Quick and Easy Way to Sanitize Toys & Manipulatives

Last year my amazing para and I spent days (days, people!) washing all of our math manipulatives and other toys in soapy water and letting them dry.  It was a ridiculously long process, and the whole time I kept thinking to myself "There HAS to be a better way to do this!"  Well, thanks to blogland, there is! 

  Just zip up whatever little items were in your kids mouths/hands/pants in some heavy duty lingerie bags (mine were $1.99 each at Target) and wash away!

 After the first run through I got a little more creative by using colanders, a steamer basket and the silverware basket, too!  I ran a light cycle with heated dry, then let them air dry overnight.  I left them right in the bags to dry when possible, which made transporting them back to school super easy. 

 All nice and clean!