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
I’m linking up just after you over at Our Simple Country Living. I love this idea!! This organizational storage idea for crayon will double for character training too. You know, when a child doesn’t want to put it in the correct drawer. You can also teach colors to real little ones. Since I don’t have little ones any longer (and I just got rid of the crayons)I will save this idea for grandkids in the future. I love those storage drawers for all sorts of organizing.
Ohhhh… I love this!! We are in the midst of major crayon overload and this is a great way to get it under control. Thanks for sharing!! 🙂
lovely stickers and soooo many uses 🙂
Great way to store and organize.
Curious how it works for you. Do these drawers sit on the table? They get one crayon at a time?
When all the kids are at the table we pull them off the shelf and put them on the table. It it’s just one or two kids they can grab a few crayons and take them to the table. Or we can take the drawers completely out of the frame and put them on the table.
Great idea. Thanks for sharing the printables.
Have a great Friday,
Sherry
What a great idea! My oldest son would have LOVED something like this when he was a child. He is my organized one, lol!
I love organization so anything that makes finding it and putting it away easier is awesome in my book.
I would love for you to link this up to my “Making Your Home Sing Monday” meme on Monday, if you’d care to join us! If not, that’s fine too! 🙂
I definitely will! Thanks for letting me know about your link up!
Oh my. I popped onto your blog to leave a comment, got distracted and then left for several hours. Came home and found you sitting on my laptop, lol! What a pleasant surprise!
Thank you so much for linking up to “Making Your Home Sing Monday” today!
What a great idea! I’ll be checking out your other links for crayon organization.
I love the labels! Great idea to keep things organized! I have a newer link party and would love if you would come on over and share your post or social media sites. http://designeddecor.com/talkin-about-thursday-link-party-5/
DeDe@DesignedDecor
Thanks so much! I will definitely check out your link party and join up next week. I also added it to my blog party list!
Awesome idea. I’ll be sharing it with my friends who have children younger than mine. 😉
This is such a great idea to keep track of crayons. 🙂 It seems I’m always finding broken crayons laying around.
(stopping by from Deep Roots at Home)
what cute labels! I use these white drawer sets for many of our school supplies, too. And I have one just for the broken crayons. I sense an arts&crafts project coming on very soon!
Thank you for sharing these today.
Great idea!!
I have been wanting to do this with my husbands Legos for a while, so thanks for offering these! Glad you shared at Mom’s Library!
Wanted to let you know I will be featuring you on Mom’s Library this week!
Loving it! Anything that helps my organizational skills to grow is a blessing to me! Thanks for linking this up.
What a neat idea! I’ve been battling the crayon mess for years myself!
I love this idea. We’ve got crayons and markers all over the place in various bins, bags and drawers. I’ll be heading to The Dollar Tree for those 6 drawer containers. Great idea!
I teach middle school Spanish and was wondering if you have an editable copy of the color words. I’d like to make them in Spanish but I like your frames and set up.
Thank you,
Laura
Hi Laura – Unfortunately I don’t. I made the labels as images in PicMonkey and then inserted them into a document, so the words can’t be edited.
How did u stick the labels to the draws. I was just wondering
I use clear packing tape. I put a piece of clear packing tape over the entire label.