It seems as though our kids have more crayons, markers, coloring books, and stickers than they can possibly use in one life time. I thought I would give you a couple of ideas as to how to keep all of their artwork “stuff” organized or at the very least accessible to them without making it a huge burden on you.

I am have been very blessed with a large laundry room. I keep a three drawer Sterilite from Wal-Mart. Here is a link as to what I am talking about but mine is not the wide one, I have the narrow one. They are about $15 at Wal-Mart.

Here is what I keep in mine:

Top Drawer: I empty all of their crayons and put them in a large Ziploc bag. I use a large bag (gallon) so that they don’t have to be careful to squeeze them all into the bag, they can just toss in and pick up quickly. If you use a smaller bag, they have to make sure they get them in a certain way, this will waste time picking up and frustrate your children. I do the same thing (large Ziploc bag for each) large markers, skinny markers, colored pencils + sharpener, pens & pencils in one + sharpener, and a bag to hold glue sticks, tape, scissors. All of the gallon Ziploc bags on in our top drawer. I have a big bowl on our kitchen table so that if they come across a dried out marker they throw it in the big bowl rather than putting it back in the bag, this way I know when they need new markers.

Middle Drawer: I fill this will a large Ziploc bag holding all of their “loosey goosey” stickers. I put all of their coloring books, sticker books, and activity books in this drawer.

Bottom Drawer: I fill this with white paper, construction paper, and notebooks.

I love the rolling cart because they can zip it out by the kitchen table, take out what they need to do their artwork. After they are finished they can put everything away really easy and roll the cart back into the laundry room.

So let’s say you not as lucky to have a big laundry room to have the cart. I have put these carts for clients in the coat closet or kitchen pantry. Still no room? Here is another idea…Use my same organizing ideas but instead of a three drawer rolling cart. Use one plastic bin to hold all of the things in the top drawer. Since space is limited I would suggest using magazine holders to hold the middle drawer and the bottom drawer. You may want two magazine holders per drawer (one for coloring books the other for stickers & activity books) one for white paper/notebooks & the other for construction paper. Here is what I mean by a magazine holder from the Container Store on sale!