

2. Behind Closed Doors

No space? No problem! If you’ve got a spare closet and don’t know what to do with it, well now you’ve got a small space command center you can utilise. The best part? If things get crazy messy, you can always just shut the door. Whew!

3. Wall Encounter

Get inspired with this DIY home command center wall organiser. It’s got everything sorted out from menu planners, schedulers, to pen and pencils, and even coupons and vouchers. 

4. Fridge Advantage

Wondering how to make a home command center when you’ve got barely any space at home? Well, your fridge is the answer! Just find a planner and a small organiser with magnets and tadaaa! Everything is up and organised and it’s so easy to access.

5. Cool School 

Keep up with home and school with this home command center design that’s great for getting school stuff sorted out!

6. Framed Up

Steer clear of any mess and have everything up on a wall in your kitchen when creating a home command center. Keep it simple! A big calendar and supplies organisers will do the trick. Don’t forget to label them, too!

7. Chalkboard Fun

Make your DIY home command center fun with a chalkboard panel. Get your kids to do some artwork on it and give them access to their designated clipboards, too.

8. Your Wire & Only

Have a wall to yourselves for your command center home organisation! Put up frames, a calendar, whiteboard, and wire baskets to organise all your papers, mail, and other supplies. Goodbye, boring blank wall, and hello well-organised life!

9. Secret Space

Do you secretly want to have a DIY home commander center? Here’s an idea! Find any corner or cabinet at home and turn it into your drop zone. All you need is a pegboard, some bins, and folders to get everything organised in your small space. 

10. Geeky Modern Sleek 

A lovely way to incorporate your home command center is to design it according to your home aesthetics. Just like this modern family command center where they’ve created an accent wall and made it into a focal point. Add well-curated pieces to get your command center looking sleek and modern. 

Got DIY Home Command Centre Ideas To Share?

Post and tag us on Facebook and Instagram. Who knows? We might feature your amazing tips and hacks on our blog, too!

Need Busy Mum Hacks?

Read about our Meal Planning Tips and Meal Prep Ideas. You’ll love our Clever Fridge Storage Hacks! 

Organising Your Home For The New Year?

Start the new year right by getting organised! Declutter your space and decorate your newly reorganised home! Labels and planners are everything! And we’ve got it all! If you’re trying out any of the DIY Home Command Centre ideas, our chalkboard panels, and dry erase labels are your best friends! What’s a command center without a planner and a list? Grab your meal planner notepads, weekly planner, and shopping lists too! Add a personalised touch to that space with a wall sign. The best part? These are made for you in Australia and shipped super fast! You’re going to love them!

The post 10 DIY Home Command Center Ideas For Busy Mums appeared first on Bright Star Kids.

Meal Prep Tips For  Busy Parents

Prep your daily family meals with these Easy Meal Prep Ideas to get you through the week. It’s meal planning made easy! If you haven’t tried it, here’s why you should:

The Benefits:

• Healthier Option than grabbing fast food especially on busy days
• Fuss-free meals cooked super fast – Grab, Heat, and Go!
• Well-portioned meals = less food waste

Image Credits: Green Healthy Cooking 

How To Meal Prep?

Create a menu with meals that everyone in the family loves. Use a meal planner notepad to write down the meals you have planned each day and have a list of your easy meal prep recipes ready. Check your family’s schedule to know which days you only need to prep for. Take note of days when you’ll all be out, so there’ll be no need to have meals prepped. 

What’s Next?

Now that you have a menu plan ready, it’s time to check your kitchen and pantry for your ingredients. Create a shopping list to note all the things you need to buy for the upcoming week, or if you’re feeling extra organised, get the whole month’s supplies sorted out. This all depends on your schedule and budget, of course! When you’re done with your list, go for your groceries and market run! 

Prep Up!

Set aside half the day for prepping. Post your menu plan on your fridge and use it as a guide to see which ones you’ll need to prep first. Personalise your own pantry labels and have your containers ready and labelled. 

An organised kitchen or prep table helps to quickly grab anything you need like spices and herbs, condiments, etc. Then let the cooking fest begin. Once done, make sure everything is cooled down before you cover all containers.

Image Credits: Womans Day

Store and Label!

