We’ve finally been making headway on our arts and craft supplies organization project.
This week we focused on decluttering and reorganizing these plastic drawers. To refresh your memory, here is what the drawers looked like before:
They were (inadvertently) fully accessible to our daughter (who discovered that she could reach the drawers by standing on a chair), yet full of all sorts of messy supplies that we didn’t particularly want her to use entirely by herself like finger-paints and mama’s hot glue gun:
Luckily she always asked before she delved in those drawers, so I don’t have any horror stories to share. Nevertheless I knew the day would come when she explored them entirely on her own, so we had to move the supplies around to get them out of her reach.
We essentially emptied these drawers, placing those supplies elsewhere (more on that soon!), and filled the drawers up with more age-appropriate supplies.
We also moved the drawers to a more easily accessible location so she can help herself to…
stickers,
activity books,
pads and pens (pencils are always accessible, placed out on the table),
crayons,
and miscellaneous supplies.
We’re very pleased with the results. We have one more drawer to fill and I have yet to tackle the clutter on top of the shelves, but it’s better and supplies that had been forgotten are being used. Success!