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I haven't tried it. I just spray them down with a light bleach/water solution. Sometimes I let the kids wipe them down or play with the plastic ones in buckets of soapy water. Stuffed animals usually wash and dry okay though.
Just wondering if you have ever dried toys in your dryer to make it go faster? I need to sanitize my daycare toys and want to make the drying time go faster. Thank you
I haven't tried it. I just spray them down with a light bleach/water solution. Sometimes I let the kids wipe them down or play with the plastic ones in buckets of soapy water. Stuffed animals usually wash and dry okay though.
I dry stuffies in the dryer, but plastic ones get put in the dishwasher.
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Stuffed animals, sure. Anything that's plastic/metalic/wood, no.
If you can spread those things out and have a fan blow on them, the drying time will be shorter.
only fabricated toys, hard toys i just sprayed with lysol when my daughter was a baby and was done with it (giving 48 hrs to dry then rinsed-on the weekends she was with her dad)
I have washed legos, plastic and rubber toys in the dishwasher in a mesh bag...it works awesome!
I have washed toys in the washer but didn't dry them. The dishwasher works great for plastic toys. The smaller ones work well in a mesh bag so they don't fly all over the place. For stuffed animals and cloth body dolls I put each one in a pillow case and tie it closed. I have put them in the dryer. The pillowcase seems to help keep the fur in good shape.
maybe put them in a pillow case first so they dont bounce around all crazy? Seems like a good idea as long as some towels are thrown in for insulation purposes.
Just don't put stuffed animals that have a "hair" kind of material for tail. I dried a stuffed horse in the dryer and the main body was fine but the tail became one solid piece of tangled mess (almost like a cotton ball) and the lovely feeling of running hands through the horse's tail was lost. But you could still use the wash and spin cycle, just hand that kind of stuffed toy on a line to dry.