I was so tired of the crayon chaos at our house! We had several containers of crayons that were all different sizes, so not easy to store or stack. Something had to be done, for my sanity’s sake, so I got right on Pinterest and looked up crayon organization. I finally found some inspiration from Laura @ Kinder Kraziness. There were a lot of neat ideas out there, but I decided I liked this one the best, and I already had the 5-drawer Sterilite thingies. I sorted my crayons a bit differently than Laura and I made my own labels (which you can download below). This is the final result:
I gave each color its own drawer, except I combined black, white, and gray. That left me with one extra drawer which I’m using to store broken crayons for projects such as these:
Make Melted Crayon Art Using Crayon Shavings from Hands On: As We Grow
Melted Crayon Dot Art from Helping Little Hands
Melted Crayon Art from The Full Moxie
Homemade Crayon Gifts from Holding the World in a Paper Cup
You can download your own color labels by clicking the image below. I’ve included 3 different sizes. Use them for crayons, markers, paper, cardstock, legos……..
And here are some other neat crayon organization ideas I found and thought I’d share with you:
Buckets from The Clements Crew
Tin Cans from Simply Crafty
Baby Food Jars from Monkey See, Monkey Do
Shoe Organizer from Fun For First
Baskets from Play-Based Classroom
Muffin Tin from Thrifty Fun