Choose the best reusable and freezable containers then use dry erase labels, so you can properly label each meal. Remember to put the date and if it’s cooked or just frozen. Add a name to the meal pack if it’s for someone in the family with a special diet or allergies. Store in chiller or freezer. 

Image Credits L-R: Bright Kids Labels Dry Erase Labels, Walking on Sunshine Recipes

Easy Meal Prep Recipes

Check out more meal prep recipes below:

Freezable Friendly Meals

On The Go Meals

Weekly Meal Prep 

Meal Preps Made Easy

Image Credits: All Womans Talk

Want To Share Your Meal Prepping Tips?

Share them with us! Post and tag us on Facebook and Instagram. Who knows? We might just feature your amazing tips and hacks on our blog!

Looking For Easy Meal Recipes For Your Kids?

Check out our Picnic Food Ideas and Easy Camping Meals. You can also teach your kids some Easy Cooking Recipes. We’ve also got Healthy No-Cook Meals for kids you can easily whip up in an instant!

Organising Your Kitchen For Easy Meal Prepping?

Prep and plan all your meals for the family with our dry-erase shopping list and meal planner notepads! We’ve also got our dry-erase labels and markers perfect for all containers! The best part? These are all made for you in Australia and shipped super fast! You’re going to love them!

The post Easy Meal Prep Ideas And Meal Planning Made Easy appeared first on Bright Star Kids.

Craft Room Ideas: 3 Best Ikea Hacks on How To Organise A Craft Room

Looking for some Craft Room Ideas? We’ve got these awesome Ikea hacks from Lisa Allen that she’s shared with Mums and Bright Star Kids. 

With arts & crafts supplies scattered all over the house, these Ikea hacks are sure to make Craft-Mum life much easier and super organised! 

1. Ikea PegBoard

This Ikea Skadis pegboard is a dream! With so many things you can hook up in there, you’re going to save so much space on your craft table. The best part though… you’ll actually be able to find everything you need without pulling the house apart. 

2. Ikea PegBoard Attachments

Lisa got some clever pegboard attachments to hold all of her supplies like craft paper, tissue roll, colour palettes and more from the wall! Genius! We’re also loving those paper roll holders. Her brushes, sketch pads and palettes were kept on Skadis containers and shelves that are hooked up on the pegboard too! Ahhh-mazing!!!

3. Ikea Boxes

Her other craft supplies are in the open craft shelving making it quick easy to grab things as you need them! Those boxes with lids are perfect for hiding miscellaneous or miss-matched items. They’re awesome for keeping your space looking super-organised. These Ikea Sockerbit and Kuggis boxes are a must if you want to keep your craft supplies dust free too!

For the finishing touch on these clever Ikea hacks, label all of your craft storage boxes and containers so that you can always find what you need at a glance! Our chalkboard labels are perfect! Use our white chalk marker on them so that you can easily erase and then rewrite on them when you’re reorganising your supplies. You’ll be an organised crafter in no time.

Inspired To Organise Your Craft Room & Other Rooms In Your House?

Read up on our blog about our home organisation hacks and get more ideas on how to use Chalkboard Labels around the house too!

Have Some Craft Room Ideas You’d Like to Share With Us?

Tag us on Facebook and Instagram so that we can see your clever organising ideas! We might just feature your ideas and hacks on our blog too! 

Need Personalised Labels?

We’ve got a wide range of labels you can personalise! We’ve got name labels, gift labels, and more! Perfect for school supplies and organising your things at home! We even have wall signs you can use for your craft room so that you can personalise your space. The best part? These are all made in Australia and shipped super fast! You’re going to love them!

The post Craft Room Ideas: 3 Best Ikea Hacks For Your Craft Room appeared first on Bright Star Kids.

Mummy Tip: Organise With Colours and Labels

 This Mum’s organisation tips help her to stay mega organised.  By colour coding and labelling her kids items at home, she manages to help her kids keep track of  their own belongings. You’ll be amazed to learn how super easy it is.

Deidre Turner, Mum of 5, tells Bright Star Kids

As a mum of 5 little kids I’m a huge fan of colour coding kids things, I really believe it makes life easier for me and the kids. I am a tad obsessed with colour coding, as you can probably guess.

What is colour coding?

Colour coding kids’ stuff is where you assign each child a colour and buy items in that colour so they can easily identify what belongs to who.

What are the benefits of colour coding for kids?

