DIY Kids' Craft Supply Organizer! - Finnegan and The Hughes

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As we continue our losing battle of the summer ending and with Back to School being all the rage, I have been trying to prep our home for a new routine to better organize our morning rush and afternoon homework sessions. Since my oldest is starting first grade and my youngest is starting Kindergarten, the majority of our supplies are crayons, markers and pencils.

When the fabulous folks at Crayola sent us over this amazingness, I knew I had to find a way to display our markers and crayons so that the kids could easily access them and feel like they were free to color at any time. They LOVE to color and draw so with all their new amazing supplies I wanted to figure out a way to make their Crayola supplies easily accessible.

I wanted something fun and a little different. I have been wanting to do a DIY project for a while and with a little help from my husband (on a lot of help, he did most of the work) we were able to create this awesome DIY Kids’ Craft Supply Organizer!

First you will need the following supplies to build you organizer

Wood glue

Three wood clamps

Chop saw

Hand Sander

150 and 220 grit sand paper

1 ½” x 3 ½ clear pine

2 paint brush

One can of clear coat

1 ½” drill bit

Hand drill

We used two pieces of wood because it was much cheaper and easier to find the pieces we needed. My husband just used the wood glue and clamps to secure them together

He then put the pieces together and used 3 clamps to hold them in place till the glue dried

After the glue dried I ran to the store and that is when my husband drilled the holes. I don’t have any photos of this process because he is not a blogger and he doesn’t believe everything he does needs to be photographed 😉 SO….He saidheDrilled down 3 1/2inchesand measured1 1/2″ apart

I came home and found these beautifully drilled holes, perfect for holding coloring supplies. Since my husband has been working in the yard all morning I wanted to give him a break, plus I was dying to get in on the DIYing so I said I would sand all the holes.

Don’t mind my roots!

The sanding took about 25-30 minutes and looked great. Rob then cut the edges on his saw to have the straight and sanded the sides down too.

Then we did two coats of the clear glaze. You could do a color but we had the glaze so we just used what we had. I also wanted it to have a wood look to it.

We did two coats of glaze. The finished product came out amazing!! It’s has me wanting to do more and more DIY projects. I left it out on our dining room table to the kids just keep flocking to the table, get paper and draw or color!

Needless to say, we LOVE our new Coloring Organizer.
Want to get the Crayola products we used to fill it up?

We added the following ALL WASHABLE because that is a must in our house:

Crayola Crayons 24 Pack

Crayola Colored Pencils

Crayola Twistables

Crayola Super Tips

Also, just because my kids and I think they are SUPER AWESOME, you MUST check out Crayola’s new My Color Is packs!! Derek loves Orange, Hayley loves Pink and I fancy myself some Green. We all flipped for our new My Color Is packs!!

Here are my kids this morning, unprompted, enjoying our new DIY Kids’ Craft Supply Organizer!

Comments

hchybinski says

August 19, 2015 at 1:55 pm

I love this!!! Such a great idea and I love the way it looks too! Also – I adore those My Color Packs hard!

makinglemonadeblog says

August 20, 2015 at 9:58 pm

Sarah!!!!! Love this! Can you guys make me one too? 😉 And I especially love all those great coloring supplies. My kids would love to wake up to that on the table!!

Hilary says

August 21, 2015 at 8:25 am

How perfect is that! I wonder if we have that kind of saw haha 🙂

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