School Supply Organization

What to do with all of those School Supplies?

I attribute back to school time with an overwhelming enthusiasm for organization. I’ve been out of school for AGES, and I honestly miss getting the Crayola 64 pack of crayons with the built-in sharpener. Why hasn’t the Trapper Keeper made a comeback? What an organizational specimen, especially when it was covered in scratch-n-sniff stickers! My children are a little old for crayons, but I still love shopping in the back-to-school section at Target every summer!

Driven to be prepared, I keep a lot of school supplies on hand. I hate the 9:00 pm requests for poster board, glue sticks, or some highly specific color of pen, so I stock a school supply closet. Here are my tips to corral the chaos!

Small sets of drawers are the perfect spot for pens, pencils, highlighters, colored pencils, glue sticks, erasers, etc.

Medium drawers keep loose-leaf paper, composition notebooks, tape dispensers, flash drives, index cards, and post-its accessible.

Large drawers can be used for many things. I like to keep craft supplies in them. You never know if a project may pop up that requires yarn, popsicle sticks, a glue gun

Magazine holders work great to hold construction paper, spiral notebooks, file folders, tab dividers, and pencil bags.

Shelf space is used for extra binders, calculators, and whatever else we have.

All in all, I think it’s very easy to get the supplies they need without me having to make a late-night Target run (but maybe that might be fun…)! The kids like to “shop” the closet. Please share your ideas to store school supplies.

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