• Own fewer items overall, 1-2 things in each child’s colour.
• Kids take responsibility for their items more easily. It is much simpler for little kids to take their dishes to the kitchen and hang up their towel when they can easily identify which items are theirs based on looking for ‘their’ colour.
• Easy for parents to see at a glance who has been leaving their dishes/towel lying around!
• Easier sorting with items like socks, jocks clothing etc when you can see the colour at a glance.
• No fighting over who gets what colour. This was seriously the biggest benefit for me, my older twins used to argue endlessly over one particular green plate, assigning colours eliminated these arguments completely.
• Rainbows make people happy (I just made that one up-but my rainbow shelf makes me happy)

Who benefits from colour coding for kids?

If you have 2 or more kids, you’ll benefit from colour coding, the more kids you have, the easier it makes life to have a system like this in place.

I started colour coding when I had my 2nd set of twins over 2.5 years ago (I had 5 kids in 5 years), I figured I was going to need to level up if I was going to keep up with 5 little boys!

I didn’t do all this overnight, I’ve bought things gradually and added things I colour code over time.

Picking colours:

To pick the colours I went with easy to find primary colours, red, green, blue, yellow and orange. I have all boys so steered away from pink and purple, however pink and purple are easier to find than yellow and orange, so if you’ve got a girl (or boy) that loves pink or purple, those are great colours to use. I’ve found the 4 easiest colours to find are green, blue, pink and purple.

To decide who had which colour for which child, I went with the favourite colours for the older three kids. The younger 2 just got assigned a colour at birth.

The kids colours are as follows:

Mr. 8 twin 1: red

Mr. 8 twin 2: green

Mr. 5.5: blue

Mr. 2.5 twin 1: orange

Mr. 2.5 twin 2: yellow

Mr. Green recently told me that his favourite colour is now purple, but I’ve instituted a ‘no changing colours’ rule as I’ve already bought all his stuff in green

What items do you colour code?

You can colour code anything really, towels, dinnerware and name stickers are a good place to start.

Here is a list of the items I have colour coded, I’ll list the brand next to them so people can find them if they want:

• 2 bath towels (mine are the Pillow Talk Urban Range)
• 1 face washer (Pillow Talk Urban Range)
• 1 toothbrush (Caredent Kids Junior Sparkle Toothbrush)
• 1 laundry hamper (eBay cheapie)
• 2 plates (1 divider plate, 1 normal-RePlay)
• 2 bowls (1 small, 1 large-RePlay)
• 2 cups (1 sippy cup for the younger 2-RePlay)
• 1 double snack pod (RePlay)
• 1 drink bottle (Nike)
• 1 Personalised Bento Lunch box (Bright Star Kids)
• Kids Name Labels (Bright Star Kids)
• 1 Personalised Swim Bag (Bright Star Kids)
• 1 Personalised beach towel (Yellow Duck Baby Gifts)
• approximately 7 pairs of undies (Big W, but the orange and yellow ones are hand made by my very talented friend as I couldn’t find these colours in store)
• approximately 7 pairs of socks (If I can’t find the right colours, I just black or white in a size that fits multiple kids)

Other things I colour code:

Hangers:

Approximately 20 hangers per child (I colour coded their hangers by buying coloured dots from Officeworks and sticking them on wooden hangers from Kmart). Kids’ clothes are hung on their colour coded hangers straight out of the washing machine to save folding.

Clothing:

While I don’t colour code the kids’ clothes, I do draw a dot in their colour on the tag of their clothes so I can quickly identify who’s clothing is whose. This is handy when you have several kids in similar sizes like I do. When the clothing is passed down, I just draw the next kid’s coloured dot next to the first one and so on.

Stationery:

• I have chalk pens in each child’s colour which I use to write their appointments etc on my planner board with (chalk pens and board from Daily Orders)
• Folder dividers in their colour to easily identify each child’s section in a folder of important information (bank statements, birth certificates etc). Instead of having 1 folder each I consolidated this down into all 5 kids paperwork in one folder. (from Officeworks)
• Ring binders in their colour containing their daycare and school achievements. (from Officeworks)
• I know this list is pretty extensive, but what you colour code is up to you. Products I really recommend from experience is everything RePlay (recycled and really durable), my boys are rough with their stuff and the RePlay items still look like new after 2 years. Plus they have an awesome range of colours. Also Nike drink bottles are the bomb, my boys destroyed every other type but these ones are really sturdy and don’t break or leak and come in a good range of colours.

