DIY Art Supplies Caddy

This is a post that I have been meaning to write since February, the last time we went to IKEA. I kid you not. This post is eight months late! (I am so behind with, oh, everything.)

Art Supplies Caddy

Here’s an easy way to make a transportable art caddy. Gather empty and clean tin cans and/or jam jars and place them in a handled wooden cutlery tray.

Art Supplies Caddy

This particular wooden silverware tray came from IKEA, cost less less than $7, and holds six cans.

Art Supplies Caddy

In our art caddy we have a spot for markers, colored pencils, writing pencils, erasers, scissors, glitter glue pens and popsicle sticks.

Glitter pens and Popsicle sticks stored in tin can

Instead of adhering the cans to the tray, we left them free floating so we can remove individual cans from the caddy to bring just one artistic medium to the table.

Art Supplies Caddy

I have plans to paint the caddy blue… but considering that I’ve been meaning to paint it since February, it may be a long time coming.