If you are like many families your kids come home from school with these huge full backpacks or book bags and pile them by the kitchen door, on the kitchen table, the sofa or in the hallway where someone can trip on them.  When have multiple kids in school the kid backpack organizing can become a nightmare.

Some parents have tried novel book bag hanging ideas like using a hat tree or coat rack, some of which aren’t that stable and may fall over.  Others have acquired deacon beaches or church pews, and used those as a hallway gathering spot for any bags or backpacks.  There may be better ideas for parents to try.

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Wouldn’t things by a lot easier for you and the kids if there was someplace to hang the school backpacks, like on a dedicated kids backpack hook?  Just being able to relieve yourself from constantly tripping over the school backpacks scattered all over is enough to peak the imagination into finding some alternative way.  That way is to install some hooks for the kid’s backpacks.

Try getting your kids school backpacks up and off the floor, where it is more ideal by using hooks.  You can even install them for the little kids closer to their level so they can hang their own backpack up at the end of the school day.  Some kids keep their backpacks in their rooms, but many parents find that a more central location for all the backpacks works better with organizing the morning ritual.  This is easier to accomplish if you have an over the door hanger or one that you have attached to a wall.

Jokari makes a cool backpack hook device that fits over a door kind of like the shoe racks that you may be familiar with.  This Jokari rack holds three school size knapsacks in a vertical fashion and is adjustable.  The hook rack connects to both the top and bottom of the door to keep it from bouncing around when your kids pull a book bag off.  This is a very cool backpack organizing idea!

Another place for kids backpack hooks might be in your mudroom, where they can get all of their stuff off and out of the main living areas.  Visiting Lowes or Home Depot might reveal a lot of hook ideas that you can get attached to your door or wall.  There are hooks available for just about anywhere and any situation.  Other parents have put hooks in a large walk-in closet in a hallway, where the kids can hang both their coats and backpacks on a daily basis during the school year.

The garage is a popular place for backpack hooks that your kids can use. The big industrial-like yellow or red hooks that you can hang bikes on can also be used for backpacks, although it could get cool in there during the winter.  Still many parents have told us they use the garage for hanging their kid’s backpacks and the kids think it is a really cool idea!  In the summer you could then hang other things there, as well as in the mudroom example talked about above.

Some parents don’t want all of the kid’s school backpacks in one area where the kids will have to crowd around to get their bags, so they opt to put individual hooks in the bedrooms, so each child has a single hook.  For older, and taller, kids a single over the door wreath hook may be a perfect fit.

Whatever you decide on your own or buy from the store, it is a cool idea to hang your kids backpacks on a hook.  Surprisingly not that many people are doing that yet, and they may still be tripping daily over half open kids backpacks scattered in the hallways or top of the stairs.

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