My kids love their colour coded items and like all the things I make them in ‘their’ colour. I never have any fights or issues with this system with my kids, it works great. Even my 2 year olds know their colour and can get their towel off the hook and carry their bowls to the sink.

We hope that you’re inspired by Deidre’s colour coding and labelling for kids. It’s a great way to teach your kids life skills and to encourage independence at home while also helping you to keep life organised.

Love Organising?

If you love this idea of colour coding at home to help keep your kids’ things organised, you can find more helpful tips and organisational inspo here.

Looking For Ways Personalise Your Kids’ Items?

We’ve got you covered! Our Ultimate Labels Kit is the ultimate way to help you get started in organising your kids’ items and more. With just one pack, you get to organise and label every little thing. We’ve also got Kids Shirts you can personalise for special occasions or give as gifts for other kids too! These are all printed in Australia and shipped super fast. You are going to love them!

The post Organisation Tips for Mums: 5 Tips on Colour Coding and Labelling For Kids appeared first on Bright Star Kids.

Craft Room Storage Ideas That Are Inspo-Worthy

These craft room storage ideas are sure to keep all your crafting essentials organised no matter what space you have. An organised and nicely decorated craft room can also help you be more productive, creative and give you a sense of calm, so you can just craft away all day if you want to. 

1. Bright Yellow

I love the pops of bright yellow in this craft room. Perfect storage colour to brighten your day. Hang your crafts with touches of yellow too! It’s a pretty cute way of adding spunk to your room.

2. Splash of Blue

Creating a craft room in your home? Decorate and style your craft room with your favourite colour. In this case, splashes of blue are found in craft room storage ideas like the trolley and desk shelf. Totally livens up this room. Adding a patterned rug gives it an eye-catching detail too!

3. Craft Closet

Transform a closet into a craft room storage and give everything a home so that it’s always neat and organised. Isn’t this a clever space saver idea? 

4. The Feature Cabinet

Display your craft supplies in a grid shelving unit. It’s craft room furniture that makes a great background for beautiful candid not so candid photoshoot at home.

5. Cute and Colourful Craft Room

Have these cool room crafts on display for unique wall art in your craft room. The perfect way to showcase your arts & crafts. Still, got a blank space on your wall? Make more crafts and put them up!

6. The Space Under the Stairs

Here’s one of those sewing craft room design ideas that might just be perfect for you when you don’t have enough space! Use the area underneath your stairs. Add a mini craft cabinet, craft table and a small chair to make crafting more space-efficient for you. No space left unnoticed here!

7. Multi-use Craft Space

When you’ve got a limited space at home, all you need is a craft room workstation that lets you get all the work and chores done in one area. It may be teeny-tiny, but it definitely does the job! Choose your furniture wisely so you can organise all of your crafting essentials while it functions for other tasks as well.

8. Sewing and Office Room

The perfect craft room allows you to maximise your use of space even for two different things that you do at home. This is a sewing and office room that utilises a long table to serve its two functions without sacrificing style. 

9. Monochromatic Room

Gather your craft supplies with this monochromatic craft room pegboard DIY. It’s a neat way of displaying your crafting tools and other essentials. Super convenient as you just grab and craft away. Everything is within your reach!

10. Chalkwall Room

Wondering how to organise a craft room while making it functionally chic? Put up a pegboard and chalkboard to help you stay organised with your schedule and crafting tools. 

Want More Craft Room Inspo and Organising Ideas?

Check out our articles on Craft Room Ideas and Organisation Home Life Hacks for more tips and organising hacks for your craft room.

Got Your Own Craft Room Ideas?

Share your creativity. Don’t forget to tag us on Facebook or Instagram – we might just feature them in one of our blogs.

Searching For Labels For Your Craft Supplies and Storage?

We’ve got tub labels and chalkboard stickers that you can organise for your craft room supplies with. Adding labels to your storage makes it easy to keep everything neat and organised. We’ve also got wall signs for that blank wall that’s been needing some new vibe. It’s the perfect decor idea for any crafting space! The best part? These are all made for you in Australia and shipped super fast! You’re going to love them!

The post Craft Room Storage Ideas appeared first on Bright Star Kids.