Organizing the Craft Supplies

We used to keep craft supplies in the kitchen pantry. And some in the office. And some in the bedrooms… you get the picture. It was chaos when we needed tape, or a glue stick, or a purple sheet of construction paper.

So last week I picked up a Degernes Bed Storage Box from Ikea to use as a craft box. I have to say, it’s perfect! I got the smaller one (90X66 cm) so it would fit under David’s bed (along side his sleeping bag and tent which are rolled up and stored under there.

It’s just a fabric lined flat wicker box with a fabric tie-down top that’s just the right height to slide under a bed. It stores everything just perfectly.

I gathered all our supplies and started adding them in one by one last Sunday. The biggest item that it had to hold was the Mala paper roll (also from Ikea). Some of the other loose things like chalk, foam shapes, and other small items got moved from old coffee tins to ziplock bags. Paper got stacked together, along with stencils and notebooks. Pens, markers and crayons got one big container. And odds and ends like paper towel rolls and other doodads just got thrown in randomly.

I’m happy to say that four days of crafting later, the box still looks pretty good, and having everything in one place in HIS bedroom has made David a little more conscientious about cleaning up too. And once the top is tied down, the dog doesn’t even try to get in to chew on the crayons.

This is definitely one of my better ideas this year.

Tags: crafts, organization, home organization, craftbox, parenthack

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