Organized Chaos: Organizing Our Arts & Crafts Supplies

  General Craft Supplies

Our kids love to do crafts! In the summer months, on the weekends, or evenings when the kids have some extra free time they like to do crafts.  Throughout the school year they have to do various projects for school so our art and craft supplies come in handy for those tasks as well.

The general arts and crafts supplies are stored in our storage closet on one of our shelves in individual containers labeled with what is inside each one.  Whenever the kids want to do a craft or need something specific all they have to do is get the container out, use whatever item they need, and put the container back once they are finished.  If they use up all of one particular item they write that item on the grocery / shopping list (or tell us if we are nearby so we can add it).

When the kids were younger we had a lot more containers of art and crafts supplies.  Now we have narrowed it down to the supplies they use the most and will fit on one shelf in the storage room.  We still have a couple drawers and other containers on the very bottom shelf for specialty or specific items that do not fit into these categories, but they are easy to access when they need them as well.   Also, the girls have crafts that were give to them in their own rooms, Organized Chaos: Kids Crafts & Activities.

These small containers with lids that we used for the arts and crafts supplies, you can find for a $1 at Dollar Tree, have been very useful in helping our family get organized!  Once the items are placed in containers, we put the lid on, and label them. We picked up the shelving a long time ago at Sam’s Club, but you can find it at a number of stores including Walmart, KMart, Target, Home Depot,  Lowe’s, and more.

Here are some of the container labels we used for our arts and crafts supplies to get you started:

• Stencils
• Small Crafts
• Glitter
• Craft Sticks
• Modeling Clay
• Crayons
• Google Eyes
• Beads & Necklaces
• Fuzzy Sticks (pipe cleaners)
• Water Color Paint / Paint Brushes
• Finger Paints
• Stamps
• Pom Poms

 Our organized storage room – the top shelf in this picture is where the arts & crafts supplies are located!