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If you have little children, this means you have 1.4 million art supplies roaming around your house, procreating and multiplying when you turn your back. Some nights after I look around the clutter that has replaced my dining room table I have nightmares of being choked out in my sleep by 1,000 broken crayons. Maybe that sticky spot on the counter is jelly, sure - but more likely it is one of our 42 glue sticks that all miraculously repel their closing caps. First I tried an "art caddy" - you know, one of those cute little buckets filled with all of your art supplies that you can carry around - but of course that just overflowed and dumped all over the floor. So, I then confiscated an entire kitchen cabinet area that could be utilized as the perfect home for these art supplies - but of course this turned into me being hit in the face by a tower of mis-capped markers every time I opened it (what is it with kids shoving things haphazardly into a cupboard?! Oh wait, that was ME who did it when I was quickly cleaning up at the end of a long, exhausting day?! Okay, I deserve the marker streak down my nose for that). But finally, FINALLY I have solved my art woes. All for the low discount price of $24. Meet the art cart: The best thing about this cart is that there are 10 separate drawers so everything can be nicely organized/sectioned off and I can fill the drawers with additional organizing trays to keep things in order! Each kid gets a drawer for their prized artwork (if it doesn't fit, they have to pick and choose what to keep - this helps teach them that we only have so much space for their 107th cat drawing...) and the cart is on WHEELS. This is genius. If you have something stationary, then the kids have to carry their art supplies to the other side of the house, dropping at least 3/4 of their items all over the floor before they get to their destination (my couches do not love this, and I do not love retrieving dust ball-covered items out from under them). So, we can roll this sucker to wherever we're crafting (kitchen counters, dining room tables, etc) and everything they need is accessible, and then when we're done it's super easy fast cleanup. Then the cart gets shoved back into the coat closet, out of sight: To help the kids keep this organized I've made some simple labels for the different drawers (if your kids can't read yet, cut out pictures of crayons and markers and stamps and use those instead to help them find the proper homes for their supplies) and BOOM! No more art supply tsunamis causing devastation and destruction in every room of my house. Here are the labels for the cart: Now stop stepping on rogue googly eyes and marker caps in the middle of the night (those really hurt, right?!) and go get organized!!! :)
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AuthorI love writing romance novels, editing other people's novels, planning parties (heavy on the theme food!) and watching movies. Cooking has also become a passion of mine (because you can't have a proper party without food!) and I love finding new hobbies when I can squeeze them in. Archives
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