Organizing School Supplies with a DIY Tabletop Organizer
Organizing school supplies so they’re easier to find and use, with a handmade tabletop organizer.
Our basket full of shared school supplies was a jumbled mess. Each child has their own school supplies which they keep in their school bags, but we also have some shared supplies that everyone uses, such as the markers, special colored pencils, and craft scissors.
Organizing School Supplies
I came across an idea on several websites for making a tabletop organizer using a wooden turntable. It looked so easy and cute that I decided to make one!
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Supplies Needed:
- wooden turntable
- metal pails (6 fit nicely on my turntable, but it depends on size)
- glue gun and glue
- button magnets
How to Make It:
1. First, decide on the placement of all the metal buckets:
I just tried to space them as evenly apart as possible, with 5 on the outside and 1 in the center.
2. Use a pencil to mark where each magnet should be glued down:
3. Use the hot glue gun to glue down the magnets.
The metal pails just rest right on top of these, and the magnets hold them down.
4. Fill up the buckets and admire the beautiful, orderly, colorful sight!
I just love the way this turned out, and it was such a simple project!
My children felt very loved when I gave this to them.
Seriously, they were so excited! They kept saying how much they loved it, and my youngest daughter started sharpening pencils right away. And my older daughter started drawing and coloring and exclaiming over the markers.
I made this a couple of months ago, and it’s still working well for us. When we’re not using it, the whole thing is stored in the pie safe that sits next to the kitchen table, where we do most of our schoolwork and all of our art projects.
What a simple and satisfying solution to the jumbled mess we had before!
Favorite Art Supplies:
Here are a few of our favorite supplies to keep in our organizer.
- Lyra Groove Colored Pencils
- Lyra Waldorf Selection Giant Triangular Colored Pencils
- Prismacolor Colored Pencils
- Ticonderoga Pencils
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What is the size dimensions of the buckets?
These were about 4″ across the top, and 4″ tall.