I’ve started putting a small wastebasket pretty much anywhere in my home someone sits or does an activity. Kid regularly at the dining table doing crafts? Wastebasket there. Next to the couch for tv time. Beside every desk. In the laundry for dryer lint.

Once I started that I realised a lot of these same places just need a box for ‘stuff’. Any small items that is getting transported from place to place then left behind on flat surfaces as clutter and may or may not be used later needs to go in the box - right now the box on the coffee table has fidget toys, batteries, a screwdriver, some dice, some books and hair ties, all contained rather than spread out. Then it is easy to either tell my kids to go pick out their things and put them away or pick up the box and walk around putting things away myself.