Works for Me Wednesday – Organizing Kids’ Craft Supplies

p align=”center”a href=”http://rocksinmydryer.net/”img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210456661635131538″ style=”DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center” alt=”" src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PoXHVGzLUGI/SE9CukJUaJI/AAAAAAAAARE/h3dKdZ2Pj5w/s320/untitled.bmp” border=”0″ //a/pbr /br /br /I’ve gone through several different systems for organizing the girls’ craft supplies, but I’ve been using this one since we moved last summer, and so far it’s working out really well.br /br /I have five plastic bins. They are labeled:br /br /Glue, paint, brushesbr /Play-doh, claybr /Paper crafts, stickersbr /Embellishments, ribbonbr /Bubbles and chalkbr /br /They are stacked two-high on a shelf in the laundry room, so they are easy to get to to take things out as well as to put them away (always an important part!).br /br /While this system works pretty well all by itself, I’ve since added some a href=”http://mythreedoodles.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-new-craft-area.html”wall organization/a that really makes the whole system work perfectly for me. That is why there is no bin for “Crayons, markers and colored pencils,” because those are all organized as part of my wall unit. The bin that previously held those now contains all of our a href=”http://mythreedoodles.blogspot.com/search/label/montessori”Montessori transferring supplies/a, including spoons, tongs, trays, bowls, bags of beans and rice.br /br /Of course, that doesn’t include emmy/em craft supplies, but that’s a post for another day…br /br /br /a href=”http://www.mylivesignature.com/” target=”_blank”img style=”BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none” src=”http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54486/128/0E4A8EA9D2A4A002FC32D3D163051882.png” //abr /br /br /––––-–––––-––––––––-–––––––-––––-––––––-–-––––––-–––-–-–––br /span style=”font-size:85%;”Check out /spana href=”http://mythreedoodles.blogspot.com/2008/06/week-3-of-mandis-favorite-things.html”span style=”font-size:85%;”this week’s giveaway/span/aspan style=”font-size:85%;”: A $25 gift certificate to /spana href=”http://www.currclick.com/index.php?affiliate_id=45618″span style=”font-size:85%;”CurrClick/span/aspan style=”font-size:85%;”!/span