Aahhh January, a time for fresh starts and new beginnings! If you’re anything like me, the thought of organizing teaching supplies makes you a little giddy 😉 I have a fun, new way to organize the markers, crayons, pencils, etc. that you use when teaching a lesson in front of the class. Thanks to Scotch Expressions Tape, they are also really cute!
More often than not, I’m completing a step-by-step lesson with my class, and I misplace my black crayon. Sure, I could reach into the students’ crayon boxes and use one of theirs, but we all know how gross that can be 😉 So I wanted to come up with any easy way to store my teaching supplies and make them easy to access. I saw this idea on Pinterest and I knew it was it! Unfortunately, the magnetic containers that blogger used are no longer available, so I had to get creative! I found some little wooden boxes {with some seasonal snowflakes on them!} at my local craft store and I knew they’d do the trick!
I chose some cute and cheery Scotch Expressions Washi Tape {Pink Quatrefoil} and Scotch Expressions Magic tape {Circus, Classic Triangles, Orange, Turquoise}, found some glittery letter stickers and picked up a few strong magnets.
I decorated the “backside” of the wooden boxes since they were going to be the new front. I played around with the tape, and layered them over each other. I made sure to cover up the little holes at the top that once had string going through them.
I was a little advantageous at first using only one magnet, but found soon enough that it was not strong enough to hold both the box and the supplies inside of it!
So I peeled the magnet off the center, and glued four magnets to each corner instead. Much better!
I decorated three boxes and then added labels to the “front” using my glittery letter stickers.
I made boxes for markers, crayons and pencils. You can also make them for scissors, dry-erase markers, or even glue sticks!
Then I stuck them up on the white board, for easy access whenever I need them!
Organized and beautiful. Just the way I like it 🙂
Organized and beautiful. Just the way I like it 🙂
This post is brought to you by Scotch®. All opinions are mine.
Quidit!!!! How cute is this! Love!
I love this!! You are always so creative! 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration!!
So super cute!!! 🙂
Tara
So pretty! Just pinned it to my classroom organization board!
Journey Of A Substitute Teacher
Oh my gosh so cute!! I wish we had fun tapes like this in New Zealand.
Erin
Learning to be awesome
This is so cute!
Will you make me some?
So CUTE!!!
(PS does it also have a magnetic force that keeps kids from taking your supplies?)
LOVE this idea!! 🙂
CUTE
What a great idea! Super cute, I'm thinking of making some now, heehee. Thank you for sharing this wonderful idea.:)
Alma
http://alsolis.blogspot.com/
Adorable! Beats my silver wire mesh ones by a mile! 🙂
SO cute!
Jennifer
First Grade Blue Skies
ah – super cute and creative!! Love it!
~jeannie~
Kindergarten Lifestyle
Yay! Can't wait to make our magnetic displays! So cute!
Primary Peas
Alli + Carlee
Super cute craft and I LOVE your new blog design, girl!
These are so cute and I love your blog, I think it is adorable.
Great idea to make them magnetic. I chuckled when at it being gross to borrow a crayon from the class. I TOTALLY agree!! My teaching assistant always makes fun of me, so it is nice to hear another teacher say it!
Pam
mrspspecialties.blogspot.com